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email me if you find anyone you know, or have any suggestions as to year or whereabouts, any details welcome, original photographs are not my property and are not available, I can however send you my copy (300dpi)  -  meems@marylennon.co.uk
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I'm guessing this is WW1, as with all photos posted here, please email me if I'm wrong or you have any information regarding these photos.
meems@marylennon.co.uk

could be pre WW1 according to these gentlemen - TheGreatWarForum

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see first photo

could be pre WW1 according to these gentlemen - TheGreatWarForum
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on back - H.M.S. Edinburgh
Photographer - Studio Belfast

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some info from Graham Stewart, he thinks this is a Cadet unit possibly Church Lads Brigade or Boys Life Brigade as he believes 0030 is too, both taken around the 1920's/30's
Thank you Graham
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on back - hard to make out, looks like photographers name..
S. Lenne, Woincourt.

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Photographer - J. F. Gavin, Kildare
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see above right 0022


see suggestions for this photo on the Great War Forum

H.M.S. Kent - some details on The Great War Forum


Dublin no info - info re armoured car on The Great War Forum further information from Ernest McCall see here


both photographs found together at auction, no information, that 'could' be the same man middle row, right but the hat emblem is different

unidentified regiment?  The man sitting front right is Henry Patrick McCann - email - meems@marylennon.co.uk

Can anyone identify what ship these men would have been serving on?
This was possibly taken in Portsmouth or Southampton at the time out he outbreak of WW1.  The small sallow skinned man seven from the left is James Patrick McCann born Randalstown Co Antrim 1888 died 3 November 1940 on the HMS Patroclus.  He was my father’s uncle (my grandfather’s brother).  There were four boys and one girl in the family and their mother had died young and their father either couldn’t or wouldn’t look after them so the family was split up.  James tried to enlist in the navy in 1900 when he was 12 but was too young.  In 1903 (aged 15) he stole my grandfather’s baptism certificate and somehow made his way to Portsmouth where he enlisted under my grandfather’s name giving his age as 18.  He served in WW1 including the Battle of Jutland.  In 1920 he joined the RNFR and went to work on passenger liners.  At the beginning of WW2 he re-enlisted and because of his age (51) he was offered a desk job but asked to go back on the boats.  He was lost on the HMS Patroclus.  My grandfather received £2 10 shillings compensation. - Seamus McCann email - meems@marylennon.co.uk
Information relating to chancellorDublin.jpg photograph

Re the "Lost Photo" section, chancellor Dublin, It appears to be part of the R.I.C. Reserve Force during 1920/1. The Reserve Force is not the Black & Tans or Auxiliaries. The Reserve Force had a surgeon attached to them and the picture shows an ambulance which indicates that it may be the Reserve Force. The R.F. consisted of 2 x Sub Inspectors, 4 Head Constables, 200 men consisting of Sgts., Constables and Sub Constables. They travelled the length & breadth of Ireland helping local police in crowd control etc.
Ernest McCall

Thank you Ernest - Mary