Uncle George Posted 21 January , 2021 Share Posted 21 January , 2021 You are Ted Rogers and I claim my five pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 21 January , 2021 Share Posted 21 January , 2021 9 minutes ago, Uncle George said: You are Ted Rogers and I claim my five pounds. No, I'm Chalky White-and you are not in Brighton and not carrying a copy of the "Daily Mirror" . No £5!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 26 January , 2021 Share Posted 26 January , 2021 Hi guys... just stopping by quickly to say HAPPY NEW YEAR to the WIT-enthusiasts... three months to go before the research paper needs to be handed in, so I'm working and trying not to stray too much away from work and be tempted by forum chats... not easy! this being said, that Lord Crawford seems like an interesting figure. see you soon!! M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 26 January , 2021 Share Posted 26 January , 2021 3 hours ago, Marilyne said: HAPPY NEW YEAR And to you MM, and boyfriend, bear and the rest of the gang. Best of luck with the research paper. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 “ Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, Out in the trench with three hours' watch to take ... “ Who is this ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHJ Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Well done,RM- A C-G it is. The distinguished polar explorer who wrote a classic of travel and exploration literature-"The Worst Journey in the World "-hence the pic. above of commuters and the words that it was further south. He was a member of the party that found Scott's party dead in mid 1913- they had failed to get to One Ton Depot, their supply store- hence the reference to 11 miles short. A further picture shows the cross and the top of the cairn built by C-G as the tomb of Scott's party. I tried to give you lot a strong hint with the cherries on top of a Black Forest gateau-little realising the depths of the latent gluttony and cravings lurking out there. C-G. never recovered either physically or mentally from the Antarctic in 1912-1913, yet he must have had a reserve of physical toughness to have got through that. He held a commission in the RNVR for the first half of the war, serving in armoured cars for a time. Early in the war he was involved in a scheme for training "war dogs" given his experience of handling them in the south (My pic. was misleading- Yes, it was a mutt-my son's happy old mutt Rudi- alas,completely untrainable and hopeless as a "war dog") C-G was invalided out midway through the war and his 1912-1913 experiences troubled him greatly with what we would now call PTSD The dog training was for sniffing out the injured (& dead?) at the very start of the war but after that failed to work out he got involved in armoured cars and I think that this was why he was at Wormood Scrubs airship sheds in Nov 1914 (perhaps testing / training the vehicles - he had experience of motor transport in extreme conditions) when his own car was purloined by his own chauffeur! As reported by the Herts Advertiser on 28th Nov 1914. Image courtesy of Herts Archives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 10 minutes ago, SHJ said: The dog training was for sniffing out the injured (& dead?) at the very start of the war but after that failed to work out he got involved in armoured cars and I think that this was why he was at Wormood Scrubs airship sheds in Nov 1914 (perhaps testing / training the vehicles - he had experience of motor transport in extreme conditions) when his own car was purloined by his own chauffeur! As reported by the Herts Advertiser on 28th Nov 1914. Image courtesy of Herts Archives. Car stolen in London- Who says history doesn't repeat itself!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 5 hours ago, Uncle George said: “ Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, Out in the trench with three hours' watch to take ... “ Who is this ? ? ? A very young Ringo Starr? Is the photo from the Great War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Is the photo from the Great War? Yes. A very young Ringo Starr? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 A boy soldier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 1 hour ago, neverforget said: A boy soldier? He fibbed about his age and joined up at 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Walter Richie V.C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 5 minutes ago, neverforget said: Walter Richie V.C? No. “ ... Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it? … Starlight overhead- Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead. “ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Joe Bent VC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Joe Bent VC? No. Clue: his son brought us sunshine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Evening UG “Bring me sunshine”, is synonymous with the Morecambe and Wise Show and it was Sir William Cotton(Bill) who brought them to tv. Sir Bill was the son of Billy Cotton of “Wakey Wakey” fame, from his long running band show, who I will nominate as the drummer. The electric encyclopaedia, Wiki, says he was an underaged Royal Fusilier at Gallipoli, recommended for a commission before later transferring to the RFC. Cannot locate a picture so cannot confirm if it is him or not....yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 7 minutes ago, Knotty said: Evening UG “Bring me sunshine”, is synonymous with the Morecambe and Wise Show and it was Sir William Cotton(Bill) who brought them to tv. Sir Bill was the son of Billy Cotton of “Wakey Wakey” fame, from his long running band show, who I will nominate as the drummer. The electric encyclopaedia, Wiki, says he was an underaged Royal Fusilier at Gallipoli, recommended for a commission before later transferring to the RFC. Cannot locate a picture so cannot confirm if it is him or not....yet Correct on all counts. Quotes are from Sassoon’s ‘Trench Duty’: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trench-duty/ Image and story from here: https://stmargarets.london/archives/2017/03/when-billy-cotton-came-to-brentford.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 46 minutes ago, Knotty said: “Wakey Wakey” How about this thrusting young entrepreneur: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 Would 'hi di hi' be a tangental hint in this regard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 27 January , 2021 Share Posted 27 January , 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, Fattyowls said: Would 'hi di hi' be a tangental hint in this regard? Ho-de-ho! Yes, he is Billy Butlin. Image from Wikipedia. Edited 28 January , 2021 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 28 January , 2021 Share Posted 28 January , 2021 Frank Kellogg? Although thinking of that lovely hymn written in 1918 by the British Ambassador to Washington, I suppose it could be Sir Cecil Spring-Rice-Crispie.............. I'll get my coat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 28 January , 2021 Share Posted 28 January , 2021 20 hours ago, Uncle George said: Correct on all counts. Quotes are from Sassoon’s ‘Trench Duty’: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trench-duty/ Image and story from here: https://stmargarets.london/archives/2017/03/when-billy-cotton-came-to-brentford.html I wonder whether this piece from the second article would have helped: "Then in September 1936 he made an attempt on the World Land Speed Record driving Sir Malcolm Campbell’s 12 cylinder ‘Bluebird’, a car that according to Billy had only 2 speeds - ‘fast’ and ‘stop’. He didn’t break the record which stood at 276.82 mph but managed to scare himself rigid with a speed of 121.57mph on Southport Sands." I wouldn't have guessed that this was something that he'd done in a month of matinees! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 28 January , 2021 Share Posted 28 January , 2021 (edited) Who is this? 1930s photograph of GW worker. Also, are these both of the same woman? (I know exactly who is looking out at us from the grey Popperfoto/Getty Images portrait, but is she the same person as the sepia photograph from the archive where I work?) Edited 28 January , 2021 by seaJane made photos smaller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 28 January , 2021 Share Posted 28 January , 2021 20 minutes ago, seaJane said: Who is this? 1930s photograph of GW worker. Also, are these both of the same woman? (I know exactly who is looking out at us from the grey Popperfoto/Getty Images portrait, but is she the same person as the sepia photograph from the archive where I work?) I don’t know who she is, but I’d say the photos are of the same person. Ears, apparently, are as distinctive as fingerprints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 28 January , 2021 Share Posted 28 January , 2021 (edited) Jane- How about telling us who it is from the pic. you know- then we can scout around as to whether the other pic. names her anywhere. ...........and I thought you wanted the name of the dead fox around her shoulders- It could be Basil Brush's uncle..... Edited 28 January , 2021 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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