A lot of these units came from the state National Guard units (not as we think National Guard today) and most of the Rainbow Divisision was made up of these units - I have a photo of the 151st Machine Corps group in the Rainbow Division. delilah evans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane wynne" <thewynnes@gmail.com> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] 3 photos of soldiers | On 15/06/07, George Smith <airforce@localdial.com> wrote: | > I don't think any are of the Machine Gun Corps as they all appear to be | > wearing Spurs which would indicate to me the are all from different | > regiments of cavalry. | | My grandfather enlisted in the Dorsetshire yeomanry. However, he ended | up in the infantry as I believe cavalry/yeomanry units were not viable | throughout WW1 | | So your relatives could also have started in such units and been | transferred. I have a similar picture of my grandfather, taken when he | first volunteered in similar uniform (especially the puttees) but none | taken later during the war. | | Diane | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |