Children in Uniform
Cabinet Photographs
Young Rifleman
c. 1890
Carte de Visites
Boer War Era
Soldier's Son
c. 1900
Royal Marine Artilleryman
and His Military Family
c. 1900
With the exception of an over sized
bandoleer, this young man wears a perfectly
proportioned uniform of the Royal Fusiliers.
Was he the son of a serving soldier or a
young man who enlisted while still a boy?
Cabinet Photograph
c. 1895
Son of a Member of
the Imperial
Yeomanry
c. 1900
Little Sailors with Toy
Soldiers
c. 1890
Member of the
Boys Brigade
c. 1900
Bandsman
Rifle Volunteers
c. 1880's
Boy in Uniform
with Crimean War
Medals
c. 1890
Boys costumed for
celebrating the Relief
of Mafeking
c. 1900
London Church Lads NCOs
and Officer
c. 1900
John W. Davidson

Mounted Photograph
c. 1901
This fascinating photograph of a young
boy dressed as an officer of the Indian
lancer regiment and proudly mounted
on his pony is identified on the reverse
in a pencil inscription as John Westcott
Davidson. I have been unable to find
any historical reference to anyone one
or anything of that name with the
unusual exception of an automobile
dealership in Watertown, New York.

After pursuing the investigation
further I came to the possible
conclusion that this young man may
actually be John Waugh Davidson...
Priscilla Williams: "Wee Willie Winkie. It does sound like a soldier, doesn't it?"  Sgt. Donald MacDuff: "Aye." Priscilla Williams: "Then I'd be
Private Winkie!"  Sgt. Donald MacDuff: "Private Winkie it is. A full-fledged soldier of the Queen!"
                                                                                                                                                                                         from the 1937 film We Willie Winkie