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Mary of Teck, wife of George V, and her granddaughter, the current Queen Elizabeth II, born 21 April 1926: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II The picture is dated 6/18/[19]26 in the upper left corner, so a bit of a latecomer in the Bain collection.

This picture apparently goes with this;

She certainly looks like Elizabeth II

Great !!!!!!!!!!

Flight-Commander Joseph Ruscombe Wadham Smyth-Pigott (note spelling, caption on photo is correct) of the Royal Naval Air Service, was awarded the Disdinguished Service Order in November 1915, see www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1915/1915%20-%200970... (end of page) "November 13 (1915) – Flying a BE.2c, Royal Naval Air Service Flight Commander J. R. W. Smyth-Pigott makes a daring night bombing attack on a bridge of the Berlin-Constantinople railway over the Maritsa River at Kuleli Burgas in the Ottoman Empire from an altitude of 300 feet (91 meters). Although the bridge survives, he receives the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_in_aviation#November See also www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29381/pages/11756/page.pdf Date of birth: August 9, 1890 (discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/D81235...) He died on October 8, 1971 (www.thepeerage.com/p7609.htm#i76084)

Thank you so much, B-59, for your excellent and well documented research. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

JRW Smyth Pigott was my great grandmother's younger brother. He is mentioned many times in a book she wrote ("Four Score Years and Ten") that I will be publishing later this year on Amazon.

The Royal Academy of Dance method, also referred to as the English style of ballet, was established in 1920 by Genee, Karsavina, Bedells, E Espinosa, and Richardson. The goal of this method is to promote academic training in classical ballet throughout Great Britain. This style also spread to the United States, and is widely utilized still today. There are specific grade levels which a student must move through in order to complete training in this method. The key principle behind this method of instruction is that basic ballet technique must be taught at a slow pace, with difficulty progression often much slower than the rest of the methods. The idea behind this is if a student is to put in a large amount of effort into perfecting the basic steps, the technique learned in these steps allow a student to utilize harder ones at a much easier rate. Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Ballet