seaJane Posted 21 July , 2021 Share Posted 21 July , 2021 How about this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 21 July , 2021 Share Posted 21 July , 2021 It’s now late so will have another stab in the morning, but looking at his portrait I would suggest early 20’s, which suggest the medal and clasps are for the 2nd Boer war, unless he was an old officer at the time of the GW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 Killed in action 1915. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 I bet he's someone's son.😜 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 Rifle Brigade or London Regiment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 28 minutes ago, neverforget said: I bet he's someone's son.😜 Shouldn’t that be a “ name that lyric” on the music thread……..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 Just now, Knotty said: Shouldn’t that be a “ name that lyric” on the music thread……..? Is there a music thread? I hadn't noticed 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 2 hours ago, neverforget said: I bet he's someone's son.😜 Son of the late John Swinton Isaac, D.L., of Boughton Park, Worcester? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 13 minutes ago, Gunner Hall said: Son of the late John Swinton Isaac, D.L., of Boughton Park, Worcester? Who knows? Not I I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 (edited) Captain John Edmund Valentine Issac, 2nd Bt. killed 9/5/ 1915, buried in the New Irish Farm Cemetery He was a Boer War veteran and had a DSO and a mention as well. . Originally "Known unto God", he was identified by virtue of his DSO ribbon and a Rifle Brigade Button. Edited 22 July , 2021 by Gunner Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 6 hours ago, neverforget said: I bet he's someone's son.😜 Correct. Literary connection at one remove. 4 hours ago, Gunner Hall said: Son of the late John Swinton Isaac, D.L., of Boughton Park, Worcester? No, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 10 minutes ago, seaJane said: Correct. Literary connection at one remove. Well, that narrows it down slightly more than my suggestion at least 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 Drat. Thats me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 I wonder, does he have a better known brother by any chance, and was one of Gunner's suggested regiments correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 1 hour ago, neverforget said: I wonder, does he have a better known brother by any chance, and was one of Gunner's suggested regiments correct? Couldn't say as to regiments but he had two brothers, of whom one was also a casualty. The musical suggestion is not 100% off the beam as a certain singer had his mother as a neighbour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 14 hours ago, FROGSMILE said: Rifle Brigade or London Regiment I’ve blown up the photo and I’m pretty sure that’s the Rifle Brigade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 22 July , 2021 Share Posted 22 July , 2021 12 minutes ago, Knotty said: I’ve blown up the photo and I’m pretty sure that’s the Rifle Brigade Yes that was my favoured guess. I thought it might help me guess the personality, but it hasn’t! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 (edited) It's awfully easy to go off down the wrong rabbit-hole. Although, you are correct about the Rifle Brigade. Edited 23 July , 2021 by seaJane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 (edited) One last go. Capt. William Frederick Temple Sheridan, RA of the 5th Bt attached 2nd,Rifle Brigade Great grandson of Richard Brindsley Sheridan? Kiled Loos, 25/09/1915 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/868271/WILLIAM FREDERICK TEMPLE SHERIDAN/ Though that rabbit hole reference is worrying. Edited 23 July , 2021 by Gunner Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 The person I've been thinking of doesn't appear to have had any children, though by some accounts he did have a certain fascination with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 17 minutes ago, neverforget said: The person I've been thinking of doesn't appear to have had any children, though by some accounts he did have a certain fascination with them. That and the rabbit hole makes me sure I'm on the wrong track. I've got a spreadsheet of '15 Rifle casualties and nothing leaps out. Curiouser and curiouser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 7 minutes ago, Gunner Hall said: That and the rabbit hole makes me sure I'm on the wrong track. I've got a spreadsheet of '15 Rifle casualties and nothing leaps out. Curiouser and curiouser Any Warrens on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 Ok I think have identified him as Captain Alan Knyveton Hargreaves seaJanes left a couple of cryptic clue..”It's awfully easy to go off down the wrong rabbit-hole”, and previously “Literary connection at one remove”, and I’m sure that Gunner H was referring to the same reference with his “curiouser and curiouser” taken from the book referred to. That set me off looking at the various literature & rabbit themes and the wrong “rabbit hole” refers to the old chesnut Alice in Wonderland, who was written for and based on a young Alice Liddell. She later in her life, was to marry Reginald Hargreaves and have 3 sons, Alan, Leopold and Carly, who all went to war.Alan and Leopold were both killed in action during the war. Alan was a Captain in 2nd Battalion the Rifle Brigade kia 9/5/1915, and his brother Leopold was a Captain in the 1st Battalion Irish Guards and was also kia 25/9/1916. Carly was also a Captain in the Scots Guards, and survived the war, later joining the RAF. As the photograph is that of an officer of the Rifle Brigade it could only be Alan Hargreaves. We need Pal Stiletto to come on here as the Rifle Brigade is his speciality I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 23 July , 2021 Share Posted 23 July , 2021 (edited) Crikey, Knotty, I can see the enormous" Cheshire Cat " grin from here! Edited 23 July , 2021 by Gunner Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 24 July , 2021 Share Posted 24 July , 2021 On 23/07/2021 at 11:41, Gunner Hall said: Capt. William Frederick Temple Sheridan, No, sorry (also sorry for being so late with this - have been having a bloody stressful time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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