neverforget Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 How about his chap then??? Rose to the rank of captain and the commanded a Guards Regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 How about his chap then???mm.jpg Rose to the rank of captain and the commanded a Guards Regiment. I'm going to say Sadao Araki, Japanese military attache to Imperial Russia. Convicted of war crimes after the Second war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 I'm going to say Sadao Araki, Japanese military attache to Imperial Russia. Convicted of war crimes after the Second war. Not so, Uncle, but you`ve nailed the nationality alright. My bloke went into politics following a thirty year long military career. Neil Ruddock would be a clue for those with a keen mind.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 Not so, Uncle, but you`ve nailed the nationality alright. My bloke went into politics following a thirty year long military career. Neil Ruddock would be a clue for those with a keen mind.. Hideki Tojo - nicknamed 'Razor'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 The only one I can think of that commanded a guards regiment was the (later general) Yamashita. khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 Hideki Tojo - nicknamed 'Razor'. Tojo it is. Nasty piece of work altogether. http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 Been rather busy today so missed the postings above. Capt. C.M. Pritchard, South Wales Borderers Here he is on December 16th 1905: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Wales_team_for_the_Original_All_Blacks_match_December_1905_-_cropped.jpg Middle Row, First on left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 19 November , 2015 Share Posted 19 November , 2015 NF has introduced the theme of Japan. So, who is this ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 November , 2015 Share Posted 19 November , 2015 Been looking into Japanese serving in the British Army, and found a few, but after having a second look I'm not entirely convinced that he is Japanese after all, though he does tantalisingly look like he might be. I'm lost, as you will have probably gathered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 19 November , 2015 Share Posted 19 November , 2015 Been looking into Japanese serving in the British Army, and found a few, but after having a second look I'm not entirely convinced that he is Japanese after all, though he does tantalisingly look like he might be. I'm lost, as you will have probably gathered. He won the MC on 1 July 1916. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 19 November , 2015 Share Posted 19 November , 2015 NF has introduced the theme of Japan. So, who is this ? ? ? That is Major Percival, later Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival CB, DSO*, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL - noted for his failure during the Battle of Singapore in 1941/42: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Percival I would never have got him if I hadn't been reading about the battle on another website just before coming here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 19 November , 2015 Share Posted 19 November , 2015 That is Major Percival, later Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival CB, DSO*, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL - noted for his failure during the Battle of Singapore in 1941/42: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Percival I would never have got him if I hadn't been reading about the battle on another website just before coming here . Indeed so. Duff Cooper to WSC: " ... he cannot take a large view; it is all a field day at Aldershot to him. He knows the rules as well and follows them so closely and is always waiting for the umpire's whistle to cease-fire and hopes that when the moment comes his military disposition will be such as to receive approval." Unsually for a Lieutenant General, he was never knighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 How about the chap standing far right: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Claude Auchinleck? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Claude Auchinleck? Ron Yes indeed - he of the 62nd Punjabis. Who, then, might this be: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 How strange. He looks a bit like...... It couldn't be... The uniform....... Is there a massive Red Herring here UG? Are the last two pics also part of a theme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Are the last two pics also part of a theme? Yes, a theme has developed. This chap - Mons, First Ypres, Loos, Somme, Third Ypres, Cambrai ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 I am thinking of a later lot?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 ... Baltic Landeswehr ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 ... a seat in Churchill's Cabinet ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 ... Baltic Landeswehr ... Ah! Then the link is definitely the Desert! And this is a young Harold Alexander, later Earl Alexander of Tunis. The uniform really threw me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Ah! Then the link is definitely the Desert! And this is a young Harold Alexander, later Earl Alexander of Tunis. The uniform really threw me! Correct! And this chap ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Not sure. Is it Richard O'Connor (later General Sir)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Not sure. Is it Richard O'Connor (later General Sir)? No. This chap coined the phrase (about the Treaty of Versailles), "the Peace to end all peace". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 20 November , 2015 Share Posted 20 November , 2015 Ah. Then it is yet another Desert man. Archibald Wavell. Good pair of pics UG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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