Ron Clifton Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 Proper names are not allowed in Scrabble, and in any case, it would not fit on the board. Also, you would have to build it up over a number of turns! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill 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. Ha ! That'll teach me to read the OP at least ! Sorry ! Perhaps I can redeem myself a little by pointing out that he had a spectacularly named brother who, I think, also died in the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 Only a little bit redeemed - see post 2 re his brother Leo! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 I'm in a hole, and I am going to stop digging ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 Not unusual names just the order of them 2/Lt Arthur Bertram Charles Dyer I wonder if he had a nickname such as Alphabet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWK Posted 2 March , 2016 Share Posted 2 March , 2016 Musketier Liborius Westerwinter Born 10 Oct 1893 Hövelhof, Paderborn Died 15 Sep 1914 Reims (From the Ehrentafel of IR16) http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4937554 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 4 March , 2016 Share Posted 4 March , 2016 Proper names are not allowed in Scrabble, and in any case, it would not fit on the board. Also, you would have to build it up over a number of turns! Ron That's a shame .... thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 22 September , 2016 Share Posted 22 September , 2016 Captain Lightly Harold Birt DSO Royal Berkshire Regiment KIA 5th Jan 1915 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 22 September , 2016 Share Posted 22 September , 2016 Captain Coutard-de-Butts Taylor Royal Irish Rifles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 October , 2016 Share Posted 11 October , 2016 (edited) Lt Coffin Medial Officer to the 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards in October 1918. Edited 11 October , 2016 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 11 October , 2016 Share Posted 11 October , 2016 wrong war but Lieutenant Colonel John Pine-Coffin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechhill Posted 10 November , 2016 Share Posted 10 November , 2016 This guy. I'll get me coat . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 21 November , 2016 Share Posted 21 November , 2016 I once knew a Welshman who had a great grandfather who had served in The Great War and had been born in: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 21 November , 2016 Share Posted 21 November , 2016 19 minutes ago, Ghazala said: I once knew a Welshman who had a great grandfather who had served in The Great War and had been born in: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch This is going to be a great one, I can tell already... What's the punch line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 21 November , 2016 Share Posted 21 November , 2016 4 hours ago, Ghazala said: I once knew a Welshman who had a great grandfather who had served in The Great War and had been born in: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was he a man of the cloth ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 22 January , 2017 Share Posted 22 January , 2017 (edited) Apologies if some of these have already been highlighted. In a bored moment I was trawling the medal rolls and noticed a MGC member named Vickers.... So someone had a sense of humour as there are quite a few (53 returns). Also the following surnames appear; Maxim ..... 55 returns... Although strangely none appear in the MGC Sapper...... Yes, you guessed it. Two of the three were in the Royal Engineers Gunner...... Lots in the RFA Grenade.... A lone Pte in the Mauritius Battalion Major..........a Major Major in the Indian Army Colonel.......a Lt Col Colonel Captain......PTe Mohammed Eli El Captain Sudan Defence Force And 26 returns for men with the surname Killer. And 290 returns named D'eath. Sadly no one with the surname Vicar in the RAChD. Edited 22 January , 2017 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 23 January , 2017 Share Posted 23 January , 2017 There was the Yorkshire cricketer killed during the war who was Second Lieutenant Major Booth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 23 January , 2017 Share Posted 23 January , 2017 I was surprised to see how many Doctors there were in the British Army. Not medical doctors or pretend doctors with PhDs and the like, but people christened 'Doctor'. This seems to be a predominantly North of England trait, and I often wonder why. Take this chap, a Doctor Watson (no kidding), who was a fireman: My Dear Watson A trawl of the MIC Indexes, and the Service Record indexes reveals many more. I wonder if there was a Sherlock Ho....... No. No. That just wouldn't be believable. Would it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 23 January , 2017 Share Posted 23 January , 2017 I have photos somewhere of the grave markers of a German soldier called 'Willy Bender' and a French one named 'Germain Lallemand'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3rn Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 Turks who served with the AIF at Gallipoli. 401 William Charles James TURK 13th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement 419 Sydney Arthur Calob TURK 19th Battalion, A Company 2605 Charles William TURK Railway Supply Detachment, Army Service Corps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill24chev Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 (edited) On 23/01/2017 at 16:43, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: Not medical doctors or pretend doctors with PhDs and the like, but people christened 'Doctor' To be pedantic it is the Medical Doctors who are Academically not "REAL" doctors/ Most UK Degrees to Qualify as a Doctors are actually Baschelor (First) Degrees Edited 25 January , 2017 by bill24chev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgibson150 Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 There was also a Harry Sherlock Holmes #78259 who was in the 9th Battalion Tank Corps (via Northern Cyclists). David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 45 minutes ago, bill24chev said: To be pedantic it is the Medical Doctors who are Academically not "REAL" doctors/ Most UK Degrees to Qualify as a Doctors are actually Baschelor (First) Degrees Reality is truly stranger than fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Wood Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 On 1/22/2017 at 09:08, QGE said: Major..........a Major Major in the Indian Army I always enjoy stones marking names like this - there were a number ot Sergeant Majors, including an MM recipient, Sgt George Major of the Border Regt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 (edited) Not so much unusual as magnificently exuberant is ... 'Auguste Chevalier, Brigadier de Dragons' (Merville Communal Cemetery). Edited 25 January , 2017 by SiegeGunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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