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Is this a photo of Tolkien?

28 Feb, 2014 (edited)
2014/2/28 14:14:16 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Is this Tolkien?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sldj1

I don't remember ever seeing this photo before, but it is described as

"Location: New Street (old location of King Edward’s School) Birmingham, West Midlands B2 4NU
Image shows former-pupils of the school who served in the war, with J.R.R. Tolkien highlighted
Photograph courtesy of King Edward School"

Can anyone confirm it is Tolkien (it looks like him to me) ?

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Lokki

28 Feb, 2014
2014/2/28 14:40:31 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Looks like young Tolkien to me

I cannot confirm it though.

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Deagol

28 Feb, 2014
2014/2/28 15:44:13 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Given that he appears to be dressed as an enlisted man, I am doubtful.

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Lokki

28 Feb, 2014
2014/2/28 15:49:25 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Didn't he enlist as a second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1915?

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Deagol

28 Feb, 2014
2014/2/28 15:51:37 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Oops misread the caption. May be the King Edwards OTC before he left for Oxford, so circa 1910?

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Lokki

28 Feb, 2014
2014/2/28 15:55:42 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Look at this picture.

http://3rdsalfords.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-link-to-jrr-tolkien.html

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Lokki

28 Feb, 2014
2014/2/28 15:57:23 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Buttons are bright and not dark like these gents on the left have.
And the uniform is the same on both pictures.

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