Hi Janet! Wow, you've done so much research on my behalf while I was off on my holidays all week - thank you :)
Joseph and Penelope were definitely both English, as your digging has told you, so if this is them, it definitely isn't a Canadian uniform. Their oldest son (born 1888) moved to Canada sometime in the 1910s/20s, though -we've had contact with his family through ancestry.co.uk. So could they be photos sent home by Henry after his emigration? But would he have joined the Canadian army so soon after emigrating? So many questions thrown up by the discovery of old photos, eh! You're right, it really is addictive!
The plot thickens...
Weird to think that Joseph and Penelope had a servant - their youngest child was my great-grandmother, who was about as far away from being able to keep servants as could be! She definitely married down!
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Joseph and Penelope were definitely both English, as your digging has told you, so if this is them, it definitely isn't a Canadian uniform. Their oldest son (born 1888) moved to Canada sometime in the 1910s/20s, though -we've had contact with his family through ancestry.co.uk. So could they be photos sent home by Henry after his emigration? But would he have joined the Canadian army so soon after emigrating? So many questions thrown up by the discovery of old photos, eh! You're right, it really is addictive!
The plot thickens...
Weird to think that Joseph and Penelope had a servant - their youngest child was my great-grandmother, who was about as far away from being able to keep servants as could be! She definitely married down!