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CWGC has this: ABEL, DAVID STUART Rank: Private Service No: 3808 Date of Death: 12/10/1916 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: South African Infantry 2nd Regt. Panel Reference Pier and Face 4 C. Memorial THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of William Abel, of South Ley Lodge, Kintore, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

The South African Infantry Brigade Rollcall for Delville Wood shows that he was MIA in front the Butte of Warlencourt (Somme) www.delvillewood.com/rolcallA.htm www.delvillewood.com/cemeteries/thiepval%20memorial%202nd...

This Diary of a South Africam Private, 2nd Battalin South African Infantry [sic] is useful www.cairogang.com/escaped/king/1916-1917/1916-1917.html

South Leylodge Farmhouse is now an art gallery (or airt gallery) www.theairtgallery.co.uk/

Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/

Appears to be this lady: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishbel_Hamilton-Gordon,_Marchioness...

Ishbel Marjoribanks, Marchioness of Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General of Canada - Victorian society - gentry - Made her coming out at a party presided by Queen Victoria - resided West End London - First President NCWC, 1890s (National Council of Women in Canada) - reputedly sold her own jewels to raise charity funds - founded May Court Convalescent Home in Ottawa, Canada - Author of a travel book "Through Canada with a Kodak" possibly containing photographs of Canada made with early Kodak camera. A brother, Edward Majoribanks, Second Baron of Tweedmouth, was married to Lady Fanny Spencer-Churchill, Winston Churchill's aunt and a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough See: www.geocities.com/daniellla.geo/ishbel.html See also: www.scotclans.com/scottish_clans/clans/marjoribanks/peopl...

My father's uncle, Adolphe Chapleau, was the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec in the late 1800s. My family has many pieces of silver tableware from the Chapleaus, and assorted pieces given to them ... one of the pieces is a gift from the countess and her husband. It's a pen and ink well set on a tray and is really beautifully made.

Wow...wonderful. I'm sure this image makes the set even more personal for you, and your family.

She sailed to America from Queenstown [now Cobh] Ireland in December 1912, on the Celtic, which also carried Miss Violet Asquith, the daughter of British Prime Minister Herbert H. Asquith, for a visit to Washington, D. C. as a guest of the British Ambassador, Lord Bryce, and Mrs. Bryce. In 1912, the Countess of Aberdeen's husband was serving as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The photo of her probably was taken after her arrival in the U. S. Story in The New York Times, December 20, 1912: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C04E1DA1E3AE6...

John Brown was the servant who became close to Queen Victoria after the death of Prince Albert. Their relationship was the subject of the 1997 movie "Mrs. Brown," starring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly. "Much gossip attached to the unlikely relationship and much animosity generated by those who resented the trust placed in the 'low-born' Brown by the Queen. The Queen refused to desert Brown because of the scandalous talk - which she dismissed as 'ill-natured gossip' " From the Royal Deeside website: John Brown, Faithful Servant to Queen Victoria --

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commonsgroup, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool! -- Seen in a discussion of Flickr Commons. (?)

Wow, i'd never seen a photo of John Brown before, only heard the story.

He looks as though his glare could melt the film, as if the photographer is intruding. Which I guess would fit the story as we know it.

To see these two! It is totally a smashing photograph!