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Photo 1891 Tigers Please contact Sandra at
treddy@ns.sympatico.ca or Bill Stratton at :- bill.stratton@ns.sympatico.ca This rare group photograph is of 76 soldiers of a company of the 1^st Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment which was taken in 1891/2 . The photo was taken outside the Wellington Barracks, Halifax, Canada. Apart from the fact that this is a great Victorian era photograph, it is very unusual in the fact that the soldiers are seen to be wearing the Canadian Winter Dress for that period. Bill and Sandra would be delighted to hear from anyone who can add any extra information about this photograph, or (more especially) can identify any of the soldiers.

Bill Stratton's wife's Grandfather, JOHN CARTER Born 06 March 1869 at BRANT BROUGHTON LINCOLNSHIRE, England, can be seen on the photograph. He is standing, top row 4th from left. John Carter served 7 years with the Leicestershire Regiment and settled in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. When the 85th Battalion C.E.F NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLANDERS was formed in 1915 John Carter also joined and served overseas until 1919.

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Photo CBATE 1 Please contact Harvey and Eileen Bates at:- bateshe@senet.com.au Harvey sent this great Victorian portrait of his Grandfather CHARLES BATES of the 1^st Battalion THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. Charles lived at MOUNTSORREL, Leicestershire, England. Charles Bates was born in 1866 and first volunteered to the Leicestershire Regiment at Loughborough in 1885 as a Bandsman. (He had played the E flat bass in the Mountsorrel Town Band since the age of 15.) Charles is pictured here (circa 1888) wearing the Leicestershire Regiment bandsmans uniform, his cap was the Glengarry type and the badge is one of the Glengarry cap badges that was issued to the soldiers of that Regiment between 1878 and 1881, but it was clearly still in use at that later date. Charles was to see action with his Regiment during the Boer War and fought at Ladysmith. He left the Regiment sometime after the Boer War but volunteered to his Regiment as a Territorial Force soldier of the 5^th Battalion.

Please see "Photo CBATE 2" on Photo page 102.

One of the Glengarry cap badges issued to the 17^th Regiment of Foot (Leicestershire) between (1878 and 1881. See Photo CBATE 1 above)

Photo MPERRE 1 Please contact Malcolm Perrement at:- perree@bigpond.com Malcolm sent in this great group photograph of soldiers of the ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. Malcolm's Father, REGINALD PERREMENT (born in 1902 at Norwich Norfolk) is within the ranks of these soldiers, but Malcolm is unsure of the locality or date of the photograph. Malcolm would very much like to have any new information about his Father's comrades seen in the photograph, or indeed any information about the photograph, and his fathers service in general. Malcolm is also looking for any information about his Father's brother, STANLEY PERREMENT who was a Regimental Sergeant Major in THE NORFOLK REGIMENT.

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