seaJane Posted 24 April , 2021 Share Posted 24 April , 2021 I take the liberty, and possibly the risk, of posting this directly after the preceding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 I’m tempted to say, Vesta Tilley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 2 minutes ago, Uncle George said: I’m tempted to say, Vesta Tilley. I did wonder about the gender, but I would say it's a lad. Apart from that though I haven't a clue who (or what) it might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 Another poet, in Hugh McDiarmid / Christopher Murray Grieve's circle. Deserves to be better known! He was 18 when he joined the RN in 1916. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 Very generous clue - he is William Soutar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 Yes, I thought I might have overdone it! Picture from this website: https://williamsoutar.com/ where you can read about his life and see some of his poems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 Here is one for you to try He was the first to do what he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 William Leefe Robinson VC, first man to shoot down a Zeppellin perchance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 must have been too easy Leefe Robinson: The man who shot down a Baby Killer - BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 20 minutes ago, jonbem said: must have been too easy I was surprised that it was him, it was one of those hunches which suggests I'd seen his face somewhere a long time ago as it's decades since I read anything on the shooting down. Clearly those brain cells are still functioning and connected. Which is quite cheery news in its way. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 He couldn't get away with that 'tache, for much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 On 26/04/2021 at 06:53, Gunner Hall said: He couldn't get away with that 'tache, for much longer. Which was my first thought too. Although at the time the photo was taken the man who would make the tootbrush mustache infamous was much more conventionally hirsute in the upper lip region...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 25 April , 2021 Share Posted 25 April , 2021 I've had a quick search but I don't think we've had this man before. Could be wrong of course...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 (edited) On 23/04/2021 at 19:34, Gunner Hall said: Ironic, since apparently, West Flemish is the nearest you will get to Old English. Did not know that... and does not make me understand it better either... M. Edited 26 April , 2021 by Marilyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 54 minutes ago, Marilyne said: Did not know that... and does not make me understand it better either... M. I was wrong! It's West FRISIAN. Not Flemish. Either way, its all Greek to me. Habbaþ gōdne dæg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 20 hours ago, Fattyowls said: I don't think we've had this man before Is he Canadian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 20 hours ago, Fattyowls said: I've had a quick search but I don't think we've had this man before. Could be wrong of course...... Time for one or two of your fiendishly clever clues Pete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, seaJane said: Is he Canadian? He sure is. I thought about obscuring the badge but that would be the act of a ċeorl (in its post Old English pejorative sense). 2 hours ago, neverforget said: Time for one or two of your fiendishly clever clues Pete? He came second. I would have placed him first. Edited 26 April , 2021 by Fattyowls Fiddling with formatting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 hmmm Medical Corps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 9 minutes ago, seaJane said: hmmm Medical Corps? A Lieutenant in an infantry battalion, It's not his war service that sets him apart however........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 26 April , 2021 Share Posted 26 April , 2021 A few biographical details that I have unearthed, having known very little about him. He was born in Preston but went west as a young man and changed his name slightly for reasons that are not entirely clear. He served with a battalion that had a particularly high casualty rate but survived having suffered only a facial wound. None of which really helps but I thought you'd all like to know....... Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 27 April , 2021 Share Posted 27 April , 2021 Hmmn, I don't know if this is him, or his brother. Tricky.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 27 April , 2021 Share Posted 27 April , 2021 A lot of us have visited what makes him notable.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 27 April , 2021 Share Posted 27 April , 2021 It's not him then, or his brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 27 April , 2021 Share Posted 27 April , 2021 48 minutes ago, Gunner Hall said: It's not him then, or his brother Possibly my two all time favourite wrong answers of all time Gunner, positively gnomic (assuming they are wrong of course). The picture was colourised to appear on the cover of a book about him which I will reveal as my source when he has been identified. What makes him notable stands on a famous corner....... Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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