Ron Clifton Posted 28 December , 2018 Share Posted 28 December , 2018 Walter Citrine? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 Benjamin Tillett? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 11 hours ago, Ron Clifton said: Walter Citrine? Ron No, not Citrine. 1 hour ago, neverforget said: Benjamin Tillett? Yes! A very interesting man indeed. He was raised in abject poverty, the son of a labourer: "I was the youngest of eight children. My brave little mother, fighting a hopeless battle, died when I was just over a year old. Her mothering, the slavery of her devotion to her family, her endless services to others killed her. She came of gentle Irish stock, and was devoutly religious, but the drudgery of her life, hunger, pain, and suffering destroyed her body, though there was flame in her soul to the end." He became a firebrand union leader, strike organiser, agitator, socialist. Yet unlike Ramsay MacDonald and Keir Hardie he threw himself into support of the war: "His enthusiasm for aerial bombardment of German civilian centres and his views that pacifists should be severely punished, made him unpopular with many people in the labour movement. Tillett travelled throughout Britain and helped to recruit a large number of industrial workers into the armed forces." He was a Member of Parliament from 1917 to 1924, and from 1929 to 1931: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Tillett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 There is a road named after him: Ben Tillett Close, in the Docklands area of London (E16), not far from where I grew up (We had a Keir Hardie Way as well.) Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 (edited) Very generous clues Uncle George. Must be xmas or something. This chap would share some of the aspects of Tillett's C.V. Killed on the Somme. That'll do you for a start. Edited 29 December , 2018 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 57 minutes ago, neverforget said: Very generous clues Uncle George. Must be xmas or something. This chap would share some of the aspects of Tillett's C.V. Killed on the Somme. That'll do you for a start. Is he the activist and MP Tom Kettle? He was killed at Ginchy in 1916. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 2 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Is he the activist and MP Tom Kettle? He was killed at Ginchy in 1916. Indeed he is sir. Excellent deduction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kettle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaretnolan Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 3 hours ago, neverforget said: Indeed he is sir. Excellent deduction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kettle His name on Thiepval Memorial taken when we visited this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 Thank you Margaret 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 And thank you NF, been out all day and left when I had got as far as MP’s surnames beginning G, so saved me some time with you identifying correctly. Also to you UG for finding an as yet non submitted WIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 5 January , 2019 Share Posted 5 January , 2019 (edited) This chap was a General Officer during the First war, and a serving full General during the Second. He had a famous name. As it goes, his name was more famous than he was. To me anyway. Who is he ? ? ? EDIT: Image from here: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw110745/Sir-Charles-Bonham-Carter Edited 6 January , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 Gone through about 200 names so far. Nothing jumping out at me yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 33 minutes ago, neverforget said: Gone through about 200 names so far. Nothing jumping out at me yet. A clue to his Second war service: Gort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 I'm not confident but is it John Dill mon oncle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 4 minutes ago, Fattyowls said: I'm not confident but is it John Dill mon oncle? No Pete it is not. ‘Dill’ would not pass the ‘name more famous than the man’ test of #11234. Apart from to fans of ‘The Herb Garden’. Which I am. So that’s clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 Archibald Wavell? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 It wouldn't be John Kennedy by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 37 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Archibald Wavell? Ron Not he Ron, no. 35 minutes ago, neverforget said: It wouldn't be John Kennedy by any chance? A very good line of thinking. But no. My chap had a surname any scholar of Churchill would know in an instant. Or of Asquith come to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 (edited) Could it be Montgomery ? Not Bernard of course.... Edited 6 January , 2019 by stripeyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 13 minutes ago, stripeyman said: Could it be Montgomery ? Not Bernard of course.... Good thinking; but no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 Beckett? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 18 minutes ago, neverforget said: Beckett? No. My chap’s great-niece shares his surname and is (to use a catholic and rather vulgar word) a “celebrity”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 11 minutes ago, Uncle George said: No. My chap’s great-niece shares his surname and is (to use a catholic and rather vulgar word) a “celebrity”. Charles Bonham-Carter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 4 minutes ago, neverforget said: Charles Bonham-Carter? Yes! Well done indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2019 Share Posted 6 January , 2019 (edited) Here's a challenging one for you. This group of chaps have had a special mission assigned to them, just after the war. Who are they, and what, (should they choose to accept it) is their special mission??? Edited 6 January , 2019 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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