daggers Posted 13 June , 2020 Share Posted 13 June , 2020 A crumb or two: Commissioned 1903, C/O 1st Bn 1916, cmd Brigade 1918, an MiD or two, DSO 1916. Knighted 1945. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 13 June , 2020 Share Posted 13 June , 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, daggers said: A crumb or two: Commissioned 1903, C/O 1st Bn 1916, cmd Brigade 1918, an MiD or two, DSO 1916. Knighted 1945. D Then surely it was Victor Morven Fortune? Edited 13 June , 2020 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 13 June , 2020 Share Posted 13 June , 2020 Also seen here with a very familiar face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 13 June , 2020 Share Posted 13 June , 2020 Well done! I must find the photo, but not now needed. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 13 June , 2020 Share Posted 13 June , 2020 3 minutes ago, daggers said: Well done! I must find the photo, but not now needed. D Fascinating story Dags; worth checking out even without the photo. I'd never come across him before. And congratulations to NF for not letting little details like the absence of the visual get in the way of a good spot. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 15 June , 2020 Share Posted 15 June , 2020 what's the background of the photo??? I'm Learning new things… M; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 15 June , 2020 Share Posted 15 June , 2020 I'm guessing at St Velery en Caux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Fortune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 15 June , 2020 Share Posted 15 June , 2020 2 minutes ago, jonbem said: I'm guessing at St Velery en Caux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Fortune Ah - a further search suggests Cherbourg https://albumwar2.com/erwin-rommel-and-the-prisoner-major-general-sir-victor-morven-fortune/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 15 June , 2020 Share Posted 15 June , 2020 thanks. Very interesting indeed!! M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 15 June , 2020 Share Posted 15 June , 2020 2 hours ago, Marilyne said: thanks. Very interesting indeed! If you are very interested have a look for Operation Cycle and Operation Aerial; the numbers of troops evacuated separately from Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk are surprising. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 17 June , 2020 Share Posted 17 June , 2020 I think this man is probably very easy to find. (Bonus for anyone who can say with which unit he served in France.) RM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 17 June , 2020 Share Posted 17 June , 2020 First guess he's a piper... with the bandolier... I think I have an idea but it's too easy... so I'm leaving the rest of you to think. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 June , 2020 Share Posted 17 June , 2020 Following M’s lead I will have a guess at Piper Daniel Laidlaw VC, of the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He is the only one I can name for definite.🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 17 June , 2020 Share Posted 17 June , 2020 30 minutes ago, Knotty said: Following M’s lead I will have a guess at Piper Daniel Laidlaw VC, of the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He is the only one I can name for definite.🙂 No, not Daniel Laidlaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 June , 2020 Share Posted 17 June , 2020 Piper George Findlater VC, of the 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 18 June , 2020 Share Posted 18 June , 2020 1 hour ago, Knotty said: Piper George Findlater VC, of the 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders? Well done. Latterly Sergeant Piper Later 11 Gordon Highlanders and its Training Reserve equivalant. The picture is from the obituary in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal of 12 March 1942. Readers of George McDonald Fraser might be interested in the following extract from the Press and Journal of 2 January 1947: RM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Abbott Posted 19 June , 2020 Share Posted 19 June , 2020 On 18/06/2020 at 02:54, rolt968 said: I think this man is probably very easy to find. (Bonus for anyone who can say with which unit he served in France.) RM Certainly wasn't in the army when that was taken! No collar bages, a small plaid brooch rather than a cap badge in his glengarry and what appears to be a Black Watch or Royal Scots (or civilian?) plaid brooch but no piper's plaid. Furthermore, his musician 'wings' are on the wrong shoulders! Facing backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 19 June , 2020 Share Posted 19 June , 2020 On 17/06/2020 at 23:00, rolt968 said: No, not Daniel Laidlaw. was my first idea... good thing I kept my mouth shut... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 19 June , 2020 Share Posted 19 June , 2020 9 hours ago, Ron Abbott said: Certainly wasn't in the army when that was taken! No collar bages, a small plaid brooch rather than a cap badge in his glengarry and what appears to be a Black Watch or Royal Scots (or civilian?) plaid brooch but no piper's plaid. Furthermore, his musician 'wings' are on the wrong shoulders! Facing backwards. (I was hoping that might be a kind of double bluff - not dressed as an army piper, so not a famous piper. It didn't work!) Going by his age it's probably the uniform of the Turriff Pipe Band of which he was pipe major. Had he been younger it might have been what he wore when he appeared in music halls (to the disapproval of the powers that be). RM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolt968 Posted 19 June , 2020 Share Posted 19 June , 2020 4 hours ago, Marilyne said: was my first idea... good thing I kept my mouth shut... M. You could be forgiven for that. In quite a lot of the illustrations in things like cigarette cards they look remarkably similar. I was surprised when Ifound the photos of Findlater at Netley that he seems to have been quite thick set. Quite a lot of his record survives at findmypast. If I have got his date of birth right, he readjusted his age one way when he enlisted first and the other way when he re-enlisted in 1914. I think (bits of it are indistinct) that the medal section indicates that he was entitled to the clasp for the Tirah but does not mention his VC. RM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 20 June , 2020 Share Posted 20 June , 2020 Who is this show off??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 20 June , 2020 Share Posted 20 June , 2020 That looks strangely like a Martyside S1 scout, without giving to much away😁 I do know who it is, as I gave a talk on his exploits about a year or so ago, to a local military history group. It’s sad to think that when he died his grave went unattended by his family and “lost” for over 50 years and it wasn’t until 2018 that it was finally found in the county of his birth and restored by his local museum, his epitaph reads “Farmer and pioneer in the air.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 21 June , 2020 Share Posted 21 June , 2020 On 13/06/2020 at 14:38, daggers said: Well done! I must find the photo, but not now needed. D Some chap has this photograph on Ebay and says its General Patton with Rommel...…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 21 June , 2020 Share Posted 21 June , 2020 16 hours ago, Knotty said: That looks strangely like a Martyside S1 scout, without giving to much away😁 I do know who it is, as I gave a talk on his exploits about a year or so ago, to a local military history group. It’s sad to think that when he died his grave went unattended by his family and “lost” for over 50 years and it wasn’t until 2018 that it was finally found in the county of his birth and restored by his local museum, his epitaph reads “Farmer and pioneer in the air.” Yes it is a strange drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Bentley Posted 21 June , 2020 Share Posted 21 June , 2020 On 21/05/2020 at 10:10, neverforget said: He was an English public schoolboy, and born in Manchester. However, the collar pin might be a good spot on your part, as it is true that he did spend some time in America, which included him getting married, and also spending 18 months in jail for a completely unrelated offence. My father wore a "pin" in his collar and he was certainly NOT American! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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