03 September 2024
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Join us for the September Family Tree Study Club meeting, at which Graham Bandy will be tutoring us in how to analyse period military photos more accurately
Have your contradicting information on a family military photo?? Have you been told its one thing, and then someone has come along and told you it’s something else?? Confused??
Fear not, help is at hand. Graham will guide you through the traps and pitfalls faced by the family genealogist trying to date photos to help work out as to whom it is.
Question such as…
Is that hat Australian?
Probably not
Are the Royal Horse Artillery the only ones who wear bandoliers and white lanyards?
Not at all
Is this from the Boer War?
Which one? There were two!
How can you date the same uniform whether it’s 1902, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918 or even 1928 or 1938?
Graham will show you how to date uniforms more accurately, by the subtle differences
These questions, and indeed many more will be answered; before your very eyes!
When & where?
The meeting will take place on Zoom, on Monday 16 September, 12.30pm (lunchtime). (UK time)
How to join the meeting
This presentation is part of the Study Club programme brought to you by Family Tree Plus.
The session is available three ways:
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Free to members of Family Tree Plus (join from just £5). Find out more
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Study Club sessions are also available to Family Tree magazine subscribers (print or digital editions) as part of their subscription. To find out how you can subscribe, see here.
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Sign up to the session for just £10, using the form below…
About the speaker
Graham has been collecting militaria since he was a small child, when he started pestering the family, and the aged Gt Uncles from WW1 and 2 for badges and ephemera.
He went on to serve in 2nd bn The Royal Anglian Regt for seven years after leaving school, followed by University and a Nursing degree.
After Nursing around the country for a time, he went back to the army and was commissioned as a Nursing Officer in QARANC, where he Nursed through the end of the former Yugoslavia crisis, Gulf War 2 and most of Afghanistan.
Before he left the forces, he had carved out a niche in identifying and dating photos, alongside his large WW1 and WW2 medical Living History Displays. This has led to appearances on WDYTYA, as an on-screen military expert, and in episodes of “Instruments of Death” for UKTV, amongst many other TV and film appearances.
Graham now spends his time writing books, and appearing at various Family History fairs around the country, helping people with their military “Brick Walls.” He can also be found appearing on various Society of Genealogists online lectures and courses. He also runs the Societies monthly Armed Forces Hour. When he has a moment, he can also be found on a number of Facebook Groups answering questions and decyphering old military records for people.
His new book about WW2 Nursing in the RAF, and an attachment to the SOE is on pre order with Pen and Sword books. Grahams previous title which covers dating and identifying old military photos is still available.
Graham lives with his wife in a small village in East Sussex, where they are slowing drowning under photos, ephemera, badges, a garden railway…and Warhammer.
He is a member of The Society for Army Historical Research, The Military Historical Society, The Churches Conservation Trust and also a member of the Sussex Archaeological Society. In his spare time, he is the chairman of the Heathfield History Society.
