Hi Bob, Any chance you can send me a scan or image and I can tell you what the cap badge is and his unit details. Better still if you can scan or image the whole picture there maybe other badges etc that throws more light on information. You would be surprised how many people just worry about (their) cap badges and when I see the picture there is wealth of other information in badges etc re Brigade, Divisions, Wound Stripes etc etc. Another trap not to fall into is that he came from a certain place and therefore he must belong to a certain unit. That does not apply, agreed there are a lot of cases of enlistment in late 1914 and very early 1915 where men elected to serve in the local (sic) regiment but it does not follow that just because he was local to a given area he served in a local regiment. Do you know when he was gassed?, he might have been part of the gassings that occurred during the early part Battle of Loos 1915. Best Regards Peter Fellowes ----- Original Message ----- From: "relder" <relder@tiscali.co.uk> To: <ENG-DURHAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:54 PM Subject: [ENG-DUR] Cap Badge > Don't know if anyone can help I have an old photo of my Gt Uncle who was gassed in WW1. His Cap Badge is Laurel Leaf either side of a Lamb, with what looks like a Crown above it. Anyone any idea what Regiment it would be, he was a local lad from Birtley Co Durham. I know Birtley is now in Tyne & Wear, in 1914 it was in Co Durham > Bob > > > ==== ENG-DURHAM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe send the command unsubscribe to > ENG-DURHAM-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) > or ENG-DURHAM-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > >