Anyone recognise this Uniform?

[fallen-archie]

[right-then-petal]

[suzieseaside]

The only thing in common there is a bicycle, not the uniform

[al**bear]

Looks more like a Naval uniform than a messenger

Fire Brigade  another possibility

[suzieseaside]

I would say definitely a naval petty officer's uniform, unless soppy softly can show proof of his claim.

Although you can only see half of the sleeve insignia in the OP photo, I can make out the bottom of an anchor at an angle, just like the one in the other pics I posted, so my money is still on astro's original suggestion.

[artful_dodgings]

I have just show your photograph to Agnes Fairweather-Low, a dear old lady of 95 who used to be a Land Army girl in WW2. She maintains that it's the gentleman's branch of the same organisation. She also says that part of the uniform was corduroy breeches (with gaiters), but since these aren't visible, we'll just have to take her word for it.

So it looks like you're all wrong !

[suzieseaside]

So why are there anchors on the sleeve?

[fallen-archie]

Since we have uncertainty I have dug up a couple of photos from the net. I have to say that the first one is remarkably similar to the OP, it is the uniform of a seaman attached to the Naval Inshore flotilla during WWII and it turns out that the chap shown was resident just down the road from the Lady who held the original photo for all those years. Coincidence it may be but as I have been unable to find a Queens messenger uniform which comes close to the one shown My money is firmly on the Naval link. Does anyone concur with this?

[suzieseaside]

You know I do, since those two pics are the same uniform as the two I  posted.

I also could not find anything similar worn by the Queen's Messengers

[fallen-archie]

The other thing that worried me is this, would the messenger in 1940 not have been a Kings  rather than Queens messenger? And yes I did see your picture but thought it was a single breasted jacket and the cap had a white rim. That said the combination shown in my previous post was driven by your finding but has both the same features and a direct link geographically.

[artful_dodgings]

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@fallen-archie wrote:

The other thing that worried me is this, would the messenger in 1940 not have been a Kings  rather than Queens messenger?

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Perhaps it was. Please see the enclosed link. There is an image of two passports. One marked 'King's Messenger' and the other marked the 'Queen's Messenger'. I assume the latter was employed when Liz ascended the throne in 1952. (Or upon her Coronation in '53).

http://www.passport-collector.com/her-majestys-queens-messengers-history-current-status/