neverforget Posted 5 March , 2015 Share Posted 5 March , 2015 He is Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. Correct. Killed 1917. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Friedrich_Karl_of_Prussia_%281893%E2%80%931917%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 5 March , 2015 Share Posted 5 March , 2015 Struggling to find the man from uncle amongst non-German Aristocrats flying planes in WW1. I`ll chuck in another royal K.I.A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 5 March , 2015 Share Posted 5 March , 2015 Struggling to find the man from uncle amongst non-German Aristocrats flying planes in WW1. You may have recognised the French uniform, NF. So, was he: a Bourbon pretender; an Orleanist pretender; a Bonapartist pretender; or a fourth thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 5 March , 2015 Share Posted 5 March , 2015 He looks American UG, is it Norman Prince of the Lafayette Escasdrille ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 No takers for my bushy beard? Well he was a tsarist and competence doesn't seem to have been his middle name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Is it Trupp. Czar Nicholas' lackey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 No takers for my bushy beard? Well he was a tsarist and competence doesn't seem to have been his middle name...Alexander Samsonov, commander of the Russian Second Army?Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 He looks American UG, is it Norman Prince of the Lafayette Escasdrille ? Yes indeed. You have seen through my clumsy attempt at bamboozlement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Is it Trupp. Czar Nicholas' lackey? Alexander Samsonov, commander of the Russian Second Army? Ron No, neither of them, I'm afraid. He was kicked upstairs when Brusilov took over Cheers Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 No, neither of them, I'm afraid. He was kicked upstairs when Brusilov took over Cheers Colin Is he General Aleksey Nikolaevich Kuropatkin? "He planned a night attack which included setting up batteries of searchlights to blind the German defenders. Unfortunately for his men, on being sent over the top, they were silhouetted and suffered thousands of casualties." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Is he General Aleksey Nikolaevich Kuropatkin? "He planned a night attack which included setting up batteries of searchlights to blind the German defenders. Unfortunately for his men, on being sent over the top, they were silhouetted and suffered thousands of casualties." No - but incompetence seems to have been quite common in tsarist Russia, compounding the chronic lack of junior officers .. I've now seen that the English Wikipedia is kinder to my man than my German sources, not mentioning - for example - his part in the Gorlice-Tarnòw Offensive and the great retreat of 1915 (assuming my German sources are correct). Here is a more formal portrait: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 No - but incompetence seems to have been quite common in tsarist Russia, compounding the chronic lack of junior officers .. I've now seen that the English Wikipedia is kinder to my man than my German sources, not mentioning - for example - his part in the Gorlice-Tarnòw Offensive and the great retreat of 1915 (assuming my German sources are correct). Here is a more formal portrait: image29a.jpeg Is he Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Is he Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov? Yes that's the one! This corresponds more to what I've read in German: https://books.google.de/books?id=TogXVHTlxG4C&pg=PA957&lpg=PA957&dq=nicolai+yudovich+ivanov&source=bl&ots=OpCu7hpgX6&sig=-RypYy8ZOLXgGpc4oniaN5JMvVY&hl=de&sa=X&ei=DoH5VJGbEYT6UqG9gfgG&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=nicolai%20yudovich%20ivanov&f=false Cheers Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 I`ll chuck in another royal K.I.A.nj.jpg Is he Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 No need for any clues. Spot on first time, uncle. Another somewhat gruesome twist; http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog/1455801/prince-oleg-konstantinovich-romanov-casualty-of-world-war-one/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Continuing the Royal sub-theme: this King was a colonel in the Austrian cavalry during the Great War. He was also a Prime Minister, and a President. Who can he be ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 I don't generally do this but this but who do you reckon this lad is? He is very well known. Cheers. Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 He was born in 1932 in Derbyshire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Continuing the Royal sub-theme: this King was a colonel in the Austrian cavalry during the Great War. He was also a Prime Minister, and a President. Who can he be ? ? ? Great clues, UG but I just can`t find anyone yet who ticks all those boxes, and believe me, I`ve tried! I`m afraid I`m stumped on Tom`s lad too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Great clues, UG but I just can`t find anyone yet who ticks all those boxes, and believe me, I`ve tried! Dito. The bling looks familiar, particularly the double eagle and the flying eagle, but I can't pin them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Great clues, UG but I just can`t find anyone yet who ticks all those boxes, and believe me, I`ve tried! I`m afraid I`m stumped on Tom`s lad too. Saying he was a King is not a cryptic clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 Dito. The bling looks familiar, particularly the double eagle and the flying eagle, but I can't pin them down. He was Europe's only Muslim king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 King Zog of Albania? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 King Zog of Albania? Yes, that's him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 March , 2015 Share Posted 6 March , 2015 -Your last clue was a very generous one. Have we heard this poor fellow`s tale yet??? Served in the 60 th Infantry Regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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