Guest Posted 25 February , 2019 Share Posted 25 February , 2019 On 23/02/2019 at 10:27, Uncle George said: By the look on Ll.G’s face, Effy is not alone. And Milner appears to be leaning forward to tell Grey that LG's hands are wandering again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 2 March , 2019 Share Posted 2 March , 2019 (edited) Here’s an interesting chap. “Perhaps the most curious streak in his character was his romantic passion for legitimacy and the Jacobite movement ... I remember the horror on his face when, pointing to a French terracotta bust of James Stuart, I asked him if it was the Old Pretender. ‘My dear friend,’ he exclaimed, ‘I never expected you to say that. The bust is of James III.’ “ Who is he ? ? ? EDIT: Image from Pinterest. Edited 3 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 2 March , 2019 Share Posted 2 March , 2019 One of the Saxe-Coburgs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 2 March , 2019 Share Posted 2 March , 2019 3 minutes ago, seaJane said: One of the Saxe-Coburgs? No. He was a Royal, but not a Saxe-Coburg. Different continent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 2 March , 2019 Share Posted 2 March , 2019 7 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Different continent Not Australia or Antarctica, then, royalty-wise. Doesn't leave much. Asia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 2 March , 2019 Share Posted 2 March , 2019 8 minutes ago, seaJane said: Asia? He was born in London, educated at Eton. But yes, Asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 Prince Henry, later Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V? The uniform is presumably that of 10th Royal Hussars. He was later Governor-General of Australia (not Asia), and I am surprised by the Jacobite references. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 58 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Prince Henry, later Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V? The uniform is presumably that of 10th Royal Hussars. He was later Governor-General of Australia (not Asia), and I am surprised by the Jacobite references. Ron No, not Prince Henry. My chap has been described as “one of the minor heroes of the war”. He served in the First war with the Norfolk Yeomanry. He first volunteered for the Yeomanry many years before the war; an odd choice, as he was believed to have “detested” horsemanship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 Googling Royalty and Eton gives me a choice of two brothers whose sister made an appearance on the thread not so long ago ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 6 hours ago, seaJane said: Googling Royalty and Eton gives me a choice of two brothers whose sister made an appearance on the thread not so long ago ... If you are correct, then it is as you say sJ, a choice of two brothers. Being a gentleman of the old school, I feel obliged to say, "Ladies first".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 Victor Duleep Singh ... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 Tricky one this. The two candidates have very similar names: Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, and Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh. Having googled pictures of both of them, I would say the latter, though I think it could go either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, seaJane said: Googling Royalty and Eton gives me a choice of two brothers whose sister made an appearance on the thread not so long ago ... 24 minutes ago, neverforget said: Tricky one this. The two candidates have very similar names: Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, and Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh. Having googled pictures of both of them, I would say the latter, though I think it could go either way. I don’t think Victor served in the war. Anyway, my chap is His Royal Highness Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh of Punjab, late of the Suffolk Yeomanry and of the Norfolk Yeomanry, the son of the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire. He would appear to have been something of a Renaissance man. And he is reported to have hung a portrait of Oliver Cromwell upside down in his toilet. What a witty man he must have been. The attached is from Samuel Hoare’s ‘The Fourth Seal’ (1930). Edited 3 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 The more I hear about that family the more I hope someone has written a good book about them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 All credit goes to seaJane. I wouldn't have twigged it in a million years without her sussing which family it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 4 minutes ago, neverforget said: All credit goes to seaJane. I wouldn't have twigged it in a million years without her sussing which family it was. Most kind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 3 March , 2019 Share Posted 3 March , 2019 6 minutes ago, seaJane said: Most kind Not at all, just being fair. I honestly hadn't a clue. Well played! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 Another Great War "biggie" that seems to have thus far been overlooked. Rated by some historians as the best ever staff officer, and used as an example of excellence by his foes in later years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 Colonel Max Hoffmann, chief of staff of the German Eighth Army in East Prussia in 1914. He was widely credited with masterminding the victory of Tannenberg, and spent the rest of the war in senior staff positions on the Eastern Front. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 5 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Colonel Max Hoffmann, chief of staff of the German Eighth Army in East Prussia in 1914. He was widely credited with masterminding the victory of Tannenberg, and spent the rest of the war in senior staff positions on the Eastern Front. Ron Got him in one Ron. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hoffmann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 This chap's famous grandfather lost two grandsons in the conflict, this being one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 1 hour ago, neverforget said: This chap's famous grandfather lost two grandsons in the conflict, this being one of them. Is the grandad Garibaldi? And is this Guiseppe Garibaldi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 9 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Is the grandad Garibaldi? And is this Guiseppe Garibaldi? I'm afraid this doesn't take the biscuit on this occasion mon uncle. My chap was R.W.F. He was famous in his own right for a notable event. If another incorrect attempt is forthcoming I will reveal the regiment of the other grandson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 Is this Will Gladstone, grandson of the Victorian prime minister and last man whose body was officially repatriated? RWF fits at least. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 4 March , 2019 Share Posted 4 March , 2019 11 minutes ago, neverforget said: I'm afraid this doesn't take the biscuit on this occasion mon uncle. “You’ve got your Garibaldis, you’ve got your Bourbons, then of course you’ve got your Peak Freans Trotsky Assortment.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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