Guest Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 Hello - contributions please. Starter for ten..... 1. Leone Sextus Denis Oswald Fradatifilus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orella Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache Served in the 1st Bn Leicestershire Regt (enlisted 1906) Departed for France with the BEF and later served as a Brigade Major with the ANZACs at Gallipoli. Later served again in France and tragically died of influenza in 1917. I simply would have loved to be a fly on the wall when he introduced himself to the Australians. Any additional material would be gratefully received. MG Request: In bold and numbered for future reference please. Edit. OP title changed. 29/9/14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 For what it's worth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Sextus_Tollemache He apparently also had a serving brother, Leo. And, allegedly an older brother "Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache" Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 2 Major General Hurdis Secundus Lalande Ravenshaw CMG Wiki Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 3. Lt W G Officer 1st Bn Duke of Wellington's Regiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 4. Major-General Edward Charles Ingouville-Williams, C.B., DSO aka Inky Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 1. Leone Sextus Denis Oswald Fradatifilus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orella Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache Was his full name on his gravestone and if so I wonder if his family had to pay for the extra letters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 Are they the beer Tollythingys family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 1. Leone Sextus Denis Oswald Fradatifilus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orella Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache Was his full name on his gravestone and if so I wonder if his family had to pay for the extra letters? The record is over 400 characters on a headstone. This is only 105 for the name so at last a 300 word eulogy to beat the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 The record is over 400 characters on a headstone. Any idea what it is, Martin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalyback Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 As far as I can see he is not recorded with the full name. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/427534/TOLLEMACHE,%20LEONE%20SEXTUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinBattle Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 Never mind on the headstone, that would fill a screen wall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 Any idea what it is, Martin? There are three published books on the CWGC and it is mentioned in one....I will dig it up. From memory I don't think it actually mentions the person. CWGC will of course know. MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 Are they the beer Tollythingys family. I think the beer family is Tolley Cobbold. If it is the family being discussed. by the time you had managed to order a pint of it the last bell would have been rung! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 We have a pub here in Northamptonshire 'The Tollemache Arms'. Is in Harrington village, which is also the location of 'The Carpetbaggers Museum', this on the site of an airfield which supported covert operations in Europe in WW2 by delivering arms and other supplies. Also dropping agents into occupied territories. Both the pub and Museum are well worth a visit. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken S. Posted 2 September , 2014 Share Posted 2 September , 2014 Did any of the Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffs serve in the Great War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loader Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 The Aussies probably said "We'll just call you "CHIPS" mate!". Hello - contributions please. Starter for ten..... 1. Leone Sextus Denis Oswald Fradatifilus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orella Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache Served in the 1st Bn Leicestershire Regt (enlisted 1906) Departed for France with the BEF and later served as a Brigade Major with the ANZACs at Gallipoli. Later served again in France and tragically died of influenza in 1917. I simply would have loved to be a fly on the wall when he introduced himself to the Australians. Any additional material would be gratefully received. MG Request: In bold and numbered for future reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteStarLine Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 5. Count von Gleichen (Major-General Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen), son of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Count Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen, who once had an argument with the Kaiser, is less of an outrageous name in its own right until we remember that he was the commander of the British 15th Brigade, including at Mons, Le Cateau and First Ypres. Present at the Christmas Truce where he supported the actions of the battalions, he was promoted to Major General early in 1915. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 I think the beer family is Tolley Cobbold. If it is the family being discussed. by the time you had managed to order a pint of it the last bell would have been rung! The beer was, I believe, Tollemache and Cobbold, shortened to Tolly by the drinkers of east Anglia. The 4X was pretty good stuff. I met the future Mrs Broomfield in a Tolly pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 I stand corrected and congratulations on your forthcoming marriage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Davies Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 6. Admiral The Hon Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax Born a Plunkett but added the other 3 as a result of maternal inheritances. He served on HMS Lion. Wiki has some more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Drax His grandson (an ex Grenadier I believe) is MP for South Dorset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 6. Admiral The Hon Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax Born a Plunkett but added the other 3 as a result of maternal inheritances. He served on HMS Lion. Wiki has some more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Drax His grandson (an ex Grenadier I believe) is MP for South Dorset. Wunderbar. I have no doubt there are some equally fantastical German and French names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken S. Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 Major Jason Plato 3032149 b. Amagri, Ontario http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=579976 Plato is a United Empire Loyalist family, I believe. There are several dozen others with Major as a given name. As a surname there are somewhat more, including one Lionel Hugh Major who joined as a Lt. and reached the rank of Lt.-Col... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 Another Canadian 8. Colonel Count Henry Visart de Bury et de Bocame CBE. A Canadian Gunner who had retired and re-enlisted for the Great War as Commanding the Canadian Field Artillery Brigade in the Expeditionary Force. Survived. Served again in the re-run of the Great War 1939-45. Preofessor of Mathematics at RMC Canada no less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechhill Posted 3 September , 2014 Share Posted 3 September , 2014 Wasn't there a similar thread in times past? I remember a few hearty laughs and an ever changing title - which, of course, is the reason I can't find it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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