My Thanks to everybody who replied to my posting. I'll get round to thank you all personally later. More or less everybody has asked for a higher resolution scan. I scanned the originals at 1200 dpi and that is what I put on line although I did resize them from 941x1543 to 297x480. As requested I rescanned the badge area and the highest I could do it was 12800dpi but they come out blurred. I'm obviously doing something wrong. I've re scanned them at 4800dpi and all picture are online in their original size. The cap bage is also in its original size and a reduced size of approx 1024 x 581 Tried the buttons and they were worse than the badges. www.mylancashireroots.co.uk/baldwin_text.htm Many thanks again Michael

Hi Michael, As Tom says, the clincher is indeed the cap badge and with the enhanced resolution, there is no doubt that picture no 3 is of a man in the Machine Gun Corps..... Regards H. Daniel Secretary, OVLH&HS www.ovlhs.co.uk huw@ovlhs.co.uk Michael A Lonsdale wrote: > My Thanks to everybody who replied to my posting. I'll get round to > thank you all personally later. > > More or less everybody has asked for a higher resolution scan. > > I scanned the originals at 1200 dpi and that is what I put on line > although I did resize them from 941x1543 to 297x480. > > As requested I rescanned the badge area and the highest I could do it > was 12800dpi but they come out blurred. I'm obviously doing something wrong. > > I've re scanned them at 4800dpi and all picture are online in their > original size. The cap bage is also in its original size and a reduced > size of approx 1024 x 581 > > Tried the buttons and they were worse than the badges. > > www.mylancashireroots.co.uk/baldwin_text.htm > > Many thanks again > Michael > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Hi Michael, As I mentioned in my last post and I think will all now agree that picture 3 is the Machine Gun Corps. Thanks for the enlarged pictures. This is where my well known trait of 'Jumping In' comes to the fore............again. Picture 2 is NOT that of Royal Artillery [RHA or RFA] as I at first offered. It is very tempting to take a peek at the shoulder title and like to think 'is that last letter a G' ? if so what is the first or preceding letters ?. Picture 1 is also tempting, though I think the belt might be a 'Studio Prop'. I have had my head in my copy of Cox's 'Military Badges of The British Empire 1914-18' and freely admit that with every turn of a page I could find at least a couple of likely offerings for both Picture 1 and 2. So apart from to say with utmost certainty that picture 3 is the MGC picture 1 and 2 remain, for the moment, a mystery. Regards Peter Fellowes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael A Lonsdale" <mail@michaellonsdale.co.uk> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] 3 photos of soldiers > My Thanks to everybody who replied to my posting. I'll get round to > thank you all personally later. > > More or less everybody has asked for a higher resolution scan. > > I scanned the originals at 1200 dpi and that is what I put on line > although I did resize them from 941x1543 to 297x480. > > As requested I rescanned the badge area and the highest I could do it > was 12800dpi but they come out blurred. I'm obviously doing something > wrong. > > I've re scanned them at 4800dpi and all picture are online in their > original size. The cap bage is also in its original size and a reduced > size of approx 1024 x 581 > > Tried the buttons and they were worse than the badges. > > www.mylancashireroots.co.uk/baldwin_text.htm > > Many thanks again > Michael > > > ------------------------------- > 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