neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 He is George Bemand, possibly the British Army's first black officer. Yes he is, uncle. Nice to see the forum contributing to history again. https://greatwarlondon.wordpress.com/tag/george-bemand/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 In a way, you could say my chap was too Is it Almeric Paget? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 The crime (no need for inverted commas!) was murder - politically-racially motivated murder in fact - committed just a few months after the armistice Cheers Colin To do with the Spartacist uprising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 (edited) The Three Stooges? Well I think I've heard the name before, but they're way off my radar.... I'll read Daniel's links when I get to work and have some free time. Nevertheless, well done NF! And as for VPWC - Victory Praise & Worship Centre? Visa Paralympics World Cup? No, I'm not going down that highway - I want revenge!! Who ist this? Image18.png Just 1 mean clue (although I might soften up later): - soon after the GW he was condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted the very next day Cheers Colin Is it Hermann Souchon? EDIT: Sorry, UG didn`t see your post. Thought the same as you, and was reading up on it at the time you posted. Edited 20 February , 2015 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 No NF, not Paget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 To do with the Spartacist uprising? Wrong city, I'm afraid Is it Hermann Souchon? and not he - they were tumultuous times in Germany! He wrote of his victim: X is a bolschevik, he is a Jew, he is not a German, he does not feel in the German manner, he undermines all patriotic thinking and feeling, he is a traitor And this despite his mother being the daughter of a well-known Jewish banking family. Cheers Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Is it Otto Runge ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 I thought mine would have gone by now......in WW2 members of the service received more gallantry medals than any other eligible participant but in WW1 they were merely listed on the Meritorious Performance List. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Wrong city, I'm afraid and not he - they were tumultuous times in Germany! He wrote of his victim: X is a bolschevik, he is a Jew, he is not a German, he does not feel in the German manner, he undermines all patriotic thinking and feeling, he is a traitor And this despite his mother being the daughter of a well-known Jewish banking family. Cheers Colin Is it Anton Arco Valley? Assassinated Kurt Eisner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Is it Otto Runge ? No, Souchon and Runge were the murderers of Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin, but that's the wrong city. My man is said to have been on the periphery of the Thule Society, but not granted membership on the grounds of his mother being Jewish. His deed was possibly motivated by the desire to demonstrate his "nationalist-patriotic convictions". (But you won't find his name on the Wikipedia page about the Thule Society). An uncle of his might make you think of a West London suburb near Ealing.... and I suspect he did not entirely agree with this uncle's dictum (at least not at this stage in his life). Cheers Colin Is it Anton Arco Valley? Assassinated Kurt Eisner. Sorry I missed that as I was interrupted whilst writing my last post - that's indeed the man! Cheers Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Well done! His uncle was John Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, and his famous bon mot was Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. Kurt Eisner was the president of the short-lived Bavarian Socialist Republic following the king's abdication. Bizzarely, the judge, when sentencing him to death, said that he believed the murder had not been carried out for base motives, but rather as an expression of glowing love for his fatherland. After the sentence had been commuted he spent 4 years (of a life sentence) in "fortress confinement" in Landsberg am Lech, where he could come and go, receive visitors more or less as he liked, before being released on parole and subsequently pardoned. Ironically, he was taken into "protective custody" in 1933 after Hitler came to power, but was soon released. The Nazis never trusted him and kept him under surveillance and he probably only escaped further persecution through the protection of the Bavarian crown prince. He died in 1945 as a result of a car crash. Cheers Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 No, he started his pioneering work in the last years of the 19th century and during WW1 was in charge of its implementation in the British Army. It was one of the few areas of the war where we were better than the Germans from the start. Various members of his service have already featured on WIT Is he Lt-Col. Edwin Hautenville Richardson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Right idea, UG but not canine. If you identify him you could say it would something of a coup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Right idea, UG but not canine. If you identify him you could say it would something of a coup. He is Alfred Osman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 He is indeed. Lt. Col. A H Osman He was the editor and creator of The Racing Pigeon, its first edition appearing on Wednesday, April 20th 1898. That same year he was the driving force in experiments to prove the worth of racing pigeons as messengers for the military. In 1914 he volunteered and set up the Voluntary Pigeon War Committee to oversee the recruitment, training and deployment of pigeons in the British armed forces. A H Osman was appointed Lieutenant Colonel, in charge of the pigeon service. This came about because of his knowledge of pigeons and pigeon fanciers. The Racing Pigeon played a great part as a means of obtaining volunteers and birds. A H Osman accepted the rank as honorary and without pay and was appointed to organise and command the first Carrier Pigeon Service in the British Army. One of his pigeons, ‘Little Hope’ made 153 trips in three years of war service in all types of weather without a mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 I thought of this man when Steve's had finally been solved. Who is he ? ? ? Clue - think: Guy Crouchback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Nice one, Steve. There's some good background information on Osman here. I particularly liked the ejector seat mentioned at the end of the article.... http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/closing-the-pigeon-gap-68103438/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 I though of this man when Steve's had finally been solved. Who is he ? ? ? Clue - think: Guy Crouchback Sir Frank Mears? - parachute man = Crouchback analogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Sir Frank Mears? - parachute man = Crouchback analogy 'Fraid not. Crouchback in Crete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigwhammer Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 I'll have to think about that later this evening - have to cash up now and pay staff before going home 'Fraid not.Crouchback in Crete. .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Good post, Steve. I put loads of work into finding him, but went down the wrong road, looking at medics et al. Anyway, fair play to UG for solving. After reading the abridged version of part two of the trilogy which, I believe, U.G. was alluding to, I do hope I`m not setting out on another long and wild goose-chase, but here goes anyway. Wild goose-chases are surprisingly informative in any case. It`s amazing what you learn by accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 One of the "accidents" I stumbled across when looking for someone else, was this fellow. Who is this??? I`m going to be uncharacteristically chary with clues this time, but I will let on that he is a writer of WW1 books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 One of the "accidents" I stumbled across when looking for someone else, was this fellow. Who is this???uh.jpg I`m going to be uncharacteristically chary with clues this time, but I will let on that he is a writer of WW1 books. Is he Henry Williamson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 Is he Henry Williamson? He isn`t, U.G. After the war, he became pacifistic. During the war, he most certainly was not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 February , 2015 Share Posted 20 February , 2015 'Fraid not. Crouchback in Crete. Colonel Parr, by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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