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The style of that cap is new to me.

Willem It was called a soft cap and didn't have the wired rim inside that keeps the caps rigid in normal circumstances.

Lee Crosbie Thank you!

This is the 1915 pattern issue trench cap. The soldiers nicknamed them 'Gor Blimey' caps. There is a good picture of the design - one made in blue for distribution to PoWs in Germany - at www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30093164 PS/1858 Private James Burton was the son of Frances Campbell Burton, of 66 Leam Terrace, Leamington, Warwickshire, and the late George Burton. CWGC. The PS prefix indicated that 16th Battalion Middlesex was, originally at least, a 'Public Schools' battalion. 16th(Service) Battalion (Public Schools) was originally sent to France with 100th Brigade in 33rd Division. They landed at Boulogne on 17th November 1915, but in late February 1916 were transferred to a support role with GHQ Troops, before landing with 86th Brigade in 29th Division on 25th April 1916 for the Battle of the Somme. There is some, believed genuine but somewhat indistinct, film footage of 16th Battalion Middlesex attacking the 'Hawthorn Ridge' on 1st July 1916 at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1eY7X343o //

Gor Blimey! Probably uttered, because they look far from being martial.

CWGC has this: BURTON, CLAUDE FITZGERALD Rank: Lance Sergeant Service No: 1916 Date of Death: 18/07/1916 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: South African Infantry "D" Coy. 1st Regt. Panel Reference Pier and Face 4 C. Memorial THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of the late Capt. George W. Burton, of Madras, Southern India, and of Naomi Elizabeth Burton (now Mrs. O'Connor), of "Calpe", Blackrock, Dublin. Educated at Sea Point School, Cape Town. On staff of National Bank of South Africa, Ltd. Also served in German South West Africa with Cape Peninsula Rifles and in Egypt.

UK Commonwealth War Graves database gives his full name as Claude Fitzgerald Sommerville Burton. Armorial Families of England shows that his grandfather was Henry Burton, Gentleman, b. 1817 ; d. 1894 who married Catherine Barnes {d. 1890), d. of Col. W. Somerville Mitchell, I.S.C. His father was George William Burton, Gentleman, b. 1856 ; m. 1894, Naomi, eld. d. of Richard Ward, of Howden, Yorkshire. 2 younger brothers: Cyril Leeds McHutcheon Burton, Gentleman, b. 1897 and Alfred Vere Ansted Burton, Gentleman, b. 1900. Res. —

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The photo looks strangely modern for the 1880s. It was the Burton (not Durton) Bros in Dunedin - "During the 1880s Alfred [Burton] travelled extensively through the South Pacific, photographing scenes of village life in Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Brothers

beachcomber australia I agree BC, I thought it looked rather modern for the rest of the images, but Burton's travelling dates match the rest of the album, cheers :)