Can anybody help with identifying this regiment?

Sundew

I'm hoping that some of you might be able to shed some light on the regimental badge on this photo.

I found this photo recently in a small box in my Grandmother's attic.
My Granduncle (her eldest brother) served with the 1st Btn of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and whilst we have his service medals we have no known photograph of him. He was KIA! I had hoped that these were Munster Fusiliers soldiers, but the badges seem to resemble a Dublin Fusiliers Badge.

My Gran also had a good friend who served in an English regiment so I'm wondering if somebody might be able to identify the badge as an Irish regiment. Sorry I know it's pretty hard to get a good closeup but any commentary on the photo would be welcome!

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johnny_doyle

the collar badge for the 2 outside chaps looks like a Ubique badges used by the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery. Don't think RDF had the scroll bit at the bottom.

With helmets on, likely to be 1916 onwards for this photo.

kabakuyu

The man in the centre could be RMF,he appears to have collar grenade badges worn by Munster officers, if you could post up your G/U details I or Johnny D can look up the Irish news paper archives and unit histories for a photo.

Sundew

It would seem from your posts that this photo is not of my Grand-Uncle if it's post 1916.
My GrandUncle was Private John Clohessy, 3856 and he was killed in action on the 21st August 1915 in Gallipoli!

The photo was originally one of those photo postcards (in French) and was cut to size to fit in a cigarette box! So might this indicate the photo was taken in France?

johnny_doyle

The guys in the photo are all officers so definitely not John Clohessy unfortunately.

John Clohessy appears to have landed in Gallipoli only a few weeks before his death (1/8/1915).

Sundew

johnny_doyle wrote: »

The guys in the photo are all officers so definitely not John Clohessy unfortunately.

John Clohessy appears to have landed in Gallipoli only a few weeks before his death (1/8/1915).

So I have a mystery on my hands. Who is the photo of and why did it end up in my Grandparents attic

Johnny do you still think the middle guy in the photo is an officer from The Munster's?

That's a new piece of information about my GrandUncle only being out there for a few weeks before his death. I was assuming that he had been there since April. I don't think I have his enlistment date. Is there any way of getting this?

johnny_doyle

afraid my eye sight isn't good enough to confirm if the collar badges of the middle officer are RMF or not.

There are no other records I can see for John Clohessy to give an indication of his enlistment. Sorry.

Is there anything on the back of the photo at all?