neverforget Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Enough badges and stuff there for someone to narrow it down, but with my knowledge of insignia and stuff, I`m hopelessly lost, I`m afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 As for yours, if I can express an opinion, Sir Arthur Pearson, founder of St Dunstan's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Steve, is your man John Monash? And have we still got Daniel's Englishman in New York in play? I may not have been keeping up. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 As for yours, if I can express an opinion, Sir Arthur Pearson, founder of St Dunstan's Spot on,Steve. Well done. http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/116184/Father-of-the-Blind-A-Portrait-of-Sir-Arthur-Pearson Steve, is your man John Monash? And have we still got Daniel's Englishman in New York in play? I may not have been keeping up. Pete. Pete, I think Daniel`s man was solved here. http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=214619&page=80#entry2224042 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Pete, I think Daniel`s man was solved here. http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=214619&page=80#entry2224042 Thanks NF, the pace was so relentless I'd completely missed it; dammed glad I asked having read the answer. A triumph by our New York correspondent. Pete, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Hi Pete, Mine's not Monash. He participated in both world wars, to him the spoils . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Enough badges and stuff there for someone to narrow it down, but with my knowledge of insignia and stuff, I`m hopelessly lost, I`m afraid. Well, the uniform is Belgian, which must narrow it down quite a bit! King Albert's Chief of Staff?Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Yes Ron, he is Belgian. But not the Chief of Staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Yes Ron, he is Belgian. But not the Chief of Staff. Page one of my book on Belgian Generals..Victor Jean Clement van Strydonck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 That's him, Baron van Strydonck de Burkel. He took the title of his Baronetcy from the location of the successful cavalry charge he commanded in October 1918, the last on the Western Front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 9 February , 2015 Share Posted 9 February , 2015 Bit of a sombre one this, I`m sorry to say. Who is this poor lad??? Fought at Mons and retreat. Killed September 1914. Has no known grave, although his name is shown on the British memorial to the missing at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Bit of a sombre one this, I`m sorry to say. Who is this poor lad???pb.jpg Fought at Mons and retreat. Killed September 1914. Has no known grave, although his name is shown on the British memorial to the missing at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne. Royal West Kent Rgt? I hardly know anything about cap badges, but that does look to me like the rearing Kentish horse... There are 36 West Kents on La Ferté s/J Memorial, but I'd need more clues.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Royal West Kent Rgt? I hardly know anything about cap badges, but that does look to me like the rearing Kentish horse... There are 36 West Kents on La Ferté s/J Memorial, but I'd need more clues.... You have very expertly narrowed it down, Colin. West Kents is quite right. His local council as recently as 2000 refused to include him on their memorial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 You have very expertly narrowed it down, Colin. West Kents is quite right. His local council as recently as 2000 refused to include him on their memorial. That made it easier! Thomas Highgate, the first British soldier executed for desertion in the GW. A very hasty trial, at which he was undefended, and a very hasty execution in public - not a great advertisement for military justice of the time, but I imagine it probably had the desired effect of putting the wind up others. And after all, what other value had a private's life to a senior officer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 That made it easier! Thomas Highgate, the first British soldier executed for desertion in the GW. A very hasty trial, at which he was undefended, and a very hasty execution in public - not a great advertisement for military justice of the time, but I imagine it probably had the desired effect of putting the wind up others. And after all, what other value had a private's life to a senior officer? Absolutely correct, Colin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25841494 I think Winter put it quite well in his "Death`s Men" book, when summing up exactly what a "man" was, as referred to by the army. "To the N.C.O. "man" was a being tending constantly towards evil. Only constant harassment would keep tunic buttons fastened,and restricted areas restricted. "Man" to a subaltern was a shadowy creature. "Man to a Quartermaster was an envelope of skin consuming food, and needing a billet. "Man" to a staff officer was a chess piece - "Send three men to sap A and tell them to hold it at all costs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Absolutely correct, Colin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25841494 I think Winter put it quite well in his "Death`s Men" book, when summing up exactly what a "man" was, as referred to by the army. "To the N.C.O. "man" was a being tending constantly towards evil. Only constant harassment would keep tunic buttons fastened,and restricted areas restricted. "Man" to a subaltern was a shadowy creature. "Man to a Quartermaster was an envelope of skin consuming food, and needing a billet. "Man" to a staff officer was a chess piece - "Send three men to sap A and tell them to hold it at all costs." Indeed! Where, on a scale of values, would a man have stood vs. - say - a horse/mule? Men were: Easier and cheaper to procure Easier and cheaper to train Easier and cheaper to feed and billet Easier to coerce into doing things against their nature Easier and cheaper to replace and all you could do with their carcasses was bury them. It may well be that someone will take me to task on this, although I also realise that without a certain disregard for lives nothing could have been achieved. That's why I'd only ever have been cannon-fodder.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Indeed! Where, on a scale of values, would a man have stood vs. - say - a horse/mule? Men were: Easier and cheaper to procure Easier and cheaper to train Easier and cheaper to feed and billet Easier to coerce into doing things against their nature Easier and cheaper to replace and all you could do with their carcasses was bury them. It may well be that someone will take me to task on this, although I also realise that without a certain disregard for lives nothing could have been achieved. That's why I'd only ever have been cannon-fodder.... Same here mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Combining two sub-themes now: viz, animals and colours. Who's this little chap, and how does he fit into 'colours' ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 That's Rags, the mascot of the US 1st Infantry Division. The only colour connection I can see id that he is buried in Silver Spring - where his memorial stone also stands. A great little dog, must have been quite a character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rags_%28dog%29 Cheers Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Have we had this forthright visage before? I wonder how he'd have viewed the current fad for trainers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 That's Rags, the mascot of the US 1st Infantry Division. The only colour connection I can see id that he is buried in Silver Spring - where his memorial stone also stands. A great little dog, must have been quite a character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rags_(dog) Cheers Colin Yes indeed. "Rags achieved great notoriety and celebrity war dog fame when he saved many lives in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign by delivering a vital message despite being bombed, gassed and partially blinded." No, I wasn't thinking of silver as the colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Have we had this forthright visage before? I wonder how he'd have viewed the current fad for trainers? Arthur Wellesley, later 5th Duke of Wellington? He of the Right Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Didn`t mean to startle you, but we don`t seem to have included this gentleman yet??? Musician and politician, captured here during one of his lighter moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 Arthur Wellesley, later 5th Duke of Wellington? He of the Right Club. No, not he. He'd encourage you to be as offensive as you should be, in the very best way... Oh, he was also an Arthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 10 February , 2015 Share Posted 10 February , 2015 cp.jpg Didn`t mean to startle you, but we don`t seem to have included this gentleman yet??? Musician and politician, captured here during one of his lighter moments. Is he Paderewski? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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