On left photo, that flash could be the oval of 44th(Home Counties) Division. If he Cheshires in 44th Div, he'd be in 6th Bn up until 1942, they were a MG Bn , I think.
Hi and welcome to the forum....Are they actually the same person? They look a like but the chap on the right appears to be considerably older to me. Andy
thanks cheshire regiment makes sense as his dad was living in the Eccles area, as for the person i assume it is the same but i'm more interested in left picture as he personally signed when he sent it to my nan.