neverforget Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Brilliant, David. So much for ramping up the difficulty. I'll be back..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Who is this??? Soldier. Writer. Teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Is it Jacques Riviere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Is it Jacques Riviere? Not him I`m afraid. He wrote several works, one of which was introduced into the French high-school curriculum, and has been adapted to film five times. Attempted to take a pacifist stance at the outbreak of WW1, but was conscripted, and killed as per account below: ??? regiment attacked German lines near Fresnes-en-Woëvre, during which ??? was shot and wounded. He fell into barbed wire, where he became trapped. Some hours later, German soldiers rescued him and other wounded, taking the French soldiers to a temporary field hospital behind their lines. On the morning of 8 April, ??? and others were killed in a French artillery barrage that destroyed the hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 I susepect we might have had this chap before. Looking at the picture you might suspect him of being French. You'd be right. He is (sans moustache, but avec Gitanes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Is it "Johnny" Walker, DSO***? Living life on the edge while wired on Vimto and Sanatogen (can you still get that stuff?) is clearly paying early dividends Mr B. Frederic John Walker RN it is. A junior officer in WW1 his greatness was cemented in WW2. Sailing out of Liverpool his flotilla accounted for more U-boats than any other formation if my memory is correct. Died of a brain aneurism just down the road from Owls Towers in Seaforth; the city of Liverpool who had adopted him and his boys as their own and turned out in great numbers for his funeral. My old mum used to talk about it. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 I susepect we might have had this chap before. Looking at the picture you might suspect him of being French. You'd be right. He is (sans moustache, but avec Gitanes) That's Frederic-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars. Born in Switzerland but became a French citizen. Lost his right arm at Champagne in 1915. Fascinating life, the list of artists, writers, poets etc that he knew is endless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Blaise Cendrars, indeed. Moravagine is certainly amongst the oddest novels I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdr Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 Now, who is this cavalryman then ? (the date 04/08 is relevant ) Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 (edited) NF, hope we're allowed 2 guesses per WIT. My excuse for the first post is that they look similar and both were soldiers, teachers and writers, but the film clue clinched it …… It's Louis Pergaud Edited 4 August , 2014 by helpjpl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 We`re allowed as many guesses as stamina allows, but no more will be needed on this one. It is indeed Louis Pergaud, and my next clue was going to refer to "buttons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pergaud Nice picture by the way. I think Carl`s cavalryman is Antoine Fonck. First Belgian to be killed. (4/8/14.) Still no closer with Steve`s though...........Wild guess..Aleksey Brusilov? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 4 August , 2014 Share Posted 4 August , 2014 The "ov" bit is right ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdr Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 Neverforget quite correct Antoine , a'voltigeur' in the 2nd Lanciers had left the army in may 1914. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 The "ov" bit is right ! I think we are going to need a clue Steve. The only cavalry 'ov' I know is Samsonov and it's not him David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 £5 on Kindle, £6 paperback. When it was published in 1962 it was an immediate success including with one political leader. Kennedy gave a copy to Macmillan observing that 'somehow contemporary statesmen must avoid the pitfalls that led to August 1914'. He then quoted it during the Cuban Missile crisis saying he was determined not to stumble into a war as they had in 1914. I think Steve is being slightly generous to Hastings who I think would be immensely flattered to be compared to Tuchman. In my opinion Catastrophe is nothing like as elegantly written or as powerful. In the edition of '...August' I have in front of me the Foreword by Robert K Massie ends 'By turning this page, the fortunate person who has not yet encountered this book can begin to read.' My thoughts exactly. David Hard to resist such a description so I gave in. I'm now reading this book David, and so far so good. I like Barbara Tuchman's writing style, and it is a refreshing change to other books I've tried to read on the outbreak of war, and events leading up to it, that were so tinderbox dry it's a wonder they didn't spontaneously combust! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 A long clue for my cavalryman: "A Cossack and by all accounts, quite a cruel one: if he was in London he'd probably swap his horse for a bike !" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 Pyotra Krasnov? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 Not him Caryl. My chap was executed by the Soviets in 1927, having fought on after 1918 in Siberia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 Bet his first name's Boris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 'Tis indeed Mr B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 I'll dip out there, then. Success goes to my head, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 Hard to resist such a description so I gave in. I'm now reading this book David, and so far so good. I like Barbara Tuchman's writing style, and it is a refreshing change to other books I've tried to read on the outbreak of war, and events leading up to it, that were so tinderbox dry it's a wonder they didn't spontaneously combust! She always said she was a writer first and an historian second, which wouldn't endear her to everyone on the Forum! I'm glad you are enjoying it David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 A long clue for my cavalryman: "A Cossack and by all accounts, quite a cruel one: if he was in London he'd probably swap his horse for a bike !" Boris Annenkov? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 That's the man, David, Following the fighting in Siberia, he fled south to China and was captured; Britain, amongst several countries, successfully petitioned for his release but he was then captured again and handed over to the Soviets. They finally executed him in 1927. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 5 August , 2014 Share Posted 5 August , 2014 I think we are clear now so how about another WAIWA: "Exasperated, like all men of rapid mind at the blindness of others and accustomed to respect as a strategist, he continued to hector GQG. Joffre grew irritated at his constant criticism and contentiousness. He conceived the whole duty of generals was to be lions in action and dogs in obedience, an ideal to which ........, with a mind of his own and an urgent sense of danger, found it impossible to conform." More from the incomparable Tuchman David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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