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Ah Colonel, but that's a fine Ronnie!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At left, something noble Irlandaise

    given that Irlandaise is feminine, I think it might be À une noble Irlandaise, To a noble Irishwoman.
  • John Spooner said:
    Flying visit reported in Edinburgh Evening News - Wednesday 23 July 1902
    COLONEL SHIEL AT QUEENSTOWN.
    The Boer Colonel. A. Shiel, who landed at Queenstown to-day, left immediately en route for Germany.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The first shipment of 514 PoWs arrived on the 10th April 1900, including General Cronjé and his wife, Colonel Schiel and 21 other officers.

    sainthelenaisland.info/boerprisoners.htm
  • John Spooner said:
    Cork Weekly Herald - Saturday 18 November 1899
    THE BOER PRISONERS.
    INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL SHIEL.
    Cane Towun Thursday Cape llown, Thursday.
    Colonel Schiel, the German soldier who is generally supposed to have originated the Boer plan of campaign, has been interviewed on board the guardship Penelope, where he is at present detained a prisoner, He professed the highest admiration for the bravery displayed by the Gordon Highlanders at Flandslaagte, and remarked, “Whenever I meet one of them in future I shall take off my hat to him.”
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Adolf has a wikipedia page, a different photo of the same officer.

    died on 8 August 1903 in Bad Reichenhall of the wounds he had received at Elandslaagte.

February 27, 1904

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  • Swordscookie said:
    I never did like Sergeants, nasty beggars always shouting and roaring and giving people a hard time! I think that the collective for that horrible rank should be a "Bellow" of Sergeants? Those daft looking Pillbox hats make them look different but I suspect that he is the man on the left front on the right side of the officer with the sword.
  • heady school said:
    From this informative site , I found "a subtlety of sergeants at law", but I think that refers to some sort of a fancy lawyer, and there's nothing too subtle about these sergeants.
  • Woesinger said:
    At a guess (and after a few mins of Google-fu), these chaps are from the Royal Horse Artillery.
  • blackpoolbeach said:
    Some have the Royal Artillery badge above their stripes. All are wearing snake belt buckles with blanco on the belt. Here are some earlier uniforms of the RA. www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyuniforms/britishartill... "The Sam Browne belt was ordered to be gradually introduced from 1898 to replace the white pouchbelt and binoculars case."
  • ClickKen04 said:
    Is it me or do they all look very, very like one another around the facial area as in the image of one another? Look at their eyes!

Hugh Leslie Osborne

from State Library of New South Wales