Those boots he's wearing look almost Russian or Turkish/Greek/Maltese.
The building in the background doesn't look British - again possibly same as boots? That looks like a Tumbril by the side of him - don't think we really had anything equivalent here like that, except perhaps on a farm - and he's not in a farmyard.
We're in fact talking of late 1920s/early 1930s when this pic was taken I reckon.
OH suggested possibly The Lancers on a foreign posting - but he looks 'at home' where he's standing.
Dorothy G
searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow
I don't think that he is wearing a british uniform, it looks like the kind of stuff Greta Garbos love interest would wear in one of her films, sort of Ruritanian.
So I wonder if he'd been abroad before this? IAs he's in Liverpool quite possible he had been. Or as was said - it's a stage set - but somehow I don't think so, it all looks too real - and that wagon is too real, let alone getting it on/off stage!
I wonder what theatre he was Manager of at the time. Looking at history of Liverpool could help.
Dorothy G
searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow
I don't think that he is wearing a british uniform, it looks like the kind of stuff Greta Garbos love interest would wear in one of her films, sort of Ruritanian.
That's a thought! Perhaps a Movie - with the backdrop and a fairly real wagon in the foreground..... he's certainly handsome enough - touch of John Gilbert about him
Dorothy G
searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow
Maybe your right in saying its a stage costume i dont know can't seem to find him we dont have his birth cert and this is as close as we have got to finding him in the 1911 census but still cant be sure its him for 100% but theres a lot of plus points
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