neverforget Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 5 minutes ago, Knotty said: Ok I will try Gabrielle D’Annunzio who “bombed” Vienna with thousands of leaflets. D'Annunzio it is. Well played. D'Annunzio and Harukichi Shimoi both collaberated to promote Ferrarin's record breaking flight, so that is something else that links the three of them, apart from all serving in the Italian armed forces. Shimoi and D'annunzio were both poets as previously stated, and both served to promote Mussolini and Facism in Italy between the wars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harukichi_Shimoi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_D'Annunzio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Ferrarin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heid the Ba Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 (edited) Edit: Never mind. Edited 29 March , 2019 by Heid the Ba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 That was a good bit of fun NF and well played H just beat me as NF pointed out. Have a go at this chap, not the first or last but a penultimate in 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 Well my first hunch went nowhere except to dig up a new chap for WIT. Getting nowhere with this yet. I'm hopeless at uniforms etc but is it safe to assume that he is an officer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 Commissioned on 30 Nov 1914 as 2nd Lt in 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, on 1st April 1916 he became a Lieutenant RFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 Ah That reinforces how far off I was with my initial thoughts. 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 I think I might have him. Is it Richard Raymond Barker? This from "Voices in flight" by Martin Bowman: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 29 March , 2019 Share Posted 29 March , 2019 (edited) Well played NF, you have him. He was the Red Baron’s 79th victim and the last airman he killed in action on the 20th April 1918. (His last, 80th victim, 2nd Lt David Lewis was wounded but survived). The following day, 21st April, Richthofen was killed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Raymond-Barker Edited 29 March , 2019 by Knotty Added Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 30 March , 2019 Share Posted 30 March , 2019 (edited) Was this a case of E.S.P? If so, not a happy one. Another "first". Edited 30 March , 2019 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 30 March , 2019 Share Posted 30 March , 2019 I will pass on this NF, I knew you were going to put him up at some stage😁, he is also in my repertoire of possible WIT candidates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 30 March , 2019 Share Posted 30 March , 2019 11 minutes ago, Knotty said: I knew you were going to put him up at some stage😁 Another case of E.S.P. then?😨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 30 March , 2019 Share Posted 30 March , 2019 Ah, the initials were a bit of a giveaway. A SAD story. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 30 March , 2019 Share Posted 30 March , 2019 Shall we try one without a picture, just to liven things up a bit. And no, he is not one of my relatives. He was a subaltern with a rifle battalion, though he did not die in a theatre of land operations. The manner of his death brought comment from Woodrow Wilson. His father, with whom he shared two of his rather unusual Christian names, was a vicar until the outbreak of war. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 30 March , 2019 Share Posted 30 March , 2019 Been trying, but can't get anywhere with that one yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 Would the country be a non belligerent and in this case Argentina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 Hello Knotty If you are referring to my post 1687, no, both countries involved were belligerents. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 Let's put my post #11683 to bed please, as the thread seems to have stagnated somewhat. One of just three to suffer a similar fate, his name is inscribed on a family grave in a Surrey churchyard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 Sorry NF I was under the impression he had been identified, he is 2nd Lt Eric Skeffington Poole, a Canadian by birth, serving with the West Yorkshire Regiment, he was given a general court martial in 1916, found guilty and he became the first British officer to be shot at dawn for desertion. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/people/poole.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 24 minutes ago, Knotty said: Sorry NF I was under the impression he had been identified, he is 2nd Lt Eric Skeffington Poole, a Canadian by birth, serving with the West Yorkshire Regiment, he was given a general court martial in 1916, found guilty and he became the first British officer to be shot at dawn for desertion. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/people/poole.htm Thank you John. E.S.Poole. it is. As you correctly state he served with 11th btn West Yorks, which was my great uncle John's battalion, so undoubtedly he would have discussed Poole's case with his pals. I've looked at the btn war diary for Dec 16, but can find no reference to the execution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 17 minutes ago, neverforget said: I've looked at the btn war diary for Dec 16, but can find no reference to the execution. Have you looked at the files in WO154? These are items extracted from the A&Q war diaries of various divisions and corps, and appear to relate to the capital cases. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 2 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Have you looked at the files in WO154? These are items extracted from the A&Q war diaries of various divisions and corps, and appear to relate to the capital cases. Ron I haven't, as I wasn't aware of the facility, so thanks for the nod. Would I have to buy them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 2 hours ago, Ron Clifton said: Have you looked at the files in WO154? These are items extracted from the A&Q war diaries of various divisions and corps, and appear to relate to the capital cases. Ron I've performed a search for Skeffington Poole in the search box, but it returned zero results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 Here is the reference to his court martial file: GENERAL COURTS MARTIAL WO 71/1027 Poole, E. S. Offence: Desertion 1916 I don't think that these files have been digitised, so you would probably have to make a personal visit to Kew. Good luck! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 4 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Here is the reference to his court martial file: GENERAL COURTS MARTIAL WO 71/1027 Poole, E. S. Offence: Desertion 1916 I don't think that these files have been digitised, so you would probably have to make a personal visit to Kew. Good luck! Ron Ok thanks Ron. How about another clue to help your bloke along? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 31 March , 2019 Share Posted 31 March , 2019 He is buried in Dublin, but there is also a Leinster connection. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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