neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 More than one colour here. Who is this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Apologies for the confusion. It was the Military Cross and bar for my man. His bar was finally won in the closing weeks of the war, during an attack on Ledeghem in 1918."??? who also he received his division’s card of honour four times during his career – again carried the red flag. He and his party moved so far ahead of the main advance they captured 28 Germans and held out under heavy trench mortar and machine-gun fire until the remainder of the brigade arrived. He attracted heavy fire throughout the action and was eventually severely wounded; his right leg was amputated." He was talked of as a traitor and a spy, and a bullet was placed in his mother’s letter-box. Thanks for pointing out my error, I`ll go back and change the previous post. I've spent much too much time looking at this (to my wife's great annoyance), but I've found him: Walter Schwarz (= black) aka Lieutenant Walter Lancelot Merritt. He deserted from from the AIF fearing his German roots would disqualify him from fighting and subsequently joined Royal Fuseliers under the assumed name. The secret he took to his grave was how he had managed to maintain the deception for so long. Fascinating! There's a book about him by Ken Anderson which I may well purchase - this forum is costing me a fortune in books on topics I'd never considered previously! Cheers Colin Edit - it took me so long to write this with many interruptions that I posted too late - baaah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 More than one colour here. Who is this???jc.jpg Is this Lance Corporal J Rainbow of the Durham Light Infantry, kia 20 September 1917? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Unlucky, Colin. Pipped by the Uncle. You`re not on your own there. However, you still have a chance with my "walking wounded" as it is not Lance Corporal J Rainbow. An incorrect attempt deserves a clue in my book, so I will narrow it down by conceding that he is a V.C. recipient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 U.G. Is your chap Captain Blackadder by any chance? Just a hunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 More than one colour here. Who is this???jc.jpg I thought it might be William Bloomfield (VC). Lots of colours there. But no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 U.G. Is your chap Captain Blackadder by any chance? Just a hunch. BAAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 BAAH! Blimey, that was a lucky guess. Might go out and buy a lottery ticket now. Loving your suggestions for my fellow. It`s amazing how many odd characters this thread throws up. Rainbow is a corker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Hi UG, it's RAMC man, John Leslie Green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Hi UG, it's RAMC man, John Leslie Green. You've got him Steve. His VC citation; "For most conspicuous devotion to duty. Although himself wounded, he went to the assistance of an officer who had been wounded and was hung up on the enemy's wire entanglements, and succeeded in dragging him to a shell hole, where he dressed his wounds, notwithstanding that bombs and rifle grenades were thrown at him the whole time. Captain Green then endeavoured to bring the wounded officer into safe cover, and had nearly succeeded in doing so when he himself was killed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 More than one colour here. Who is this???jc.jpg I thought it might be Archie White of the Green Howards, but it can't be.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 It looks like a Green Howards cap-badge ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Don't ask me about cap badges as I know nowt about 'em - and in any case, with my eyesight nowadays any detail in the photos is usually way beyond me.... It was also really not meant as a serious suggestion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Not Green Howards, gents. Irish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 More than one colour here. Who is this???jc.jpg Is he …. more than one colour = hues = Thomas Hughes VC, Connaught Rangers ? JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Well deduced JP. Hughes it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hughes_%28VC%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 A more well known colourful figure with a chest full of gongs. Doesn`t appear to have been on yet so, Who is this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Still on the colour sub-theme: who is this ? ? ? It is not a young Boris Karloff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 (edited) Salmond ? Not him. (or any other shade of pink) EDIT: Paternal figure. Edited 26 January , 2015 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Davies Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Not Salmond but his predecessor, Trenchard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 "Hue" Trenchard it is, Gareth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Wild guess again, U.G. Is it John Crommelin-Brown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Wild guess again, U.G. Is it John Crommelin-Brown? No NF. My man emphatically did NOT serve during the GW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 Going with the flow, who is this??? DSO, DSC & Bar, DFC, as well as the Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Order of the Crown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 January , 2015 Share Posted 26 January , 2015 (edited) No NF. My man emphatically did NOT serve during the GW. Conchie, eh? EDIT: I`ve found one called Albert Green? Edited 26 January , 2015 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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