Doug504 Posted 27 July , 2016 Share Posted 27 July , 2016 Thank you for your time and efforts folks, I know it's rather a long shot but it's such a shame many of these photographs remain anonymous. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 2 August , 2016 Share Posted 2 August , 2016 Has this lady been on? Sister of a GW personality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 Don't recognise her seaJane (so no change there then). Could we have a clue. Was her sibling a politician or a military person? David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 seaJane Is it Anna Buchan who was a novelist writing as O. Douglas. She was the sister of John Buchan the War Propaganda Bureau writer, who not only went on to pen The 39 Steps, he was also Director of Information 1917. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 Sorry David, only just come on site, but Knotty has it. Several of O. Douglas's books deal directly or peripherally with the GW, among them, iirc, Eliza for Common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 No problem seaJane, to be honest the chances of me getting the answer before John were always negligible! There is a definite family resemblance to Buchan, and I should have remembered that on another thread you had confessed to a being a fan of his work David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 There it is again - the TEL link i.e John Buchan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 I think Robert Graves's name also appears in the visitors' book for Elsfield Manor, Buchan's Oxfordshire home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 3 August , 2016 Share Posted 3 August , 2016 2 hours ago, seaJane said: I think Robert Graves's name also appears in the visitors' book for Elsfield Manor, Buchan's Oxfordshire home. They were all part of the 'Max Gate Circle' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 August , 2016 Share Posted 6 August , 2016 I imagine seaJane will know who these chaps are. My guess is that one is easy, one less so, one not easy at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 18 hours ago, Uncle George said: I imagine seaJane will know who these chaps are. My guess is that one is easy, one less so, one not easy at all. Are they all connected to one particular incident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 38 minutes ago, neverforget said: Are they all connected to one particular incident? One particular pre-war event, yes. The photographs, which are not to be found on-line, are taken from a 1915 article which examines the GW careers of the survivors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 20 hours ago, Uncle George said: I imagine seaJane will know who these chaps are. My guess is that one is easy, one less so, one not easy at all. Are they all connected to one particular incident? I`ll take a wild guess. Wild, Adams and Marshall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 15 minutes ago, neverforget said: Are they all connected to one particular incident? I`ll take a wild guess. Wild, Adams and Marshall? Sorry, no. Wrong expedition. One of these men lost his life during the GW while trying to save lives during the sinking of the 'Hogue'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 1 hour ago, Uncle George said: Sorry, no. Wrong expedition. One of these men lost his life during the GW while trying to save lives during the sinking of the 'Hogue'. Would that be Captain R.W. Johnson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 35 minutes ago, neverforget said: Would that be Captain R.W. Johnson? Again, sorry, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 7 August , 2016 Share Posted 7 August , 2016 Hi UG I have been otherwise occupied for a couple of days but a bit of digging around and I have turned up that these gallant chaps, I think, are members of Scotts ill fated Terra Nova expedition crew that survived the Antarctic expedition but were lost in the Great War Lt Cmd Henry Rennick was lost with HMS Hogue after gallantly giving up his lifebelt and helping others in the water. Commander Harry Pennell lost on the HMS Queen Mary at Jutland ( my wife's late step father was a Pennell related to E Pennell RFC ace) And Alf Cheetham who was serving as a Second Officer on the S S Prunelle when sunk by u-boat in Aug 1918. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 12 hours ago, Knotty said: Hi UG I have been otherwise occupied for a couple of days but a bit of digging around and I have turned up that these gallant chaps, I think, are members of Scotts ill fated Terra Nova expedition crew that survived the Antarctic expedition but were lost in the Great War Lt Cmd Henry Rennick was lost with HMS Hogue after gallantly giving up his lifebelt and helping others in the water. Commander Harry Pennell lost on the HMS Queen Mary at Jutland ( my wife's late step father was a Pennell related to E Pennell RFC ace) And Alf Cheetham who was serving as a Second Officer on the S S Prunelle when sunk by u-boat in Aug 1918. John John, you are right in saying that these men survived Scott's famous expedition. And you have correctly identified Henry Rennick. Well done. (In the account I read of his death on the 'Hogue' he gave up life-saving planks of wood - the flotsam of that execrable poem in post #5319.) But you are mistaken with the other two. One of them had a very distinguished GW and post-War career - he became a full admiral and served in the Norwegian campaign during the Second war. The other was a namesake of a very famous mariner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 Still game on then. Jolly good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 There was a Francis Drake on the expedition, so could that be the famous mariner in post #5321 John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 I`m loving this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 Forgot there were 2 x Evans on this expedition, the one that perished with Scott (Edgar) and the other one who became "Evans of the Broke", so I will add Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans 1st Baron Mountevans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 1 hour ago, Uncle George said: ... that execrable poem in post #5319 Oh, come on, UG, it isn't that bad, compared with a lot of poetry written at the time. And don't forget that it was a Poet Laureate who penned the lines: "Across the wire the electric message came: He is no better, he is much the same." Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 (edited) On 8 August 2016 at 11:39, Knotty said: There was a Francis Drake on the expedition, so could that be the famous mariner in post #5321 John Yes! The chap with the admirable hat is Francis Drake, the secretary and Paymaster on Scott's expedition. During the GW he served on HMS Undaunted, and had "several crisp little fights, amongst them being the vivid battle with the four German destroyers. His ship had narrow escapes, and was nearly torpedoed several times whilst engaged in the destruction of the enemy's vessels." Quote and photographs from 'From South Pole to North Sea' (1915), by Draycot M. Dell. And yes, the other chap is 'Evans of the Broke', so named after his heroic behaviour at the Battle of Dover Strait. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Evans,_1st_Baron_Mountevans Edited 17 August , 2016 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 20 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Oh, come on, UG, it isn't that bad, compared with a lot of poetry written at the time. And don't forget that it was a Poet Laureate who penned the lines: "Across the wire the electric message came: He is no better, he is much the same." Ron Good point Ron: but I stand by my assessment. Here's another of Canon Rawnsley's oeuvre: "To Lieut. Holbrook and his Gallant Crew of B11 "Deep in the Dardenelles, Safe from all shot and shells, Holbrook went creeping Right thro' the fivefold lines Of those death-dealing mines; Caught the Turk sleeping. "Rose, let his thunder slip, Sunk the great battle ship, And, Chance at zero - Dived; thro' dark-swirling night, Death to left, death to right, Came back a hero." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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