Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 3 hours ago, neverforget said: Wild guess: Dashiell Hammett? No. He was Russian: a brave man, but a very foolhardy one. He was a Tower of Russian literature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 Young looking in the photo, is the uniform some form of voluntary Red Cross, the badge appears to be the intertwined serpents as used by the USA medical, was he a Russian doctor who took to writing novels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 Isaac Babel. The Tower pun-OUCH!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 35 minutes ago, voltaire60 said: Isaac Babel. The Tower pun-OUCH!! Yes indeed. He served in the GW and in the Polish-Soviet War. He later had an affair with the wife of the NKVD boss Yeshov. This was a blunder - he was arrested, "interrogated", and shot by firing squad in the Lubyanka in 1940. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Babel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 5 hours ago, neverforget said: William Stanley Sykes? Author of Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia, and also three detective novels. Correct! Surgeon Probationer aboard HMS SABRINA, where a rat chewed his textbooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 This lady is in keeping with the running theme, and has a connection with the G.W. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 2 hours ago, neverforget said: This lady is in keeping with the running theme, and has a connection with the G.W. . Perhaps this is the novelist Mary Ward, aka Mrs Humphrey Ward; the author of 'Missing' (1917). 'Missing' "details the agonies felt by mothers and wives in the no man’s land between pain and fear, trying to track down their men reported missing, often destroyed without trace, in France." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 2 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Perhaps this is the novelist Mary Ward, aka Mrs Humphrey Ward; the author of 'Missing' (1917). 'Missing' "details the agonies felt by mothers and wives in the no man’s land between pain and fear, trying to track down their men reported missing, often destroyed without trace, in France." Not her U.G. She did, however, lose an extended family member in the Somme battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 Would it be Doris Bell Collier who wrote detective novels under the name of Josephine Bell, she to was a physician of note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 1 minute ago, Knotty said: Would it be Doris Bell Collier who wrote detective novels under the name of Josephine Bell, she to was a physician of note. No, not her either. She did write detective stories under a pseudonym though, and her main heroine is said to mirror one of Agatha Christie's. A very prolific writer. Her career ran parallel to Christie's, and their output was also numerically very similar. Although considered and described as British, she wasn't actually born in this country. Those clues should solve the mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 Ngaio Marsh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 4 minutes ago, seaJane said: Ngaio Marsh? Frayed knot sJ. The case is still open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 58 minutes ago, neverforget said: Frayed knot sJ. The case is still open. Patricia Wentworth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 34 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Patricia Wentworth? The case is closed. Well done. Wrote 68 detective novels which is exactly the same number written by A. Christie. Stepson was killed on the Somme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Wentworth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 Changing theme if I may ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 (edited) SJ, I'm not sure that we haven't had this chap on WIT before And I'm fairly sure that somewhere on this GWF is a thread with details about his son's career: A good AdC to his Dad in WWI, and a terrible and sad end in WWII regards Michael Edited 7 January , 2018 by michaeldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 sJ, Michael gave the game away, a definite French connection here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 4 minutes ago, Knotty said: Michael gave the game away, Sorry I did not intend the clue to be that strong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 (edited) I think you're both right Incidentally the picture is my own photograph of a frontispiece. Shall I tease you by asking which book? Edited 7 January , 2018 by seaJane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 43 minutes ago, seaJane said: Shall I tease you by asking which book Congratulations; your copy is probably original and it is certainly better than my reprint. Where I have an original history of one of the battalions, this portrait appears as the frontispiece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 7 January , 2018 Share Posted 7 January , 2018 (edited) Mine isn't a battalion history but a (joint) memoir. It's been rebound but the text-block is original. Edited 7 January , 2018 by seaJane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 8 January , 2018 Share Posted 8 January , 2018 Isn't it Harry Chauvel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 8 January , 2018 Share Posted 8 January , 2018 4 hours ago, neverforget said: Harry Chauvel? Don’t think I have ever seen a photo of him without his wearing an Aussie slouch hat, (In truth I may have, but not taken any notice) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 8 January , 2018 Share Posted 8 January , 2018 17 hours ago, seaJane said: Mine isn't a battalion history but a (joint) memoir Ah...so we' talking about the same portrait, but used in different books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 8 January , 2018 Share Posted 8 January , 2018 I'm at a loss as to whether it's Chauvel or not. It would be nice to know one way or the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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