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John Young
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| Subject: Yet another brain-teaser!  Fri Mar 31, 2017 11:38 am | |
| This officer served as a Special Service Officer during the Zulu War. Who is he? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Special Service Officer. (John Young Collection.)More clues if required. John Y. |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:26 am | |
| No takers on the officer's identity?
JY |
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1879graves
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Location : Devon
| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:34 am | |
| I have not got a scooby doo?  |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:01 am | |
| Graves,
Here's a clue.
He would serve in both Boer Wars.
JY |
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1879graves
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:17 am | |
| Could it be Alan Richard Hill |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:22 am | |
| No, Hill wasn't a Special Service officer, he was deployed with his regiment.
JY |
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1879graves
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:27 am | |
| I thought that after I posted it lol
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rusteze
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Join date : 2010-06-02
| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:51 am | |
| I haven't got a clue either but he has quite distinctive features. Was he also a Special Service Officer in both Boer Wars or with his regiment?
Steve |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:00 am | |
| Steve,
He was a Special Service officer in 1880-1, at the start of the 1899-1902 outing he was serving in different regiment to the one he was originally commissioned into. By the conclusion of it he wasn't in a regiment at all.
JY |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:32 pm | |
| He would go from being a Holy Boy to become Lady from Hell.
JY |
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dlancast
Posts : 42
Join date : 2010-11-05
Location : Texas
| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:38 pm | |
| Lt William Francis Dundonald Cochrane 32nd regiment almost fits but not quite. He was a Special Service officer and went on to become a Major-General, but I don't think he served in the Boer Wars. |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 3:22 pm | |
| Diancast,
No it is not Cochrane.
JY |
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ymob
Posts : 2268
Join date : 2010-10-22
Location : France
| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:18 pm | |
| Bonjour,
Was he in Zoulouland at the first invasion?
Regards
Frédéric |
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rusteze
Posts : 2871
Join date : 2010-06-02
| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:32 pm | |
| So he was the old 9th (Norfolk Regiment) then the Black Watch, still can't get him though. Was he at Magersfontein?
Steve |
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1879graves
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:46 pm | |
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rusteze
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:03 pm | |
| I do believe you've got it Graves! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Steve |
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John Young
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:43 pm | |
| Graves,
Well done, the next clue was to have been that his son would outrank him!
Steve,
He hadn't changed too much in twenty-odd years had he.
JY |
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1879graves
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:17 pm | |
| - rusteze wrote:
- So he was the old 9th (Norfolk Regiment) then the Black Watch
Steve It was your clue that gave it to me Steve, thank you. Good brain-teaser Mr Young  |
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1879graves
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:29 pm | |
| [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Archibald Percival Wavell son of Archibald Graham Wavell |
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1879graves
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| | Subject: Re: Yet another brain-teaser! Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:34 pm | |
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