What uniform?

[Lindad]

Can anyone tell me what this uniform is please?

www2.
tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=lindut&view=63&pid=26&photoindex=1&rand=37476"]http://www2.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=lindut&view=63&pid=26&photoindex=1&rand=37476

I thought my Uncle was in the Royal Navy... but this looks for like an Army uniform, doesn't it?

Thanks!

[get2BJ]

Hi,

Just tried your link and it asks for a password to enter the site.

Brenda

[Lindad]

Ah! Guess I'm not gonna be able to get an asnwer to this one then, unless I publish my password which sort of defeats the object of having one.


Thanks anyway!

[get2BJ]

Is it a photograph you want us to see? Can you not post it on here by copying and pasting from your web pages? I'm intrigued now, I used to be in the Army!

Brenda

[Lindad]

Sorry... I have no web pages other than my Tribal Pages website. Am reasonably computer literate, but have never worked out what everyone means when they say what you just have!

[Patrisia]

This is according to Rod.....

Upload a picture file to your own web space or web page.- max 750 pixels

Use your browser to go to that page.
Hover over the picture, and right click the mouse
On the drop down list, click on "Properties"
A window pops up on screen
Drag your mouse over the Address (URL)
hold down CTRL key and tap C (that's the same as "copy"
(it will look something like this: http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/graphics/group3-t250.gif

Then when posting a message... select the "Insert Image" icon (It looks like a little mountain with a sun - a picture)

A window pops up asking for that URL
Hold down the CTRL key and tap the "v" key (that's the same as "paste")

and OK
and then this happens... the picture appears in your message



.....and it works!

[Lindad]

I understand all of the above except:



Upload a picture file to your own web space or web page.- max 750 pixels
What web space or web page?!

[Patrisia]

I understood you already have it on your web space at www2.
tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=lindut&view=63&pid=26&photoindex=1&rand=37476"]http://www2.tribalpages.com/tribe/b...ex=1&rand=37476
So ignore the bit about uploading it and just right click on the image, as it says and carry on from there.

[Lindad]

That's exactly what I did (without having read Rod's instructions) but it isn't allowing people to bypass the password. In a way, it's nice to know that my Tribal Pages site is so secure!

If anyone is an expert on uniforms, maybe they could let me know and I'll email them a copy of the image!!

[get2BJ]

Lindad

Sorry, not as simple as copy and pasting - I've spent the last 15 mins trying to get a picure on here without success.



http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:S4I1uxpSZRUJ:imagesoftheworld.org/london/


I managed to follow the instructions from Patrisia (...ish! I brought my daughter in on the act). Anyone viewing will have to click on the above link to see Big Ben!

Brenda

[Lindad]

Thanks Patrisia!! Have emailed you a copy of the image...

[Patrisia]

Hope this works!

It looks like an Royal Army Service Corps shoulder flash

http://www.patrisiacarrington.dsl.pipex.com/pac/trevordutton.jpg

[Lindad]

Thanks again Patrisia! I shall await the collective wisdom of the BG Forum!


I guess Trevor could have been in the Army for his National Service (he would have been aged 18 in 1942) and then joined the Royal Navy after the war... I gather he was in the RN at least until the mid-1950s. I had just always thought that men were either 'Army', 'Navy' or Airforce' and that they didn't tend to swap services.

[Patrisia]

Sorry, not as simple as copy and pasting - I've spent the last 15 mins trying to get a picure on here without success.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:S4I1uxpSZRUJ:imagesoftheworld.org/london/
I managed to follow the instructions from Patrisia (...ish! I brought my daughter in on the act). Anyone viewing will have to click on the above link to see Big Ben! BrendaI'm not sure if you can do it from there, some clever clogs like Mythology will correct me, I'm sure.
The only way I managed to do it the first time, was with very patient tuition from Mythology - words of one syllable! - to upload an image on to my site, and then followed Rod's instructions.
Easy when you know how! ;)

[Patrisia]

I guess Trevor could have been in the Army for his National Service (he would have been aged 18 in 1942) and then joined the Royal Navy after the war... I gather he was in the RN at least until the mid-1950s. I had just always thought that men were either 'Army', 'Navy' or Airforce' and that they didn't tend to swap services.Can't answer that one, all my lot were either Army or Navy. I'm sure some of our Services experts will come up with something.

Glad to have been of help.

[get2BJ]

Thanks, I am still trying to get a pic from My Documents/My Pictures onto a preview post and I am still getting nowhere.

Linda, I have a picture of my dad in uniform from his National Service days in the 50s - his hair looks exactly like that in your picture - Brylcreemed to within an inch of its life! Definitely is a Royal Army Service Corps flash on his shoulder, but I don't know from which year.

Brenda

[Lindad]

OK, thanks for that. Both of his brothers were in the Army, so I guess he followed them when he was initially called up. It just surprised me as I knew that he was in the Navy later and so had assumed he would have been in the Navy duirng the war too... Obviously not!

[Raphael]

Can anyone tell me what this uniform is please?

http://www2.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=lindut&view=63&pid=26&photoindex=1&rand=37476

I thought my Uncle was in the Royal Navy... but this looks for like an Army uniform, doesn't it?

Thanks!
Hello Lindad,
I have not seen the whole of the answers yet to your question, but I think if it looks loke an Army Uniform, it will be that of the Maritime Regiment, which manned guns on supply ships during the war.

Someone may find a link to this Regiment to help further.
Best Wishes
Raphael

[Lindad]

Thanks Raphael. I guess that would make sense.

[Raphael]

Hello Lindad,

If it looks like a Army uniform
It is most likely to be The Maritime Regiment "nick named "Maritime AcK Ack"

They were used to defend merchant vessels, which were fitted with heavy machine guns, Bofores & Oerlikon machine guns. (fogive the spelling) must look it up some time, its a long time since I last saw them. :-))

Check this link which may lead you to further details

http://www.ra39-45.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/maritime/index.html

Hope this helps

Kind regards
Raphael
UK & Germany

[Lindad]

Thanks again.