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I know this thread is for people to identify a person that the poster knows the identity of but if you fancy a variation on that theme this thread might be of interest.

 

 

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I can give you a shortlist (from Becke, Part 4) but no firm identification:

Brig-Gen J C Harding Newman (DA&QMG)

Brig-Gen G Humphreys (BGRA)

Brig-Gen G B Mackenzie (Cdr Heavy Art)

Brig-Gen R A Gillam (Chief Eng)

 

Ron

EDIT: Sorry, I see from the post in Soldiers that you already have this information.

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Yes, and if you read that thread you will see that I have ruled out H-N and thus narrowed down to the other 3. 

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Tom Jones has just told Ll.G the "If bread is the staff of life, what is the life of the staff?" joke ... (Photo from Getty.)

 

 

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3 hours ago, Uncle George said:

 

So who is this chap, and what is his connection to Arthur Askey?

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Is he a vicar or something similar?

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19 minutes ago, neverforget said:

Is he a vicar or something similar?

 

No - a journalist.

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16 hours ago, rolt968 said:

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A self portrait. Whose?

That's actor Simon Cadell's great-uncle Francis of the A&SH, although I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't been following assorted trails about Simon a while back. 

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On ‎14‎/‎05‎/‎2018 at 16:11, seaJane said:

That's actor Simon Cadell's great-uncle Francis of the A&SH, although I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't been following assorted trails about Simon a while back. 

Well done.

 

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937), one of the Scottish Colourist painters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cadell_(artist) (source of the picture).

He served in the ranks of 9 Royal Scots, then commissioned in the A&SH.

Brother of actor Jean Cadell and great uncle of actors Simon Cadell and Selina Cadell.

(I had rather a good clue about a holiday camp lined up.

 

I came across him quite a few years ago when I saw a play about the Scottish Colourists. At the time I didn't pick up that he had been commissioned.

 

RM

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On 14/05/2018 at 10:56, Uncle George said:

 

So who is this chap, and what is his connection to Arthur Askey?

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Can't quite make him out. Is it Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett?

Bartlett and Askey both have strong connections to the name Murdoch?

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32 minutes ago, neverforget said:

Can't quite make him out. Is it Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett?

Bartlett and Askey both have strong connections to the name Murdoch?

 

Not EA-B: but you're practically there.  

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Is it actually K. Murdoch then?

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6 hours ago, Uncle George said:

 

Yes it is. The Arthur Askey connection of course is to his collaborator 'Stinker' Murdoch. Image from here:

 

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/murdoch_keith_arthur_sir

 

 

"Ay-Thang-Yaw"

I see that Arthur Askey's wiki page misleadingly describes him as a comedian. 

 

 

 

 

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Who is this lady. Starred in a WW1 themed film. For her part in WW1 was both awarded the O.B.E. and received 15 years in the clink.

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On 15/05/2018 at 22:12, voltaire60 said:

Lady Rhondda?

No not her. 

She was actually sentenced to death but received a reprieve. 

Strong link to the Old Contemptibles, and a much more well known heroine.

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11 minutes ago, voltaire60 said:

Louise Thuliez?

Frayed knot. 

Born in Ireland.

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She played the part of herself in the film I mentioned. (No pun intended).

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Something to do with Edith Cavell?

 

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This lady took some finding NF, she is Ada Bodart, friend, acquaintance and member of the same underground network as Edith Cavell. Arrested by the Germans at the same time, she was sentenced to 15 years hard labour, Cavell was given the death sentence. She played herself in a 1920’s film depicting the story of Cavell

http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/2141

 

And seaJane has just pipped me to the post.

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Ada Bodart it is. 

"Sunderland Daily Echo – 12 November 1935:

MONS VETERANS’ VISIT TO HOSPITAL

“Madame Ada Bodart, the Irish woman by birth who helped Nurse Cavell to secure the escape of many men lost behind the German lines in 1914, is ill in hospital, says Reuter’s Mons correspondent.

She is the “godmother” of the Old Contemptibles’ Association, and Mons Veterans of the Duchy of Cornwall, now on an Armistice pilgrimage to Belgium, hurried to her bedside on learning of her illness.

Madame Bodart, who was formerly Miss Doherty, usually accompanies the Old Contemptibles to Mons on Armistice Day.

There was a touching scene as the little group of Mons Veterans, wearing their medals, stood by her bedside and expressed their wishes for her speedy recovery.

Last year one of the Old Contemptibles gave Madame Bodart his Mons Star, saying: “You deserve it as much as I do.” (Reuter).”

Born Anna Maria Doherty on 22 July 1874 at Newry in County Down, Ada Bodart had been part of the network that had sheltered allied soldiers trapped behind German lines in Belgium and aided them to escape into neutral Holland. A close friend of Edith Cavell, Bodart had accompanied fugitive soldiers by train to Haecht, from where they then made their way on foot to the Dutch frontier. Sentenced to fifteen years’ hard labour by the Germans in October 1915, Bodart was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1919, in recognition of her part in aiding servicemen to escape from behind enemy lines during the Great War. She also received decorations from the Belgian and French governments.

Ada Bodart O.B.E. died at Brussels on 6 February 1936.

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Lovely to dip back into my favourite thread and see it still steaming ahead with the mix of wit and wisdom that has always been it's trademark. Half term coming up so hope to get involved in the action a bit (although haven't had a clue about any of the folk over the last few pages so I may be being a tad optimistic!)

 

David

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3 minutes ago, David Ridgus said:

 haven't had a clue about any of the folk over the last few pages.....

 

Join the club. Notwithstanding the paraphrase of Groucho Marx's gag and repeated by Woody Allen of course. And not the one about what the elephant was doing in his pyjamas.....

 

Pete.

 

P.S. I did enjoy the kicking that Arthur Askey's reputation got however.

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2 hours ago, David Ridgus said:

so hope to get involved in the action a bit

 

  Don't you worry- We are searching the records of Bulgarian,Serbian and Roumanian battalion commanders to find one with a connection to Berkshire....

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