Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 6 hours ago, dgibson150 said: There was also a Harry Sherlock Holmes #78259 who was in the 9th Battalion Tank Corps (via Northern Cyclists). David Well well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechhill Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 15 hours ago, b3rn said: 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 No Johnny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 25 January , 2017 Share Posted 25 January , 2017 16 hours ago, b3rn said: 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 What about the hundreds of men from Llanelli, Wales? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanelli#History Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 26 January , 2017 Share Posted 26 January , 2017 Did any of them have particularly unusual names (as opposed to the nickname Turks)? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 26 January , 2017 Share Posted 26 January , 2017 32 minutes ago, Ron Clifton said: Did any of them have particularly unusual names (as opposed to the nickname Turks)? Ron No Ron not that I'm aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 23 February , 2017 Share Posted 23 February , 2017 She must have been a sweet lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 (edited) Major Kraut (Served with the German Army in East Africa). Really. Edited 11 September , 2017 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 Philibert Marie Victor Colombe, Bank of England Clerk and one Wilfred R. Bion's Tank Crew at Ypres and Cambrai. no.8 section 14th Coy. "E" Bn. MGC (Motor) before Tanks. Service papers have survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 No. 11921 Pte Mustapha Reset Macedonian Mule Corps No. 999 Pte Mustapha Shaik Carnatic infantry No. 86722 Pte A Nurse RAMC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 Acting Captain Geoffrey De Gruchy Barkas 2/1st (Cirty of London) Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 Capt Hirzel Denis de Mussenden Carey 56th Div RFA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 Appropriate name for member of the Army Remount Service: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 September , 2017 Share Posted 11 September , 2017 Major H H Charles Mahe de Chenal de la Bourdonnnais, Prince de Mahe RGA The family hailed from the French colony of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 15 September , 2017 Share Posted 15 September , 2017 Private Sunday Tea Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianmorris547 Posted 15 September , 2017 Share Posted 15 September , 2017 (edited) There are some more names for the West African Contingent in WO 329/2330 (RE IWT BW&V medals). The names include Blackman Trouble, Cold Lake Morning, One Day Gentleman and Half Past Five. Edited 15 September , 2017 by brianmorris547 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmsk212 Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 Hi Just come across an airman 231981 Time of Day Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 He's a favourite of a colleague of mine you came across him during The National Archives' Traces Through Time project (which was finding automated ways to link people across records). He's quite easy to find across quite a range of records (though people haven't alwayss transcribed him very accurately). You can see how this gets picked up in Discovery here http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12463293 (and note how the fact it's definitely the crrect name is confirmed!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGB Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 I refuse to believe that there was a Relax Singh in a Punjab regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmsk212 Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 49 minutes ago, David_Underdown said: He's a favourite of a colleague of mine you came across him during The National Archives' Traces Through Time project (which was finding automated ways to link people across records). He's quite easy to find across quite a range of records (though people haven't alwayss transcribed him very accurately). You can see how this gets picked up in Discovery here http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12463293 (and note how the fact it's definitely the crrect name is confirmed!) On his Air79 Service Record, next to his name, someone has written in half past 2 Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 (edited) Even Admiralty clerks get bored (or Air Ministry even) Edited 21 November , 2017 by David_Underdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 Of course if it had been 5.15PM he would not have been there to write it. [Cheap and unworthy crack, doubly so as I was a civil servant of sorts too] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 On 03/09/2014 at 09:38, Gareth Davies said: 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. Headed the British mission to Moscow in 1939, when the Nazis concluded the Non-Aggression Pact under everyone's noses. Given the hostility of Communism to "bourgeois", it seems an odd chocie to send someone with a quadruple-barreled surname. (Though I believe he was a man of ability) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 The name lives on but the MP for South Dorset prefers to be known as Richard Drax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 This is an interesting name which arises from a Great War death. Sergeant Observer European Harry Ward RAF was named European in memory of his father who was killed a few months after he was born in January 1915. On 10 May 1940,the day when the Blizkreig cut into the BEF and the RAF component suffered heavy losses, the ASSF No 150 Squadron lost a Battle, one of many on that fateful day.Observer Ward survived from an op to Luxembourg out of their airfield at Ecury sur Coole,the aircraft crashing in the target area and the crew of three were captured. Unfortunately Observer Ward lost a foot when the aircraft crashed and later was repatriated on an exchange scheme in 1943 as not medically fit for further combat.....he went on to own a well known corner shop and off licence, "Wards" on Burton Road, Lincoln and died in September 1996. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkley remembers Posted 21 November , 2017 Share Posted 21 November , 2017 A/Sgt Reginald Hearsay, 1st Dragoon Guards, at least so I am told Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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