Leeds Army Regiment

[uncle mick]

Hello All. I have come across some photos of my father Frank wearing a uniform which looks like an army uniform. He also worked on the railways in Leeds for 47 years until 1970 but never mentioned being in any army unit.Can anyone help me in identifying the regiment? It would have been in or around Leeds.Thanks

[weenie]

to me that looks like a leeds rifle cap badge, but i could be wrong- looks similar to my grandfathers and fathers Weenie

[kango]

Although very blurred the chap on the left's badge looks like my late fathers Regiment the York and Lancaster.

[uncle mick]

My Dad never fought. He used to tell me how all the family came from a long line of cowards (I'm still one) who joined the railways so they did not have to go to war. Then he told me about driving USA troops about during WW2 giving him nylon stockings (no he didn't wear them) and big Cuban cigars

[The Parksider]

uncle mick wrote: Hello All. I have come across some photos of my father Frank wearing a uniform which looks like an army uniform. He also worked on the railways in Leeds for 47 years until 1970 but never mentioned being in any army unit.Can anyone help me in identifying the regiment? It would have been in or around Leeds.Thanks As Kango says it is blurred but it does look like my dad's Leeds Rifles cap badge.He joined the Leeds Rifles as a territorial so Frank may have done the same and that may be why he was never in the regular army.My dad joined as war broke out and went into the Royal Artillery where when in full uniform he was allowed to wear the Rifles badge instead of the field gun badge.That was always a puzzle as to why his cap badges in photos did not match his regimental badges i.e. RA and RWAFF.Eventually it was worked out and my guess is Frank was a Terror.