neverforget Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 Thanks Michael 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, neverforget said: absolutely zero interest not so much zero interest as zero intelligince interlegince innteligen cleverness on my part. As soon as I felt the temptation to do a Scooby Doo ending I ducked out, because it's not big and it's not clever, it's just showing off. Pete. Edited 17 December , 2020 by Fattyowls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 Cheers Pete.👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 (edited) Ok I’ve have a WIT, but there is no photo, and virtually no history, apart from his exploit, will his headstone suffice? If so you can have his name, so you will have to identify his reason for inclusion, or is that a silly idea? Edited 17 December , 2020 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 Variety is the spice of life so they say. Play on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 (edited) Ok I will give it a go. I have left his name on just incase the photo is poor. What is his significance? Edited 17 December , 2020 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 Hmm..Got me. Did he perhaps not actually die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 (edited) No he was definitely killed in action.(Dow) Clue, found in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Edited 18 December , 2020 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 Another clue, think about where the cemetery lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 In Belgium, west of Ieper and Poperinge, so does this suggest that he was killed a long way from where he was buried? Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 17 December , 2020 Share Posted 17 December , 2020 Hi Pete No he was buried near where he fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Another clue, the date bears some significance to his claim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Hi guys... back from two weeks intense work at school ... Lijssenthoek was a hospital field. So was he KIA or DOW??? Freak accident??? allergic reaction to vaccination?? kick in the head?? M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Hi M As far as I can ascertain he died of his wounds received earlier in action on the 10/10/1918. No accident etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 I can see that he had a brother, also serving with the Border reg killed in March the year before, who lies elsewhere, but other than that the penny is firmly lodged and refusing to drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Ok this should give it away, he is reputedly the final one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Last senior officer (lt. Col and above) killed in the Great War? If it is it will be another reason to wander about in Lijssenthoek which is not bad as places to wander around in go. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 (edited) Well done Pete almost, so you can have the credit Lt Col GE Beaty-Pownall, last commanding officer to be killed in the Ypres Salient. Page taken from Paul Chapman book on Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (cross ref with John Giles 1986 book Flanders Then and Now series), half way down. Edited 18 December , 2020 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Lucky in off the post. Bit of a fluke really. All the credit goes to the lads, it's about the team, I don't care who scores as long as we win. Please feel free to add any further post match interviews with the goalscorer clichés as you see fit. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 For me, I had about as much chance of scoring as Blues' chances of winning a game; (except when we play Reading) Sorry John. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 to quote on of our Dutch coaches: "Iiiiinteressting... " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 13 minutes ago, neverforget said: except when we play Reading The thread's other resident Reading fan may take umbrage at that too. It occurred to me to wonder who the last senior officer to die was, but it is complicated by individuals dying of wounds after the armistice. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Fattyowls said: dying of wounds Pete. As I almost did after Wednesday night's horror show.🙄 Edited 18 December , 2020 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 30 minutes ago, Fattyowls said: further post match interviews with the goalscorer clichés as you see fit Well Pete you must be over the moon with that result........well you did say 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 18 December , 2020 Share Posted 18 December , 2020 Who is this wounded, or should I say blessé individual. Clue - for one of the two Reading fans among the inmates - it's not Robert Nivelle........ Pete. 2 minutes ago, Knotty said: over the moon with that result You could say that, I'm definitely not sick as a parrot...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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