rolt968 Posted 26 May , 2016 Share Posted 26 May , 2016 Jackson - because he was the only other WW1 First Lord, but I don't know what he looked like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 26 May , 2016 Share Posted 26 May , 2016 I have a feeling that Fisher should be there. Dead centre, sitting at the back immediately left of Beattie? If it is, it's a very passive looking Fisher. No that's Cecil Burney. Fisher is another notable absentee. Whether he was just so persona non grata by then. No Jackson either. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 26 May , 2016 Share Posted 26 May , 2016 Is the man with the beard to the left of Jellicoe, Madden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 26 May , 2016 Share Posted 26 May , 2016 Is the man with the beard to the left of Jellicoe, Madden? It is. Interesting chap. Did a Collingwood and was constantly at sea. No shore appointments for the duration of the war, I think the only one of these folk to which that applies David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 27 May , 2016 Share Posted 27 May , 2016 Well having spent some time reading, with mounting incredulity, events on a Gallipoli thread where some of the good and the great of this Forum engaged in an increasingly surreal debate with a man who made the arguments of the Flat Earth Society and the people who say the moon landing was faked look cogent, it is good to get back to the calmer waters of WIT. We are in fact not just calmer but becalmed at the moment. Currently outstanding are Knotty's finely drawn officer, khaki's splendid bust and a handful of naval top brass. The latter has run its course and I will publish a list of names shortly David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 27 May , 2016 Share Posted 27 May , 2016 Well having spent some time reading, with mounting incredulity, events on a Gallipoli thread where some of the good and the great of this Forum engaged in an increasingly surreal debate with a man who made the arguments of the Flat Earth Society and the people who say the moon landing was faked look cogent, it is good to get back to the calmer waters of WIT. David It was a surreal event, worthy of its own chapter in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 27 May , 2016 Share Posted 27 May , 2016 Well having spent some time reading, with mounting incredulity, events on a Gallipoli thread where some of the good and the great of this Forum engaged in an increasingly surreal debate with a man who made the arguments of the Flat Earth Society and the people who say the moon landing was faked look cogent, it is good to get back to the calmer waters of WIT. We are in fact not just calmer but becalmed at the moment. Currently outstanding are Knotty's finely drawn officer, khaki's splendid bust and a handful of naval top brass. The latter has run its course and I will publish a list of names shortly David I missed out on the surreality (if there is such a word, maybe I've just invented it; hey Shakespeare could do it). I don't sense that my life is significantly emptier for that. I certainly haven't got a clue about the outstanding gentlemen (no change there then). I ran my fourth WIT? quiz for the gang at the over 75's today and got away with a lucky draw. I thought Bela Lugosi would slow them up but not a chance, and putting in Tommy Handley for people who actually heard ITMA on the radio was an own goal worthy of Eric Dier. Many thanks for all the suggestions and advice from my fellow inmates. I'll follow NF's suggestion and trawl the mighty archive of identification that we have for even more fiendish faces. We've talked about doing WIT? live before and it's harder than you would think; I think it is something to do with uncomfortable silences. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 Here are the answers on the Naval Painting. 14 of the 22 pictured fought at Jutland. From the left of the picture they are: Alexander-Sinclair, Cowan, Brock, Goodenough, Arbuthnot, Browning, Craddock, Hood, de Robeck, Pakenham, Tyrwhitt, Keyes, Burney, Beatty, Napier, Mountbatten, Evan-Thomas, Sturdee, Leveson, Madden, Jellicoe, Wemyss David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 Just a reminder of our two outstanding WITs (I think we can safely say clues are needed!) David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 My candidate had grave concerns over his duties but he left his mark all over Europe and beyond. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 My candidate had grave concerns over his duties but he left his mark all over Europe and beyond. John Which suggests Fabian Ware but he is much too young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 'Buster' (not his name) was seriously wounded in the GW khaki ps, the bust shows him in later years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 David You are in the right area John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 A better recognition angle khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 Is the bust Hemingway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 Is the bust Hemingway?Beat me to it sJ, I think you've got itDavid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 David You are in the right area John I'm puzzled. Everyone seems too old to be your chap. It's not MacReady, Baker, Blomfield or Lutyens, and I can't think of anyone else central to the war graves debate David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 I'm puzzled. Everyone seems too old to be your chap. It's not MacReady, Baker, Blomfield or Lutyens, and I can't think of anyone else central to the war graves debate David DavidYou've got him by default although you dismissed him,it is an early sketch by the artist Lieutenant Thomas Percival Anderson A.S.C., of Sir (Cecil Frederick) Nevil Macready,I think the likeness to the NPG photograph is pretty good John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 28 May , 2016 Share Posted 28 May , 2016 It certainly is. I've only seen pictures of 'Make Ready' as an old man. Schoolboy error Ridgus! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 29 May , 2016 Share Posted 29 May , 2016 Is the bust Hemingway? You got it right, that's Ernest Hemingway, congratulations khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 29 May , 2016 Share Posted 29 May , 2016 You live and learn - I had no idea he served. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 29 May , 2016 Share Posted 29 May , 2016 He was a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy, and was wounded in action. See his book "Death in the Afternoon." Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 29 May , 2016 Share Posted 29 May , 2016 Thanks Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 29 May , 2016 Share Posted 29 May , 2016 One of many who gave up their residence so that it could become a convalescent home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 29 May , 2016 Share Posted 29 May , 2016 Siegfried Sassoon described his lodgings as 'very much like paradise', but a former resident later recalled seeing a notice to the effect that "Officers are requested not to throw custard at the walls." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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