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Post by ttvon » 17 Nov 2007, 04:53

Who is the General with Churchill?
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Post by Lornito Uriarte Mahinay Jr. » 17 Nov 2007, 05:44

I think it's an admiral..


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Post by Steen Ammentorp » 17 Nov 2007, 12:44

On Nix.jpg we have a naval officer with the rank of Commander not an Admiral.

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Post by ttvon » 19 Nov 2007, 09:20

Hi,
when is the pic of the two Russian generals taken from?
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Who are the two generals?
I only know the two pics are taken in WW2.
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Post by Duchamp » 19 Nov 2007, 13:56

I can give some info of picture aa2
It was taken in August 1934 in Sussex

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Post by ttvon » 24 Nov 2007, 03:11

Who is she?
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Post by Michael Emrys » 24 Nov 2007, 04:34

Possibly Mary, wife and consort of HRM George VI?

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Post by ttvon » 27 Nov 2007, 08:44

Who is the Navy general?
Who is the woman?
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Post by Duchamp » 27 Nov 2007, 21:15

George VI and wife

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Post by Michael Emrys » 28 Nov 2007, 03:57

ttvon wrote:...Navy general?
Navies do not usually have generals. Their top brass are called admirals. (Although if you go back a few centuries, IIRC the Spanish navy and perhaps some others did call their top commanders something like that.)

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Post by Peter H » 28 Nov 2007, 04:17

ttvon wrote:Who is the General with Churchill?
Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham.

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Post by ttvon » 26 Dec 2007, 04:42

Thank you very much.

I agree with you.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill attends conference at Casablanca.
Who are they standing here?
I only know some of them.
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Post by ttvon » 01 Jan 2008, 03:42

conference at Casablanca. Prime Minister Winston Churchill.jpg

The men standing:
Left 3 is Alexander
left 5 is Louis Mountbatten
But who are the other men standing here?

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Post by Michael Emrys » 01 Jan 2008, 04:38

L6 looks like Ismay. L8 is Harold Macmillan.

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Post by Steen Ammentorp » 02 Jan 2008, 16:14

Michael is correct. L6 is Ismay

Beside him we have left to right:

Commander Charles Rafle Thompson, interesting person see: http://members.cox.net/ghgraham/charles ... n1895.html
Brigadier Vivian Dykes, Chief of the Combined Secretary of the Joint British Staff Mission in Washing ton
Lord Leathers, see previous page
Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander
John Martin, Principal Private Secretary to Churchill
Vice-Admiral Louis Mountbatten
Lieutenant-General Hasting Lionel Ismay
Harold MacMillan
Leslie Rowan, Private Secretary to Churchill
Brigadier Ian Jacob, Assistant Military Secretary to the War Cabinet
Unknown naval officer

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