Uncle George Posted 22 March , 2019 Share Posted 22 March , 2019 35 minutes ago, neverforget said: George Percival Scriven? Yes that’s him. A long career, including service during the Boxer Rebellion, and from 1914 to 1917 the commander of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, the early US Air Force. Image from here: https://archive.org/details/TheUSAirServiceInWWIVol2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 March , 2019 Share Posted 22 March , 2019 (edited) After that rather underwhelming WiT, who might this be ? ? ? Very much on-theme: EDIT: Image from Wikipedia. Edited 23 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 March , 2019 Share Posted 22 March , 2019 Looks like Omar Sharif as Dr Zhivago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 Is he Russian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 51 minutes ago, neverforget said: Is he Russian? No. Here’s a clue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 He has a look of Gerd von Rundstedt, but identification confidence is in seriously short supply (I blame panic buying)...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 (edited) 55 minutes ago, Uncle George said: That first medal looks like an AFC? Edited 23 March , 2019 by michaeldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 35 minutes ago, michaeldr said: That first medal looks like an AFC? Yes, an AFC. That was my clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 1 hour ago, Fattyowls said: He has a look of Gerd von Rundstedt, but identification confidence is in seriously short supply (I blame panic buying)...... Rundstedt always seems surprisingly slight, it has seen to me. More so than this chap anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 Is it Richard Williams. "Father of the A.F.C"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 (edited) 9 minutes ago, neverforget said: Is it Richard Williams. "Father of the A.F.C"? No - I am pursuing the Billy Mitchell/George Scriven theme. By highlighting his AFC I meant to show that he was British/British Dominions. Edited 23 March , 2019 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 March , 2019 Share Posted 23 March , 2019 (edited) Is it Billy Mitchell’s cousin George Croil? https://prabook.com/web/george.croil/2304105 Edited 23 March , 2019 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 24 March , 2019 Share Posted 24 March , 2019 12 hours ago, Knotty said: Is it Billy Mitchell’s cousin George Croil? https://prabook.com/web/george.croil/2304105 Yes! Born in the US, he enlisted as a private soldier at the start of the First war in the Gordon Highlanders. But more to the point of this theme, according to this site he “is considered by many to be the Father of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).”: https://web.archive.org/web/20120118020958/http://airforce.ca/magazine/last-postings/a-f/ And as you say, Mitchell’s first cousin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Wild guess to start off with: American, and not naval? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 I've seen that face ... an author??? M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Both right, although I dithered a bit about author. Writer, certainly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 (edited) Is it Gerald Morgan, American war correspondent? Edit: (Changed my mind.) Edited 25 March , 2019 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Is he Arthur Guy Empey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 (edited) No and no, sorry chaps. Poet (although as far as I recall his main work about his wartime experience was prose). Edited 25 March , 2019 by seaJane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Harry Elmore Hurd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Did he pen “Up the Line to Death”? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 NF - not he. Knotty - The poet in question does indeed feature in Brian Gardner's anthology with that title (which is a quotation from Sassoon's poem 'Base details'). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Edward Cummings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 25 March , 2019 Share Posted 25 March , 2019 Alan Seeger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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