Guest Posted 17 July , 2018 Share Posted 17 July , 2018 James Somerville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 17 July , 2018 Share Posted 17 July , 2018 No. Clue: no executive curl on his rings in the first picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 18 July , 2018 Share Posted 18 July , 2018 Clue 2: relevant to my interests, especially where I work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 18 July , 2018 Author Share Posted 18 July , 2018 Francis Pridham ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Clue 3+4 A mention of red distinction cloths may be raiding the bottom of the barrel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 raiding = Zeebrugge & Ostend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Zeebrugge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 I’m getting closer so I’ll say Staff Surgeon James McCutcheon on HMS Vindictive as my first attempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Correct! Principal Medical Officer for the Raid. (pictures taken by me from photographs in my care) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 I’m a little chuffed with myself, literally I had nothing to go on except a pdf from the BMJ dated July 27 1918, showing the various awards and casualties to members of the medical service including those who were on the Zeebrugge raid. When it came to awards he does not appear to have recieved a gong, but he was given a promotion, so whilst he was the third name in the order of awards, I simply changed it around, the others being Pocock and Clegg, with a possibility of Colson, as a fourth contender. Have you a link to a potted history of his life and exploits? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Article in the Journal of the RN Medical Service imminent There's a short obituary in the Journal for 1956 - I'll post a link later. He was offered a choice between medal or promotion although Keynes would have liked him to have both. NB Clegg appears in fact to have been Glegg, but the mistake is persistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 (edited) I thank you. NB Checked the BMJ and they definitely have it as Clegg, easy to see how it permeates for a century. Edited 19 July , 2018 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 JRNMS, vol. 42 no. 3 (summer) + 4 (autumn) 1956. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Excellent piece of detective work Monsieur Knotty🔎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 (edited) NF your impersonation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s has now finished, and you are back? Or brief visit? Edited 19 July , 2018 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 30 minutes ago, Knotty said: NF your impersonation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s has now finished, and you are back? Or brief visit? I think I'm back John. I'll see if anyone can spot who this is. It doesn't appear that he has appeared yet. (Am I impressing anyone with my command of the English language?😊) None of that drivel was a cryptic clue by the way. I'll chuck in the fact that he has royal, as well as Irish connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Uniform of the Royal Scots Greys I believe, can’t mistake the Imperial Russian Eagle of Tsar Nicolas II on his cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 (edited) Not to mention the thistle on his collar! I think that he is Brig-Gen C B Bulkeley-Johnson, CO of the Greys in August 1914 until promoted to command 8th Cavalry Brigade. It was in this appointment that he was killed in April 1917 whilst carrying out a forward reconnaissance during the Battles of Arras. He was also an ADC to the King - the royal connection. Ron Edited 19 July , 2018 by Ron Clifton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 39 minutes ago, Knotty said: Uniform of the Royal Scots Greys I believe, can’t mistake the Imperial Russian Eagle of Tsar Nicolas II on his cap. 35 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Not to mention the thistle on his collar! I think that he is Brig-Gen C B Bulkeley-Johnson, CO of the Greys in August 1914 until promoted to command 8th Cavalry Brigade. It was in this appointment that he was killed in April 1917 whilst carrying out a forward reconnaissance during the Battles of Arras. He was also an ADC to the King - the royal connection. Ron Sorry Ron but it isn't Bulkeley Johnson. Knotty's post actually presents the next clues that I was to Oh so generously offer next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 1 hour ago, neverforget said: Am I impressing anyone with my command of the English language?😊) Let us remember WSC's maxim: "Naturally I am biased in favour of boys learning English; and then I would let the clever learn Latin as an honour and Greek as a treat. But the only thing I would whip them for is not knowing English. I would whip them hard for that." (Nice to see you back old chap.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Let us remember WSC's maxim: "Naturally I am biased in favour of boys learning English; and then I would let the clever learn Latin as an honour and Greek as a treat. But the only thing I would whip them for is not knowing English. I would whip them hard for that." (Nice to see you back old chap.) Merci mon Oncle. Is anyone really capable of learning the English language? I wonder. In my third year at grammar school I was considered to be the best of the bunch, and was the only pupil to be forwarded to take it at o level a year early. To be honest, I was perhaps strangely unique in as much as I really enjoyed English. I passed the o level but needless to say it was all downhill after that uncharacteristic zenith as far as my scholarly pursuits were concerned. Anyway: Regarding my WIT; His royal connection was a good deal less cryptic than Ron proposed. Edited 19 July , 2018 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepper Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 (Another of) George V's cousins - Prince Arthur of Connaught? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 1 hour ago, Knotty said: Uniform of the Royal Scots Greys I believe, can’t mistake the Imperial Russian Eagle of Tsar Nicolas II on his cap. Uh? Is it not a French imperial eagle- the word "Waterloo" underneath might be a clue- Or is that indicative our man worked as a ticket collector for the Southern Railway at the railway station of that name??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 5 minutes ago, Nepper said: (Another of) George V's cousins - Prince Arthur of Connaught? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, Nepper said: (Another of) George V's cousins - Prince Arthur of Connaught? Nepper has it! Here's the full picture: With a close up of the caption: Picture taken from here: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/duke-connaught-strathearn-1850.html Edited 20 July , 2018 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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