Does anyone recognise the uniform and the location?

Hi everyone, this is my uncle, Frank Jennison, he passed away in 1960 so I never really knew him. I'm wondering what regiment he was in. The photograph isn't dated, from a close inspection of the lamp post near his cigarette it looks like Napoli. I have seen a picture n Google of "Photographers in Naples" which looks to be the same square (that photo is copyright so I cannot post it here for comparison. Be great if someone knew which Square/Piazza this is. His brother (my dad) Les Jennison was in the 2/7th Middlesex Regiment.

 

Hi,

No idea of the location and It’s very difficult to identify his regiment as the only means of doing so is via his cap badge which is blurred.

Coldstream Guards night fit the bill - but the only way of really knowing which regiment he served in is to apply to MOD for his service papers via this link -

Requests for personal data and service records: a detailed guide

Good Luck

Steve

 

JohnJenn - It certainly looks like a Coldstream capbadge. If so, your uncle would have been serving in either the 2nd or 3rd Battalions. According to the history of the Coldstream ('Second to None') the 3rd Battalion was at Pugliano near Naples in late November 1943, and the 2nd Battalion landed at Naples from Tunisia on 5 Feb 44. Good luck with your research. Was he a 2nd Lt as it looks as if he has one star on his epaulette?

 

There is no Officer with the surname Jennison listed in the “officers service history” pages of Howard & Sparrow CG history 1920/46.

Steve

 

1st Battalion Welch Regiment

In March 1945 the 1st Battalion was transferred to the 1st Guards Brigade, serving alongside the 3rd Grenadier Guards and 3rd Welsh Guards and replacing the disbanded 3rd Coldstream Guards, part of 6th Armoured Division, and remained with it until the end of the war.

 

Just for accuracy 3rd CG weren’t strictly “disbanded” (that came in 1959) but “merged” with 2nd CG and surplus personnel - mostly 3rd CG men who had been overseas either since pre war days or from the early days in the Western Desert - were repatriated to become the nucleus of 3rd CG at Hawick.

They absorbed newly trained recruits and embarked on a period of training following which they were intended to redeploy to the Far East in Autumn 1945 but as the war had ended they were posted to Palestine.

Steve

 

Thank you Tullybrone. I may do that sometime but I'm not next of kin. Still awaiting my dads records. I have a feeling my uncle was a private throughout WW2
Regards JohnJ

 

Thank you Steve. Although I have no proof I believe he was a private throughout WW2.

 

To be fair in my experience MOD don’t ask for a family tree when processing applications. I’ve applied for 2 uncles records where I’m not the immediate NOK.

Steve

 

As been dead 25 years anybody can ask for his records with a death certificate and £30