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Unusually Named People of the Great War


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Tollemache's name was a result of a dispute over money (hence initials LSD) The family just kept adding surnames. As for Wolfeslegelsteinhausbergdorff that again is invented. Lishington-Armstrong-Marshall is buried next to my Great Great Uncle. My Grandfather served with a Pte Shatwell.

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Brigadier General Henry Brewster Percy Lion Kennedy.

Bit of a mouthful.

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RICHARD THOMAS CYRIL WILLIS-FLEMING, Second Lieutenant Royal Horse Artillery 1st/5th (Lowland) Bde.Age:20 Died of Wounds 4th August 1916 Egypt
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For confusion potential then Second Lieutenant Major William Booth has to be in there (a Yorkshire ad England/MCC cricketer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Booth

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Try Harder.

It's not a request it's, a name I came across on CWGC when my fingers were on the wrong keys and I hit return. I probably wouldn't be able to find him again if I was purposefully seeking him. Just struck me as a good name the guy was African.

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Not forgetting a certain French officer called Charles Andrew Joseph Mary de Gaulle.

Ron

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I haven't seen a bottle of Tolly for years. I seem to recall it was brewed in Norfolk, but I may be wrong. Is it still available or has I gone the way of many other local brews?

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Wouldn't it be great (little bit of devilment here, so apologies) to see an unusual & multi-barreled name who was only a private. Then try & imagine the grief he probably got from some gruff, don't stand on ceremony, Sgt. Major

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Following in Mike's (skipman) playground footsteps (post #25) Click (and in case anyone's wondering it isn't an Ancestry transcription error); there are also a handful of 'straight' S*x entries within the MIC records.

NigelS

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Tolly Cobbold was taken over by Ridley's, then by the Greene King conglomerate. The brand now doesn't exist as such, although I believe Greene King do produce Tolly-labelled brews occasionally. I preferred Tolly to Greene King when I was at Cambridge in the 1980s but even then it was getting a bit difficult to track down in Cambridge's multitude of pubs and college bars. My real favourite, Ruddles County, is still made by Greene King, but no longer brewed in Rutland. I recently discovered that it was the favourite brew of author Laurie Lee who used to have it specially imported to Gloucestershire. Sorry, going off topic.

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Major James Hardress de Warrenne Waller DSO OBE RE. - who was an Irishman. He served with 66 Field Company in Gallipoli and Salonica as well as WW2. An architect by profession, he was a specialist in concrete structures and came up with idea of a concrete battleship. The Royal Navy were interested and a 170 ft long , 1000 ton barge was constructed to see if the idea was viable. Unfortunately the end of the war killed the project off and the test vessel ended up on a French waterway.

TR

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Hardress de Warrenne Waller. Doesn't sound redolent of Ireland.

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Presumably a Norman descendant who followed the Conqueror, or of Huguenot descent going to sort out a few Catholics for King Billy.

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Ok...

Big-Gen Hon. John Frederick Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis DSO 1st Bn Irish Guards. Commanded the battalion coming out of First Ypres when the unit ws reduced to less than two companies. See here Allegedly the youngest Brigadier in the ARmy in his day. Someone asked about soldiers with multiple barreled names. This gentleman ranker started as a Trooper in the Imperial Yeomanry.

Sadly he died of wounds. Had he lived and married a cousin he may well have beaten our man in the Leicestershire Regt.

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They is a 2587 Sepoy Ali Shah Mad, Baluchistan Infantry. I believe some of his descendants are still kicking around.

...and a 2200 Pte Grenade, Mauritius Labour Battalion No forename though.

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Major-General E Montagu-Stuart-Wortley is not exactly regarded as one of the more successful divisional commanders. A posh label is no guarantee as to the quality of the contents.

Ron

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For confusion potential then Second Lieutenant Major William Booth has to be in there (a Yorkshire ad England/MCC cricketer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Booth

There is a 10244 Sgt Captain A Bowen King's Liverpool Regt. Ended up as a WOII. ..and a MS 618 Sgt Captain Blake ASC there are 26 men with a forename 'Captain' but the most alarming is 36662 Cpl Captain Whipp MGC

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Some names that caught my eye on a recent trip to Flanders:

Not "outrageous", but just beautiful:

Captain Gilbert Jocelyn Basil Fazakerley-Westby

1st DCLI cemetery, the Bluff

and right slap-bang in the middle of Tyne Cot (a cemetary visited by many a teenage schoolgirl on schooltrips) a German soldier:

Landsturmmann Otto Bieber

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Always liked -

GRAHAM de MONTMORENCEY ARMSTRONG-LUSHINGTON-TULLOCH, 1st Bn. Connaught Rangers. KIA 05/11/1914.

See Michelle's post #45

John

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Lieutenant Elphinstone D'Oyly Aplin, 1st Bn Gloucestershire Regiment. Died of wounds May,1915.

Major Reinhold Meitzen Adams, 51st Sikhs, I.A. Died of wounds April,1917. I believe that his mother was of German origin.

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