Who is This ? ? ?

[neverforget]

1 minute ago, Knotty said:

Just finished watching an old film based in the 70’s and came across your new entry and blow me down, that sir is Henri Barbusse, and if you had waited a bit longer one of my up and coming entries lined up would have been the self same picture, continuing from a theme a couple of weeks back.

He wrote one of the first books published on the war called Under Fire, the link below gives some details of its content. He was rather an older volunteer in 1914 to be in the first tranche of the French army and was invalided out of fighting after being declared unfit, but he remained on the clerical side of things. He survived the war and died in Russia in 1935.(see Wiki below), a colourful character is the parlance probably used now to describe his life.

 

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/884270383

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse

 

 

ps that’s one less in my collection of WITs

Barbusse it is. My next clue was to refer to being "under fire." Comprehensive answer John, nothing for me to add. 

[seaJane]

We may have had this chap - I don't know. Barbusse reminded me of him, somehow.

[Guest]

 

Can I put this chap up as well?    You want clues as well?  Oh, you spoilt, spoilt sybaritic  flaneurs!!    Oh,alright then----------   a) Delivery company   Worked in a passport office in London during the war  c)  Not related to Jeremy Thorpe

 

[Uncle George]

8 hours ago, seaJane said:

We may have had this chap - I don't know. Barbusse reminded me of him, somehow.

 

Easy - he's Lord Peter Wimsey (Rifle Brigade, DSO, etc ... )

[Guest]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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       I thought Henri Barbusse looked a deal more similar to Herr Flick.  But no matter-any excuse to put up a pic. of Ian Carmichael (An artillery officer of the Second World War,I believe)- the best Peter Wimsey

 

[Uncle George]

 

Can I put this chap up as well?    You want clues as well?  Oh, you spoilt, spoilt sybaritic  flaneurs!!    Oh,alright then----------   a) Delivery company   Worked in a passport office in London during the war  c)  Not related to Jeremy Thorpe

 

Not every clue fits, but I'm going with A Man Called Intrepid, William Stephenson.

[ajsmith]

On 18/04/2018 at 23:48, Knotty said:

Well played ajs, that was a bit of a challenge NF, nowhere near working that one out

I have to confess something here. It's possible to use google to search for an image not just text. I promise not to do it again as it rather spoils the fun. The best way to stop everyone doing it is to crop the image and maybe colourise it a little. So for instance google can't recognise the attached version.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Uncle George said:

 

Not every clue fits, but I'm going with A Man Called Intrepid, William Stephenson.

 

Alas,No UG-  wrong nationality.  This man's work in London is a classic red herring-even by WIT standards. The delivery service clue is reference to a very old gag-I have my coat ready to go when you get this chap. 

[Knotty]

Ok GUEST, you’ll probably have to get your coat, I have, accordingly to the good lady here indoors, wasted spent a couple of hours trawling around to get the answer, do you want his nom de plume, or his birth name, especially as he finally gave up his medical specialisation to concentrate on his writings.

 

[neverforget]

2 hours ago, ajsmith said:

I have to confess something here. It's possible to use google to search for an image not just text. I promise not to do it again as it rather spoils the fun. The best way to stop everyone doing it is to crop the image and maybe colourise it a little. So for instance google can't recognise the attached version.

Hi ajs. Good of you to come clean, but those of us who are slightly more long-term inmates are fully aware of this function, and practice a self denying ordinance when it comes to that, otherwise the thread descends into a meaningless exercise. We don't really have any rules as such, but google image searching is deemed a cardinal sin.

Seeing as it a first offence, and with mitigation, the lopping off of just one hand will suffice on this occasion. 

Edited 20 April , 2018 by neverforget

[Guest]

On 20/04/2018 at 14:53, Knotty said:

Ok, you’ll probably have to get your coat, I have, accordingly to the good lady here indoors, wasted spent a couple of hours trawling around to get the answer, do you want his nom de plume, or his birth name, especially as he finally gave up his medical specialisation to concentrate on his writings.

 

 

    Everything- hat size as well,please.  Then I can put you out of  into misery  about the delivery service-if you haven't worked out the extremely weak joke in it's-worse than Arthur Askey (and that's going some)

[ajsmith]

1 hour ago, neverforget said:

Hi ajs. Good of you to come clean, but those of us who are slightly more long-term inmates are fully aware of this function, and practice a self denying ordinance when it comes to that, otherwise the thread descends into a meaningless exercise. We don't really have any rules as such, but google image searching is deemed a cardinal sin.

Seeing as it a first offence, and with mitigation, the lopping off of just one hand will suffice on this occasion. 

I appreciate your benevolence and merciful attitude in this case NF no more right clicking for me.

[neverforget]

32 minutes ago, ajsmith said:

I appreciate your benevolence and merciful attitude in this case NF no more right clicking for me.

