neverforget Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 Continuing the sporting theme, another international. Wounded on the Somme, but survived the war and was able to resume his playing career afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 1 hour ago, neverforget said: Continuing the sporting theme, another international. Wounded on the Somme, but survived the war and was able to resume his playing career afterwards. Is he Fred Bullock, Huddersfield Town and England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 I 1 minute ago, Uncle George said: Is he Fred Bullock, Huddersfield Town and England? He isn't but you're on the correct shaped ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 Tommy Boyle, Burnley and England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 7 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Tommy Boyle, Burnley and England? No. Before and after the war he played for for Reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 30 minutes ago, neverforget said: No. Before and after the war he played for for Reading Ted Hanney? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 26 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Ted Hanney? The very same. Well played. https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/ted-hanney/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 16 March , 2019 Share Posted 16 March , 2019 (edited) Sprinting away from sport now. This man described Kitchener as, “an outstanding personality of great value in spite of certain defects.” Who is he ? ? ? EDIT: Image from here: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/charles-hardinge-1st-baron-hardinge-of-penshurst-157419 Edited 18 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 17 March , 2019 Share Posted 17 March , 2019 He was rather opinionated, this chap. Here he is on Ll.G at the Peace Conference: ”Lloyd George was quite the most dangerous representative it was possible to have. Still, unfitted as he was for the position he held in Paris, he always had a singular charm and was, when he chose, a most delightful and amusing companion.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 Nor did he have much time for Curzon: ”I have often discussed Curzon with our mutual friends and I have always maintained that in him there were embodied two entirely different personalities which showed themselves according to surrounding circumstances. The one was a delightful, amusing, clever and most charming companion, while the other was a hard and relentless man, and the more one saw this side of him the more one almost hated him.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 Is it Edward House? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 (edited) 34 minutes ago, neverforget said: Is it Edward House? It is not. Let us look at Ll.G’s ‘War Memoirs’, and this chap’s index references: Commander Wedgwood emphasises blunders of, 483; rejects offer of help in Mesopotamia, 491; deceives Home Government about troops available in India, 492; severely censured, 492-3. Edited 18 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 I have his War Memoirs, so I won't look but will pursue alternative lines of enquiry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 (edited) Here he is on the “change of personnel in the Government, Lloyd George becoming Prime Minister”: wonderful charm. Edited 18 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 18 March , 2019 Admin Share Posted 18 March , 2019 Arthur Bigge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 19 minutes ago, Michelle Young said: Arthur Bigge? Not him, no. Here’s my chap again, once more on Ll.G at Paris: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 Is it Lord Milner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 27 minutes ago, seaJane said: Is it Lord Milner? No. Before the War he chaired a sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, which sub-Committee dealt with foreign espionage. He reveals: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 Charles Hardinge (your Indian clue was v helpful) The portrait which you chose makes him look somewhat surprised and the (enjoyable) quotes you give suggest someone who has just commented harshly on a well known contemporary and is waiting for a reaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 18 March , 2019 Share Posted 18 March , 2019 (edited) 35 minutes ago, michaeldr said: Charles Hardinge (your Indian clue was v helpful) The portrait which you chose makes him look somewhat surprised and the (enjoyable) quotes you give suggest someone who has just commented harshly on a well known contemporary and is waiting for a reaction Yes indeed, A remarkable career, including Viceroy, Ambassador to Russia and to France, and (twice) Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office. Quotes are from his autobiography, ‘Old Diplomacy’ (1947): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216312 He writes of “constant raids on London of squadrons of German aeroplanes and Zeppelin airships”: Edited 18 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 March , 2019 Share Posted 19 March , 2019 Who is this brave gentleman who's gallantry was not officially recognised in his lifetime??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 19 March , 2019 Share Posted 19 March , 2019 Is he Canadian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 19 March , 2019 Share Posted 19 March , 2019 1 minute ago, Uncle George said: Is he Canadian? Indeed so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 20 March , 2019 Share Posted 20 March , 2019 Going to pass on that one... good luck everyone!! M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 March , 2019 Share Posted 20 March , 2019 21 minutes ago, Marilyne said: Going to pass on that one... good luck everyone!! M. He performed an act of valour at Vimy, and was recommended for a gallantry award, which because of the prejudices of the time, didn't see the light of day. However, after pressure from his peers and others for amost a hundred years, his courage was eventually recognised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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