Posted 8 years ago
endeeringl…
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this one's a total mystery to me. i can't find much of anything about the photographer and i have absolutely no knowledge on militaria. please feel free to add anything you know!
**Edit: solved! if anyone wants to chip in anything else, you're still free to do so!
(these images are NOT for use or re-posting anywhere unless permission by me is granted)
English Navy
looks like that matches up! thanks!
Four vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Seaflower:
HMS Seaflower was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in April 1782 that the Manche, under Jean Dornal de Guy, captured near Bencoolen on 29 September 1808.
HMS Seaflower was a 16-gun brig-sloop listed in 1809, and sold on 1 September 1814.
HMS Seaflower was a 4 gun cutter launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 20 May 1830 and broken up at Charlton, scrapping completed on 8 October 1866.
HMS Seaflower was an 8 gun training brig, launched at Pembroke Dockyard on 25 February 1873. Converted to a floating workship in January 1904, the ship was sold at Charlton on 7 April 1908.
That is a circa 1870's Royal Navy uniform. So he would have been assigned to the 4th H.M.S. Seaflower.
wow, so many seaflowers! thanks so much for pinpointing it celiene!
Royal Navy Cadet Uniform