James A Pratt III Posted 7 November , 2015 Share Posted 7 November , 2015 As a result of the downing of the Zeppelin L33 A Mr Clark named his newly born daughter Zeppelina. She didn't really like the name and preferred to be called Lena. She died in 2004. There are also a number of officers in the Russian army and Navy pre 1917 that had German names. Some with Von in them. There are also some that had French or English names. The Bolsheviks got rid of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnumbellum Posted 7 November , 2015 Share Posted 7 November , 2015 Conscientious objectors unsurprisingly often came from radical families, and a number were named William Ewart, but the one that took the biscuit was named William Ewart Gladstone Smith, or whatever his surname was. I am not aware of any other prime minister honoured to that extent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 8 November , 2015 Share Posted 8 November , 2015 I am not aware of any other prime minister honoured to that extent. If only that were true! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10576544 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnumbellum Posted 8 November , 2015 Share Posted 8 November , 2015 If only that were true! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10576544 An interesting comparison, but not really in the William Ewart Gladstone league. The equivalent would have required the poor Kosovan boy to have been given the full four names Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. He may well never know what he escaped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 8 November , 2015 Share Posted 8 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!" Apparently the two men who founded the coffee shop chain were both fans of Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick", and named it after Mr Starbuck, the first mate of the Pequod.Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 9 November , 2015 Share Posted 9 November , 2015 Slightly off topic, but there are two chaps with interesting names that are connected to real people or events in my local cemetery. One has the Christian names "Baden Powell", and the other one is named "Verdun". The odd thing is that whilst the first one was born in or around the end of the Anglo-Boer War, the other one wasn't born until the 1930s. I can only surmise that he was named after another family member (presumably buried elsewhere, as he's not on the same head stone) who also had "Verdun" in his name and had been born in or around 1916. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 9 November , 2015 Share Posted 9 November , 2015 Yes I've come across at least 2 Verduns. Given that the number of British soldiers involved there was pretty close to zero, I always assumed it was due to something related to the name being reported frequently in the press at the time. It couldn't be due to a direct familial connection, unlike Ypres (also met 2 of that name). Maybe something deep in the psyche of us Brits admiring gallant French peasants defending their homeland against the bullying Hun agressor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scritch Posted 9 November , 2015 Share Posted 9 November , 2015 In the local churchyard in Charlesworth, north west Derbyshire, is the grave of the intriguingly named Joe Locre Ypres Belfield, born 3rd August 1915. Is it possible I wonder that perhaps his dad was serving in that part of Belgium at the time of his birth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medaler Posted 9 November , 2015 Share Posted 9 November , 2015 I see there are loads of MIC's for the surname "German", "Fritz" and "Kaiser" together with 2 for "Kraut" and even a "Hun" - It makes you wonder why the Windsor's bothered having all their stationery changed. I suspect that many of the Kaiser's were known as "Bill" for the rest of their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 10 November , 2015 Share Posted 10 November , 2015 Yes I've come across at least 2 Verduns. Given that the number of British soldiers involved there was pretty close to zero, I always assumed it was due to something related to the name being reported frequently in the press at the time. It couldn't be due to a direct familial connection, unlike Ypres (also met 2 of that name). Maybe something deep in the psyche of us Brits admiring gallant French peasants defending their homeland against the bullying Hun agressor. Yes, I think I'd agree with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianmorris547 Posted 11 November , 2015 Share Posted 11 November , 2015 I noticed in the RE SWB Rolls 70975 Cpl Francis Lancelot Smallpeice. Not only would he have taken some stick from his comrades but I suspect that the nurses who treated him may have had a nudge and a wink. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 27 December , 2015 Share Posted 27 December , 2015 I hold the medals of Henry Godfrey Wedderburn-Maxwell, MBE. Henry Godfreys father was Major James Andrew Colville Wedderburn, who was born 1849 at Madras. On the death of his father in 1896, James succeeded to Glenair, Kirkcudbrightshire, when he assumed the additional name of Maxwell. James married Helen Mary Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne (elder daughter of the Rev. Henry Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne) on 29 October 1891. They had three sons and two daughters (Who Was Who, 1916-1928). Henry Godfrey, the second son, was noted by Burkes Landed Gentry: MBE (1930), Sudan Political Service, Khartoum, Capt., Reserve of Officers, late RA, served in the Great War 1916-19; Order of the Nile, 4th class, born 31 July 1897. Educated Charterhouse and RMA Woolwich. GWF members may be interested in reading my research efforts: about Wedderburn-Maxwell as 21-year old A/Major, RFA (Despatches gazetted 1918 as 2Lt), to District Commissioner, Blue Nile Province... Kindest regards, Kim.Henry Godfrey Wedderburn-Maxwell .doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perth Digger Posted 29 December , 2015 Share Posted 29 December , 2015 Reginald Beethoven Dunt and Tilden Christmas Thomson, both 6/RWK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 29 December , 2015 Share Posted 29 December , 2015 A little boy' born in early 1915, was baptised Mons Jones, here in Ruthin. His father Pte Harry Jones of 1st RWF was a Mons survivor, though he was killed in action later in 1915. Harry's letters home are in the Denbighshire archives. Mons Jones lived in Ruthin throughout his life until his death in the late 1980s and though I can't recall him, he is still remembered with fondness by many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 13 January , 2016 Share Posted 13 January , 2016 Lt Ambrose Mary Anthony Iturdide de Lone Teeling, 3rd Bn Norfolk Regt His father was Private Chamberlain to the Pope and a Pontifical Zouave click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 13 January , 2016 Share Posted 13 January , 2016 Reginald Beethoven Dunt and Tilden Christmas Thomson, both 6/RWK. My grandfather was also in 6/RWK. His name was Percy William Eggs. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelcave Posted 13 January , 2016 Share Posted 13 January , 2016 Did he travel with a baton in his knapsack? I thought that was corporals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midshipmanrayley Posted 1 February , 2016 Share Posted 1 February , 2016 Doctor Percival Bugg, in my family tree, Doctor being his Christian name. He was a hotel porter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianmorris547 Posted 5 February , 2016 Share Posted 5 February , 2016 In the RE Railways BW and V Medal Rolls I noticed a Percy C Haggis, and so I wondered - and sure enough there is a Joseph George Neeps of the Rifle Brigade and a Harry Tatty of the Connaught Rangers. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 6 February , 2016 Share Posted 6 February , 2016 In the RE Railways BW and V Medal Rolls I noticed a Percy C Haggis, and so I wondered - and sure enough there is a Joseph George Neeps of the Rifle Brigade and a Harry Tatty of the Connaught Rangers. Brian None of the servicemen you name are on CWGC, so they all survived. There are 18 people with the surname "Haggis", seven of which are described as Civilian War Dead. None of the remaining 11 come from a Scottish based regiment, although one is from The London Regiment (London Scottish). There are no records on CWGC for Neeps or Tatty's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRC Kevin Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 I do feel that the parents of Pte Florence O'Leary of 2/5th King's Own had a case to answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 Forgive me if this is a repeat - I can't quite face reading through the entire thread - have we had Major Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ? Leicestershire Regiment, died in 1917 whilst on the staff of 1st Australian Div. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 It was the name in the OP. ...but still worth a repeat. ...his father was keen on acrostics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 It was the name in the OP. ...but still worth a repeat. ...his father was keen on acrostics. Is that still legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 Major Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ? Are you allowed to use names when playing scrabble? If you are, how much would you get for the complete handle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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