seaJane Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 Thanks for this everyone - sorry to have dropped out of the game but I had a full weekend! I would have got Evans of the Broke, and was fairly sure of the generic link, but could not identify the other two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 8 August , 2016 Share Posted 8 August , 2016 Here's a genuinely affecting poem by Canon H. D. Rawnsley: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 9 August , 2016 Share Posted 9 August , 2016 On 8/8/2016 at 12:26, Uncle George said: 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." He had obviously read Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade! And it does have proper scansion and rhymes. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 9 August , 2016 Share Posted 9 August , 2016 3 hours ago, Ron Clifton said: He had obviously read Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade! And it does have proper scansion and rhymes. Ron I confess that I'd never heard of him. Which reveals my ignorance: it seems that he was a significant figure. Inter alia he was one of the founders of the National Trust. Wikipedia tells us: "In 1882, the young Beatrix Potter holidayed in nearby Wray Castle with her parents. They entertained many eminent guests, including Rawnsley. His views on preserving the natural beauty of Lake District had a lasting effect on Potter, who was already taken with the area. He was the first published author she met, and he took a great interest in her drawings, later encouraging her to publish her first book, 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'." Here's a 1995 article about him, titled, 'Rawnsley! Thou shouldst be living at this hour'. It begins, "Canon Rawnsley was one of the most remarkable men you've never heard of ... ": http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/rawnsley-thou-shouldst-be-living-at-this-hour-1610966.html https://archive.org/details/poemsballadsbuco00rawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elsworj Posted 16 August , 2016 Share Posted 16 August , 2016 On 12/05/2016 at 10:40, Michelle Young said: Pamela Cynthia Maude, they married 1st June I think Pamela later remarried in 1919 The Hon William Fraser who was a friend of her late husbands, best man at their wedding in 1916 ,and with whom he served on The Somme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelcave Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 14 hours ago, elsworj said: Pamela later remarried in 1919 The Hon William Fraser who was a friend of her late husbands, best man at their wedding in 1916 ,and with whom he served on The Somme. And Fraser's war memories were published about twenty plus years ago, edited by his son, General Sir David Fraser: P&S is about to produce a reprint (with a short intro by me, so interest alert sounded). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 17 August , 2016 Share Posted 17 August , 2016 More expense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 August , 2016 Share Posted 22 August , 2016 I don`t believe this lady has featured up to now. Revolutionary, politician, suffragette and socialist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 August , 2016 Share Posted 22 August , 2016 Eva Gore-Booth's sister ... Georgina? Countess Markiewicz. Daughter of yet another polar explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 August , 2016 Share Posted 22 August , 2016 9 minutes ago, seaJane said: Eva Gore-Booth's sister ... Georgina? Countess Markiewicz. Daughter of yet another polar explorer. Indeed so seaJane, well spotted. Also of course, one of the prominent figures of the Easter Rising.http://www.easter1916.ie/index.php/people/women/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 22 August , 2016 Share Posted 22 August , 2016 That is she, a bit slow on this one,need to get back into practice,Constance Gore-Booth who married and became Countess Constance Markievicz, a staunch Irish Nationalist, she was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, but did not take her seat, she died in 1927 from appendicitis. But you already know all of this. John Well done seaJane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 August , 2016 Share Posted 22 August , 2016 Bit of a fluke. Happened to be looking up her father a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 And for the predictable follow-up, can you name these three??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 Morning NF At the ready this morning! Rose McNamara, top left Margaret Skinnider, top right Dr Kathleen Lynn, bottom No need to add any info they are pretty well known in "Women of the Easter Rising" John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 Morning John. Two out of three ain't bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 (edited) Bug*er thought I'd nailed that without any books,Internet etc. just using memory, will need to start referencing, back soon unless someone else has a go Elizabeth O'Farrell not Rose McNamara, how's that Edited 23 August , 2016 by Knotty Added new information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 2 hours ago, Knotty said: Bug*er thought I'd nailed that without any books,Internet etc. just using memory, will need to start referencing, back soon unless someone else has a go Elizabeth O'Farrell not Rose McNamara, how's that That'll get you top marks John. It was O'Farrell whom, along with Pearse, took the surrender to General Lowe. She was based at the G.P.O. building, nursing the wounded. Skinnider was in command of a group of five men, and received three gunshot wounds during the uprising. The Army refused her a pension on the grounds that it was only "applicable to soldiers as generally understood in the male sense". Lynn was commander of the City Hall Garrison, and served as chief medical officer in the Irish Citizens Army. She was buried with full military honours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 Simple one here, this soldier became a statesman. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 Been puzzling over this one all day on and off, and as I'm rubbish at identifying uniforms, I can't find any Brit, Canadian, Australian, or Irishman who fits the bill. I think I'm a bit stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 August , 2016 Share Posted 23 August , 2016 He was originally recruiting for the Turks, but was deported to Egypt (1915) ending up in USA, where he continued his recruiting, but with the Balfour Declaration (Nov1917) switched sides and joined the Jewish Legion of the British Army in the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, fighting with Chaytors force in the Palestine Campaign. Plenty of clues John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 24 August , 2016 Share Posted 24 August , 2016 22 hours ago, Knotty said: 8 hours ago, Knotty said: He was originally recruiting for the Turks, but was deported to Egypt (1915) ending up in USA, where he continued his recruiting, but with the Balfour Declaration (Nov1917) switched sides and joined the Jewish Legion of the British Army in the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, fighting with Chaytors force in the Palestine Campaign. Plenty of clues John Thanks John. Plenty there to get my teeth into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 24 August , 2016 Share Posted 24 August , 2016 9 hours ago, Knotty said: He was originally recruiting for the Turks, but was deported to Egypt (1915) ending up in USA, where he continued his recruiting, but with the Balfour Declaration (Nov1917) switched sides and joined the Jewish Legion of the British Army in the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, fighting with Chaytors force in the Palestine Campaign. Plenty of clues John This overly generous plethora of clues lead me to David Ben-Gurion. Good one John. As usual, I spent far too much time barking up the wrong tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 24 August , 2016 Share Posted 24 August , 2016 NF That is correct, for some strange reason I thought he might have been easier than that. I was surprised about all his activity in support of the Ottoman Empire, he apparently recruited some 10000 volunteers in the USA to fight for the Turks, and prior to that he was recruiting in his home city of Jerusalem. Sorry for delay in the reply, been into Brum shopping!!! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 August , 2016 Share Posted 26 August , 2016 " ... For him the news was all good. If there were any elements that might have caused doubt in more discerning minds, at least [he] had not discerned them. And if he had, he was proof against their maleficent influence. He could not help his hopeful reports. His computations were not mathematical, but temperamental. From the mass of information that came into his office he chose his facts and figures by attraction and not reflection. He could only be caught by a bright fly. That he swallowed up to the gut." Who and what is being dissected ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 August , 2016 Share Posted 26 August , 2016 1 hour ago, Uncle George said: " ... For him the news was all good. If there were any elements that might have caused doubt in more discerning minds, at least [he] had not discerned them. And if he had, he was proof against their maleficent influence. He could not help his hopeful reports. His computations were not mathematical, but temperamental. From the mass of information that came into his office he chose his facts and figures by attraction and not reflection. He could only be caught by a bright fly. That he swallowed up to the gut." Who and what is being dissected ? ? ? I have a feeling it might be D.L.G. probably referring to Haig's blind faith in Charteris' intelligence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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