Knotty Posted 9 April , 2016 Share Posted 9 April , 2016 I forgot to check in the old WIT again, it's an age thing isn't it. That's rhetorical John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 9 April , 2016 Share Posted 9 April , 2016 (edited) Brothers in arms. Their sister also shared their pre-war occupation. EDIT> As pensmiths, their relative fame could be gauged by length of moustache. (This would include their sister.) A sample below of the petit- tosh`s work: (Easy enough to Google-search, I know, but I trust you not to of course.) "YE who reckon with England– Ye who sweep the seas Of the flag that Rodney nailed aloft And Nelson flung to the breeze– Count well your ships and your men, Count well your horse and your guns, For they who reckon with England Must reckon with England's sons. Ye who would challenge England– Ye who would break the might Of the little isle in the foggy sea And the lion-heart in the fight– Count well your horse and your swords, Weigh well your valour and guns, For they who would ride against England Must sabre her million sons. Ye who would roll to warfare Your hordes of peasants and slaves, To crush the pride of an empire And sink her fame in the waves– Test well your blood and your mettle, Count well your troops and your guns, For they who battle with England Must war with a Mother's sons." Edited 9 April , 2016 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 9 April , 2016 Share Posted 9 April , 2016 Osbert (left) and Sacheverell (right) Sitwell? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 9 April , 2016 Share Posted 9 April , 2016 (edited) Osbert (left) and Sacheverell (right) Sitwell? Ron Not the Sitwells Ron. Both served as infantrymen. The more hirsute of them eventually becoming a captain, and also being knighted by the King. EDIT> A sample of big brother`s work: "At last, at last we turned and stood– And Marne's fair water ran with blood; We stood by trench and steel and gun, For now the indignant flight was done. We ploughed their shaken ranks with fire, We trod their masses into mire; Our sabres drove through their retreat As drives the whirlwind through young wheat. At last, at last we drove them back Along their drenched and smoking track; We hurled them back, in blood and flame, The reeking ways by which they came. By cumbered road and desperate ford How fled their shamed and harassed horde! Shout, Sons of Freemen, for the day When Marne so well avenged Cambrai!" Edited 9 April , 2016 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 9 April , 2016 Share Posted 9 April , 2016 NF Struggling with this one,but I think I have worked out they are not from the UK John PS I have read the poem,but thought it was much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 9 April , 2016 Share Posted 9 April , 2016 Charles and Theodore Roberts. Canadian authors David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Charles and Theodore Roberts. Canadian authors David Top marks, David. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._D._Roberts At his death, Charles was regarded as Canada's leading man of letters. Besides his own body of work, he is also called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Hope you enjoyed the whiskers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 How about this nutcase??? Up until 2002, you could say he had a connection with Leicester City F.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Gilbert the Filbert, Colonel of the Nuts in a1915 revue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Gilbert the Filbert, Colonel of the Nuts in a1915 revue. There speaks a man who knows his nuts. Basil Hallam Radford. Well spotted, Ghazala. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Hallam Unfortunately met his end by falling three thousand feet from an observation balloon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 How about this nutcase???br.jpg Up until 2002, you could say he had a connection with Leicester City F.C. What a coincidence. He was going to be my next post, although a different picture. A self inflicted wound for as he turned down a parachute for the ascent. The others in the balloon were uninjured David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Morning Missed having a go at Basil Radford, NF was the sister you mentioned in post #4255 Jane Roberts McDonald ? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Morning Missed having a go at Basil Radford, NF was the sister you mentioned in post #4255 Jane Roberts McDonald ? John Indeed it is John. Coincidentally, like Basil Radford, she also died from the result of a fall. http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ceww/id/377 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 What a coincidence. He was going to be my next post, although a different picture. A self inflicted wound for as he turned down a parachute for the ascent. The others in the balloon were uninjured David Sorry about that David. It`s happened to me more than once before too strangely enough. Who did you have lined up next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Referendum time, ladies and gentlemen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Stumped in Dorset on that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 What a coincidence. He was going to be my next post, although a different picture. A self inflicted wound for as he turned down a parachute for the ascent. The others in the balloon were uninjured David He was lucky he was offered a parachute David. The pilots of the RFC were refused them as it might induce cowardice and tempt them to bail out before combat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_Fielding Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Something to do with the 1916 1917 Australian conscription referendums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Something to do with the 1916 1917 Australian conscription referendums? No. Very much a European thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Looks like a young A. Einstein. Swiss patent clerk apparently........ Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Looks like a young A. Einstein. Swiss patent clerk apparently........ Pete Not Einstein. The clues here are: (1) European; and (2) referendum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Indeed it is John. Coincidentally, like Basil Radford, she also died from the result of a fall. http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ceww/id/377 Interesting link NF. Also went by "Nain" Roberts. Elizabeth is the subject of Hilary Thompson's "The Unexamined Voices of the Poet Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald" in DALHOUSIE REVIEW 73.3 (1993): 354-66. Do you know why known as "Nain"? I am sure there must be thousands of Nain Robertses in Wales. Nain being the North Wales name for Grandmother. Roberts is also a good North Wales name. But I can't see a Welsh connection. Was there one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Not Einstein. The clues here are: (1) European; and (2) referendum. May I remind you that we are forbidden on this forum, from discussing, mentioning, alluding to, and therefore I assume writing the word you have written under heading 2). The codeword to be used instead is Mrs. B's Birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 May I remind you that we are forbidden on this forum, from discussing, mentioning, alluding to, and therefore I assume writing the word you have written under heading 2). The codeword to be used instead is Mrs. B's Birthday. Luckily, my post has only a notional link to Mrs. B's Birthday and therefore cannot be seen as in any way contentious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 April , 2016 Share Posted 10 April , 2016 Got me puzzled this one UG. Is he linked to the Irish "troubles"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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