Well I've just spent an hour trying to get an exact regiment on the family group with John Charles
Snell in it, but I cant find the regiment.
The picture is 1915-1916 I reckon by the age of the child known to be born in 1914.
The picture of him later in the dooeway of a house must be about 1919, as the child is bigger. He now has
Sergeant stripes.
The other army photos show a well travelled group of men, probably involved in fighting colonial wars with pictures from India and
Alexandria. I thought the picture above George
Snell could well be him again a few years before hand.
The picture of
Hannah Snell marked 1830 is no way so early. 1860s is the very earliest I could stretch to, and I reckon it's later by at least a decade more. I realise this may well mess up the judgement of who this is - but there's no way it's so old as 1830. There's an excellent article on dating photos at
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/learningcenters/default.aspx...There are some excellent clear pictures of military uniforms and I reckon if you post your thread in the military section then you should get some help as some of the pictures of belt buckles, lapels and sleeves and badge caps etc look very clear.
Once the regiments are identified it should be possible to get pretty exact dates on those various photos as the knowledge of what regiment was posted where is well preserved and even a lot of individual soldiers can be identified.
Good luck
Neil