depaor01 Posted 29 September , 2014 Share Posted 29 September , 2014 Irish Life ceased publication decades ago. I could get a definitive answer if you wish. I have never seen a paper copy as it was sent to me in the form of page photos in jpg. Museumtom has used the paper version so he may know more. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 29 September , 2014 Share Posted 29 September , 2014 The references I used from 'Irish Life' were passed on to me from another, a member of this forum. It is up to himself if he wishes to be made known. He has helped me so many times in the past for which I am most grateful. Having said that I have no idea where this publication can be accessed. Sorry. Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Posted 30 September , 2014 Share Posted 30 September , 2014 Surprised than no one has mentioned the unfortunately named Wilfred Anker. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75229965/ANKER,%20WILFRED One would hope that they use the second of the two headstone schedules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 1 October , 2014 Share Posted 1 October , 2014 How about Sir Hedworth Meux (born Lambton, he changed his name in order to become the beneficiary of a will)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnMcD Posted 1 October , 2014 Share Posted 1 October , 2014 Unusual names aren't restricted to the old world. These are a few interesting names from my research of New Zealanders or New Zealand residents who served in the "Imperial Forces". John Stuart Spotswood Seddon, (I hope he didn't have a stammer) son of the NZ Prime Minister Richard John Seddon George Okeover Anson Sugden Elkanah Armitage Cheviot Wellington Dillon Bell, later a member of the NZ Legislative Council and a son of the first NZ born Prime Minister Newenham Robert de la Cour Cornwall (born Co Cork, Ireland) Assheton James Lever-Naylor (born Hobart, Tasmania) Marsham a'Beckett McCarthy (born Sydney, Australia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted 21 December , 2014 Share Posted 21 December , 2014 Wilfred Anker received his CWGC headstone just this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechhill Posted 21 December , 2014 Share Posted 21 December , 2014 Wilfred may be of Danish descent, as Anker is a common(ish) first - and last - name in DK. It translates to 'anchor'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headgardener Posted 21 December , 2014 Share Posted 21 December , 2014 A certain 'Jack The Ripper' served in the Nigerian Inland Waterway section of the RE. There were a couple of 'Prince Of Wales', too (apart from the real one, of course) - one served in the same unit as 'Jack The Ripper', if my memory serves me right. I imagine that they were locally employed illiterate men who were enrolled under fictitious names because it made it easier for a regimental paymaster who would otherwise be faced with a long list of native names that appeared the same, or were English transliterations from local languages. The more outrageous the name the less likely it would be that they'd pay the same man twice. I seem to remember flicking through 'Jack The Ripper's medal roll and finding various ludicrous names. The guys who compiled the pay roll must have been having a laugh when they went through it. Same must have applied to the workers in the Army Medal Office...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted 23 December , 2014 Share Posted 23 December , 2014 Private Urban Eclipse Carpenter http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2938030/CARPENTER,%20URBAN%20ECLIPSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken S. Posted 12 June , 2015 Share Posted 12 June , 2015 Oklahoma Spivey http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=244513 http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Spivey&GSfn=Oklahoma&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=130589397&df=all& Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmsk212 Posted 1 October , 2015 Share Posted 1 October , 2015 Came across 84595 3AM Frederick Leslie Cuff Link RFC later served as a Lieutenant 74 Squadron RAF, killed whilst flying on 7th June 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 8 October , 2015 Share Posted 8 October , 2015 Corporal Albion Henry Turner, R.M.A., No. 11046. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmsk212 Posted 10 October , 2015 Share Posted 10 October , 2015 10785 1AM Woolf Woolf RAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 11 October , 2015 Admin Share Posted 11 October , 2015 http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/177186/SHARP,%20SEPTIMUS%20HARRY%20ARCHIBALD%20RICHARD%20PERCY SHARP Sharp Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 11 October , 2015 Share Posted 11 October , 2015 Wunderbar. I have no doubt there are some equally fantastical German and French names. Ersatzreservist Willy Bender ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummell Posted 11 October , 2015 Share Posted 11 October , 2015 Victor George Fleetwood Shrapnel, A/Capt, 8/East Surreys. Great-great-grandson of Major-General Sir Henry. How he must have rued his great-great-grandfather's invention... - brummell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechhill Posted 11 October , 2015 Share Posted 11 October , 2015 Victor George Fleetwood Shrapnel, A/Capt, 8/East Surreys. Great-great-grandson of Major-General Sir Henry. How he must have rued his great-great-grandfather's invention... - brummell Did he survive? A new possible twist on disturbances in the space-time continuum; indirectly killing your great-great-grandchild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummell Posted 11 October , 2015 Share Posted 11 October , 2015 Beechhill, Sadly not. He was killed on 23 March 1918, aged 20, at Mennissis (machine-gun bullet, not shrapnel) and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. I've researched him quite a lot; a remarkable man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechhill Posted 11 October , 2015 Share Posted 11 October , 2015 Beechhill, Sadly not. He was killed on 23 March 1918, aged 20, at Mennissis (machine-gun bullet, not shrapnel) and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. I've researched him quite a lot; a remarkable man. Thank you for the feedback. One always hopes they made it when crossing paths with their story. Rest in peace, Mr. Shrapnel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 October , 2015 Share Posted 11 October , 2015 General Shrapnel's home in 1830 now one of my local hotels: http://www.holbrookhouse.co.uk/holbrook_house/history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFF Posted 18 October , 2015 Share Posted 18 October , 2015 Edmund Ironside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 4 November , 2015 Share Posted 4 November , 2015 Saethon Osmond Vychan Williams Major RASC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 4 November , 2015 Share Posted 4 November , 2015 Baden Powell Lucas http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=233241 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 6 November , 2015 Share Posted 6 November , 2015 Tysilion Oswell Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 6 November , 2015 Share Posted 6 November , 2015 I have a little ongoing project, to list all 2212 with the surname Williams in the ASC. There are some nuggets within. The most recent gem is this one: 2nd Lt (later Capt) Reginald Alexander Starbuck-Williams I wonder if whilst having a brew-up, it could have been the first time in human history that the immortal words were spoken by his C/O: "Let's all go to Starbuck's for coffee!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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