Imperial Service badge worn in a portrait of a lance corporal photographed in Gloucester

The 5½x 3¾ins waist length portrait of a lance corporal shows him wearsing the Imperial Seervice Badge introduced in 1910 for award  to members of the Territorial Force who volunteered to serve overseas in the Empire. It is not often seen in photographs. The lance  corporal wears a ab amunition belt and, although his buttons are of the general service pattern his shouder title shows him to be a memeber of a battalion whose name ends in TER. The portrait is on a grey photographer’s card of PAUL COE 39 EASTGATE GLOUCESTER. The card is cracked just below the photograph and there is a small tear left centre.  aug31/5