arantxa Posted 27 May , 2021 Share Posted 27 May , 2021 Any ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 27 May , 2021 Admin Share Posted 27 May , 2021 Can you take a better image of photo 5 please? It's so blurred it's rendered useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arantxa Posted 27 May , 2021 Author Share Posted 27 May , 2021 Hi sorry the blurred one is just my knee. Lol all I have is the knife and the initials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 27 May , 2021 Share Posted 27 May , 2021 53 minutes ago, arantxa said: all I have is the knife and the initials Without any meaningful provenance that really is a bit of a challenge for us! That said - I came across a MIC for a 2 Lt AE Davies, RE http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2097139 and I wondered about him possibly being a tunneller needing such a close range weapon [and yet he seems to have this MIC as 1 Signal Coy and could also be recorded under EA Davies!!] So ??? I feel sure other surnames would probably fit too. But who knows? ??? :-/ M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arantxa Posted 27 May , 2021 Author Share Posted 27 May , 2021 Well that’s much better than nothing that I had I’m sure he was a tunneler !!! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 27 May , 2021 Share Posted 27 May , 2021 Bit of a long shot to put it mildly. He is most likely to have been an infantry officer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 27 May , 2021 Share Posted 27 May , 2021 And another highly speculative punt - how about Lt AE Drysdale of the 47th Sikhs? http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6438144 ;-) M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 27 May , 2021 Share Posted 27 May , 2021 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Matlock1418 said: And another highly speculative punt - how about Lt AE Drysdale of the 47th Sikhs? http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6438144 ;-) M This seems utterly futile, there must have been several hundreds of Lt AEDs given the largest army that Britain has ever put into the field. Without some additional more meaningful clue there’s no measure in this whatsoever, which arantaxa must surely realise. Edited 27 May , 2021 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 27 May , 2021 Share Posted 27 May , 2021 6 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said: This seems utterly futile, there must have been several hundreds of Lt AEDs given the largest army that Britain has ever put into the field. Without some additional more meaningful clue there’s no measure in this whatsoever, which arantaxa must surely realise. I agree - as my first reply post highlighted! Glad you have also alerted the OP to this. :-) M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arantxa Posted 28 May , 2021 Author Share Posted 28 May , 2021 Even a dozen names or more to put with it is better than none .,.there is never going to be anymore information to go with it Then one has to make a calculated guess based on the info provided I am most appreciative of the names suggested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 28 May , 2021 Share Posted 28 May , 2021 You are welcome - as you recognise, the names suggested were really just in fun. Regardless of the [im]possibility of truly accurately assigning ownership of this knife - thank you for posting interesting images which have educated me and surely many others. :-) M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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