Unknown soldier, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps – 1915. Photographer Sales Studios Ltd. Photograph courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron. 
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Unknown soldier, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps – 1915. Photographer Sales Studios Ltd. Photograph courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron.
Picture Stockton Archive 
Pauline Elsworth, does the photo of your great uncle Patrick and my grandad in their K.O.S.B uniforms still exist? We, his grandchildren, never saw grandad Casey and have no idea what he looked like as he died 1939 from old war wounds. If the photo exists would you please let me have a copy if possible? Picturestockton have my e-mail address. All the best, Derek.
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I was hoping you might know something of the photo of your Grandad and my Great Uncle Patrick, Derek Casey. My Auntie Mary knew your grandparents well. My Nana also lived in Housewife Lane then Danby Rd. Your Grandad was in the Kings Own Scotttish Borders at the time of the photo.
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I’m hoping some one reading this will have knowledge of old stockton. My grandads marriage certificate states he was in the K.O.S.B the date for his wedding 1917, having trouble tracing grandads army records so wondered if he could have gone to Scotland to join up. My own father maintains grandad also fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish civil war. I know of 4 men who fought in Spain 1936-38, all Stockton men although one was born in Thornaby. Grandad lived at 9 Housewife Lane at the time of his marriage. He married Beatrice Warhurst Kirk, and before his death they lived at 127 Swainby Rd. I am hoping that distant relatives or older people whose families lived in the areas mentioned may have some information on the Casey family.
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Check out photo ref. t8183 there are a lot of comments on there on the same subject. Help is available, get in touch with the team and they can put you in touch with me.
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He looks like my Grandfather who was in the Royal Army Medical Boys, he himself was hurt going to get someone, then was Honourably Discharged on the 12th August 1918. I”m trying to find out more about him but can”t get any where – any help would be great.
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I think the Cap Badge is the, WW1 British Royal Army Medical Corps cap badge. She swagger stick was sometimes loaned by the photographer for effect.
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Not strictly true Roy, they change from a Kings Crown to a Queens Crown and will change back to a Kings Crown if ever we get one. I was REME in the middle east when they changed the badges from a laurel leaf with tools on it and a crown on top to the Prancing Horse, Streak of lightening, ball and chain and the Crown on top. Over a long period of time all the vehicles were repainted with the new badge flags and Unit signs changed but the new badge did not filter down to the outposts of Empire. Some many months later I went to Cyprus and was presented with the new cap badge so it all settled until suddenly we had a new Queen. Panic stations. Every badge, insignia of rank, unit signs and flags plus every bit of equipment with a badge or sign had to be changed or repainted, and this was for every Regiment Corp or Unit of all the forces. The Kings Crown has a domed top, the Queens Crown has a dimple in the top. It came to pass we had to once more hand in all badges and receive the new ones with the dimpled crown which I still possess. I have looked at the photo and believe the leather belt was exchanged for a large webbing belt during the Great War. The swagger stick to my knowledge was discontinued during the war and brought back in the 1920″s. I think it could be 1914 regular army, the army that went to France in the first year.
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If the crown on the hat badge could be identified then this would narrow the years down, the crown changed with each monarch.
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Hi Dorothy – As the earlier comments indicate this young soldier is dressed in the standard battle-dress uniform worn by the British Army at the time of the Great War – it was still worn up to the outbreak of the WWII although most regiments were by then wearing the shorter jerkin type battle dress and with gaiters not puttees. The cap-badge is definitely that of the Royal Army Medical Corps – showing the rod and serpent.
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I would be interested to know what uniform the unknown soldier is wearing in the photograph. I have a relative wearing a similar one which I am trying to identify.
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Mr R Harbron 1915 My father volounteered in the heady patriotic days of August 1914 at the T.A. Barracks in Church Road Stockton-on-Tees, which was besieged by “would be soldiers” in a war that “would be over by Christmas”. An apprentice blacksmith in Ropners Shipyard Yard, he signed on for the Royal Engineers but was turned away as he was only 16, as were dozens of other potential recruits, some 15. He reapplied on his 17th birthday and joined the R.A.M.C , he said the first thing we all did when we got our uniforms was go the the local photographher, who set up either in the camp or nearby where this photo was taken. He received leg wounds and was honourably discharged in 1918. During the Second-War he served as a War-reserve Special-Constable
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