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another Bain Collection photo of the general:



Some background:
"Unlike the Germans, the French could not agree on the best plans for war. In the years before the war, prominent generals had argued over how to prepare for a war with Germany. One-time commander in chief General Victor Michel guessed that the German attack would come through Belgium and proposed that the first French action should be to cut off the Germans in Belgium before they could reach French territory. Michel's plan, which was unpopular with political leaders but turned out to be absolutely correct, cost him his job. His replacement, General Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), called instead for a direct attack on German positions in the formerly French territories of Alsace-Lorraine. (He called for a smaller force to monitor German activities in Belgium.) Joffre's plan was adopted by his country, and it left France highly vulnerable to the German Schlieffen plan. Joffre also underestimated the number of German troops the French armies would face and overestimated the impact that Russian battles would have on the conflict. Joffre's faulty vision of how the war would unfold cost the French dearly in the early stages of the conflict."

find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?contentSet=EBKS&do...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_McCoy_Nulton

link to his grave marker www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=6607883 In 1914, while commanding Montana, he led landing parties ashore during the United States occupation of Veracruz

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ferdinand,_Prince_of_Prussia

If the lad in the photo is the Prussian prince, then he was born in 1907, and would have been only seven years old in 1914 (the date of this sequence of the Bain Agency's photostream). But I can't help thinking that this kid looks older than that -- a teenager, maybe. Could this be another of the German composite photos, in this case with the prince's head superimposed on a man's body? Another Bain/LOC photo of German royalty, obviously doctored:

This never was Louis Ferdinand. Here in uniform during his wedding with Kyra Kyrillovna of russia.



Here another from this same sime circa 1927




The gent of this image is Luis Fernando (Louis Ferdinand) D`Orleans, son of Infanta Eulalia of spain and Antonio, duke of Galliera

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Fernando_de_Orleans_y_Bor...

Image

anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/annoshow?seite=19120106005&...

Turn of the century: Thanks for sorting out the identification. We have another Bain News Service negative that further substantiates that it's Luis Fernando: "Luis Fernando" appears on the negative that provides a cropped version of the same image, seen here in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.36835 . We'll adjust the name when we next update the description.

you welcome!im always glad to help