Marilyne Posted 11 April , 2021 Share Posted 11 April , 2021 Aren't you making this too easy??? Top of my head I'd say Miss Rose Coombs ... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 April , 2021 Share Posted 11 April , 2021 Hi M Thats a big No it is not her,mind you I can see the similarity😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 11 April , 2021 Share Posted 11 April , 2021 Would have been too easy, right??? M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 11 April , 2021 Share Posted 11 April , 2021 6 hours ago, Marilyne said: Aren't you making this too easy??? Top of my head I'd say Miss Rose Coombs ... M. You're not on your own Marilyne; Rose was my first thought too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 April , 2021 Share Posted 11 April , 2021 Ok first clue, she is American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 April , 2021 Share Posted 11 April , 2021 Edith Wilson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 Mary McMillan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 Good morning I afraid neither of the latest two entries are the person I’m looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 (edited) She is Opha May Johnson. EDIT: I came across her some time ago while posting about Ginger Rogers’ mother, who as you will remember was, during the First war, a sergeant in the US Marine Corps. Edited 12 April , 2021 by Uncle George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 Have we had this chap yet ? ? ? He was dismissed from his command in 1914. However, “... it should be added in mitigation that collision between ships was not that uncommon ... “ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 44 minutes ago, Uncle George said: She is Opha May Johnson. and what makes this lady so special??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 Opha May Johnson. first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps as part of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 Thanks. I can only guess the new gentlemen had the misfortune of causing a collision between his ship and another ... there's a couple of mishaps in 1914... HMS Hawke (but the captain had a beard not sported by this gentleman) and the Empress of India. But I have to research some C2 system resilience for the Land Paper right now.. so I'll leave the honors to somebody else. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 26 minutes ago, Marilyne said: But I have to research some C2 system resilience for the Land Paper right now.. We’ve all been there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 Look at that, go out for the afternoon and UG identifies and nf fills in the details👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 April , 2021 Share Posted 12 April , 2021 6 minutes ago, Knotty said: Look at that, go out for the afternoon and UG identifies and nf fills in the details👍 I thought I was solving it actually😁 as I hadn't seen the good Uncle's post, but well done to him for beating me by a lap or two, or more accurately, a country mile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 13 April , 2021 Share Posted 13 April , 2021 My chap achieved the rare, Carswellian feat of, as a popular sitting MP, resigning from one party to fight and win the seat for another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 14 April , 2021 Share Posted 14 April , 2021 As usual I haven't a clue on this one but confessing that allows me to wish Knotty happy birthday. Enjoy every minute of it John. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 14 April , 2021 Share Posted 14 April , 2021 Still have no idea who Uncle George's chap is but thought I's step by and say I finished that Land Ops Paper (managing the English babbling of a wallonian, a moroccan and a german colleague) and it seems I'm right on time to wish Knotty a Happy Birthday. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 14 April , 2021 Share Posted 14 April , 2021 Thanks guys, just back in after a very enjoyable day👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 15 April , 2021 Share Posted 15 April , 2021 More, then, on our incompetent commander: he was first elected to Parliament, riding an anti-Coalition wave, as an Asquithian Liberal in 1919. I say “incompetent”; he is described in a 2009 study of the First War Naval staff as an officer “who was neither easy to work with nor necessarily very competent ... “. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 15 April , 2021 Share Posted 15 April , 2021 10 minutes ago, Uncle George said: who was neither easy to work with nor necessarily very competent that then leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kenworthy,_10th_Baron_Strabolgi#:~:text="That Kenworthy stayed [at the,with nor necessarily very competent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 15 April , 2021 Share Posted 15 April , 2021 Joseph Montague Kenworthy? The clues seem to fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 15 April , 2021 Share Posted 15 April , 2021 Yes, Joseph Kenworthy, Lord Strabolgi. He became a Labour MP in 1926. You will have seen in Wikipedia Nicholas Black’s assessment of him in ‘The British Naval Staff in the First World War’ (2009): “That Kenworthy stayed [at the Naval Staff] for only five months was probably the result of factors beyond the need to employ invalid staff. A reading of his service record and his memoirs suggest that he was a man who was neither easy to work with nor necessarily very competent. His memoirs are particularly unreliable. Of the 244 executive officers for whom it has been possible to find their Sub-Lieutenant examination results, twenty-three failed an exam (9 per cent), and Kenworthy was one of these. From his service record it is possible to see that: in 1907 he was refused permission to qualify for a navigation course; in 1911 he failed the signals course for command of a Torpedo boat; in 1912 HMS Bullfinch, of which he was in command, struck HMS Leopard, and Kenworthy was 'cautioned to be more careful'; in 1914 he was sacked from HMS Bullfinch 'on account of unsatisfactory conduct'. The Admiral Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands concluded that Kenworthy was 'not a fit person to be in command of a destroyer'. (ADM 196/50, p. 286.) It should be added in mitigation that collision between ships was not that uncommon. In any case, it is not any of these events that is telling, but the combination. Kenworthy's memoirs make no reference to his departure from HMS Bullfinch. (Kenworthy, Sailors) He merely wrote that when he left the ship the crew cheered. His entry in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has also failed to address these inconsistencies... “ He was a popular MP, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 19 April , 2021 Share Posted 19 April , 2021 We’ve not had a WAIWA for some time. So, who is being described here ? ? ? ”A man whose soul is pure and strong, whose sword is bright and keen, Who knows the splendour of the fight and what its issues mean, Who never makes one step aside, nor halts though hope be dim, But cleaves a pathway through the strife, and bids men follow him.” He is not Sir Cameron Shute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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