Annie Once again, many thanks. Gareth
This is one of a series of posts to mark the international Rugby players who served in, and survived, The Great War. If anyone has further...
Annie I thought for a moment that you'd found another international player that I'd missed, but F B Young played for New Zealand before that...
Annie Thanks for that. Gareth
Annie Of course, you're right. I went off on a tangent without reading your post properly - this can happen when you look at things early in the...
Annie Thanks for that. Fascinating! Gareth
There was a watchable TV drama about the men and the bear, I think called A Bear Named Winne, with Stephen Fry, made about three or four years ago....
It looks like he's in 1930s(?) Armee de l'Air uniform, with what appears to be a pilot's badge. So we can presume that he was wounded and captured...
Annie An excellent effort. Again, thank you very much. Gareth
Annie Thanks for the full name. His military service remains a mystery. Perhaps he served in the AMF, rather than the AIF, during the war and...
Annie You have been busy! Many thanks. Gareth
Annie Many thanks. Someone, somewhere, got it right, and someone else, somewhere else, got it wrong. But which is which? Gareth
Thank you very much. He's not mentioned in Franks and Bailey's The Storks but that may not mean that he didn't serve in one of the escadrilles...
Annie Thanks for the extra data. Gareth
Annie Thanks He's another one to add to the list! Gareth
Annie Thanks for filling in a couple of the gaps. Gareth
Dane = Pte Joergen Christian Jensen, 50th Bn, AIF. See: http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/jensen-vc.pdf Gareth
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