Hello Stephen I do not know if there is a website to help identify regiments, but there are books that could help, I saw one that particularly mentioned cap badges. As far as I know, at the beginning of the war the men volunteered locally, but later on they often were sent to other areas to fill in vacancies in other regiments. A lot of WW1 records were lost by a bombing raid in WW2. There is an Army Museum in Preston, but this only covers certain regiments and there is the Lancs Fusiliers on in Bury. Why not try emailing the Blackpool Gazette. They have a page on Tuesday where they include requests from people searching for family contacts, such as yours. A lot of people have had success with this. Good luck Also your query re GRO. If you can find your man on Lancashirebmd then you mostly likely will find the full name including all Christian names. Olive

I've nothing to add to Olive's comprehensive reply, except to say that if you could put the photo on the web (on a blog site maybe, or Photosite) then direct us to the address, we could have a look at it and try to help with the identification. I've had some success doing this with many of my old photos - I've used the free Blogger site http://www.blogger.com If you want to have a look at mine to see how it works then go to http://curranconnections.blogspot.com/ Good luck! Janet C _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

> I do not know if there is a website to help identify regiments, but there > are books that could help, I saw one that particularly mentioned cap badges. Hello again, After reading your reply I searched for cap badges using google. I found this site: http://www.militarybadges.org.uk I could not get the pages to load with Netscape but it will load with Internet Explorer. I'm really confused! There are three badges which look identical and look like the one in my photo. They are: The West Yorkshire Regiment http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/badges/infan3.htm The King's Regiment (Liverpool) (1927-1950) http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/badges/infan9.htm and The 3rd (King's Own) Hussars (1920-1958) http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/badges/cava1.htm Why do three regiments share the same badge? Two of these have dates after WW1. There is no date on the photo so I don't know when it was taken. Perhaps this was taken some time after WW1? Can anyone help with this? Is their a military list I should subscribe to? Actually that reminds me, I received two copies of your e-mail; sent to ENG-LAN-FYLDE-L@rootsweb.com and eng-lan-fylde@rootsweb.com Are these separate groups? If so, what is the difference? I have joined groups for other counties that I have found ancestors in and I notice some of these groups end in "-L" whilst others do not; what does the "L" signify? Thanks, Stephen.