Good man, and welcome to the asylum 👍

[Knotty]

Here goes, I believe, it is Louis-Ferdinand Céline the nom de plume of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, quite a brilliant(my opinion) but cantankerous man. He enlisted in the French army in 1912, and subsequently was there at the start of the war before being wounded in 1915, sent to London he had a clerical position in the French passport office, but his wound proved to be more serious and he was invalided out of the service and returned home.

After the war in 1919 he decided to enter the field of medicine, qualifying in 1923 as a doctor, specialising in obstetrics including “delivery”, his first post being in a maternity hospital.

Early in 1930’s, after toying with the idea for several years, he gave up medical practice and move into the field of writing, in which he had success.

You can follow his life here:-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_Céline

 

Hat size, unknown, about 7½ but I would have thought a beret would have been more appropriate 

[Fattyowls]

2 hours ago, neverforget said:

Seeing as it a first offence, and with mitigation, the lopping off of just one hand will suffice on this occasion. 

 

In my day any inmate caught thus would be directed to get out the best scotch, fill one chamber of the service revolver and do the decent thing. What's the world coming to?

 

I concur with NF, AJS strikes me as both a good egg and a splendid chap, and definitely not a rum cove, so I think we should overlook the totally heinous and most non triumphant nature of the crime. I'll keep quiet about being the only inmate who doesn't know how to use the software for fear of ribbing in the dorm after lights out. Frankly the prospect of me solving a WiT? by reasoning and investigation is ludicrously remote at the moment, so not knowing how to is probably a Good Thing.

 

Pete

 

 

 

[Uncle George]

Yes, a warm welcome to ajs. Who's this then ? ? ?

 

(Still getting nowhere with sJ's.)

 

 

EDIT: something tells me we've had this chap ... maybe not

Edited 20 April , 2018 by Uncle George

[neverforget]

37 minutes ago, Uncle George said:

Yes, a warm welcome to ajs. Who's this then ? ? ?

 

(Still getting nowhere with sJ's.)

 

 

EDIT: something tells me we've had this chap ... maybe not

He does have a familiar look about him but I haven't a clue who he might be.

I thought you had solved sJane's chap, but if not I haven't a clue who he might be either 🤔

[Knotty]

3 hours ago, neverforget said:

Seeing as it a first offence, and with mitigation, the lopping off of just one hand will suffice on this occasion. 

 

Did you perchance watch the film "The Hand" on the  Talking Pictures channel, late yesterday.

[neverforget]

4 minutes ago, Knotty said:

 

Did you perchance watch the film "The Hand" on the  Talking Pictures channel, late yesterday.

Not much chance of watching any telly I'm afraid as I'm working 12hr night shifts at the moment. However, that does give me plenty of time for W.I.T. (Breakdowns permitting).

[RaySearching]

1 hour ago, Uncle George said:

Yes, a warm welcome to ajs. Who's this then ? ? ?

 

(Still getting nowhere with sJ's.)

 

 

EDIT: something tells me we've had this chap ... maybe not

 

Time for an interlude

with a clue for the above

 

 

Ray

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Knotty said:

Here goes, I believe, it is Louis-Ferdinand Céline the nom de plume of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, quite a brilliant(my opinion) but cantankerous man. He enlisted in the French army in 1912, and subsequently was there at the start of the war before being wounded in 1915, sent to London he had a clerical position in the French passport office, but his wound proved to be more serious and he was invalided out of the service and returned home.

After the war in 1919 he decided to enter the field of medicine, qualifying in 1923 as a doctor, specialising in obstetrics including “delivery”, his first post being in a maternity hospital.

Early in 1930’s, after toying with the idea for several years, he gave up medical practice and move into the field of writing, in which he had success.

You can follow his life here:-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_Céline

 

Hat size, unknown, about 7½ but I would have thought a beret would have been more appropriate 

 

      Spot on Knotty-     Of course, any of his books in French would be "par Celine"    -or Parceline......I'll get my coat

[Fattyowls]

48 minutes ago, neverforget said:

(Breakdowns permitting).

 

Reassure me that it's the machinery and not you. You know how I worry. I'm learning a lot about the Marines on Guadalcanal but no closer to an id, as to the others I can't even remember what they look like, let alone identify them. The pressure is relentless.

 

Pete.

[Uncle George]

1 hour ago, neverforget said:

He does have a familiar look about him but I haven't a clue who he might be.

 

 

I thought a namesake WiT might be a nice hello. This chap is not ajs;  but hms. Not 'HMS', I emphasise.

[neverforget]

12 minutes ago, voltaire60 said:

 

      Spot on Knotty-     Of course, any of his books in French would be "par Celine"    -or Parceline......I'll get my coat

And hat too for that clue mate..🤕

[neverforget]

9 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

 

Reassure me that it's the machinery and not you.

 

Pete.

Could go either way in this place mate, or even both ways.😓