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According to Wikipedia, "Wladimir Rudolf Karl Freiherr Giesl von Gieslingen (18 February 1860 – 20 April 1936), was an Austro-Hungarian general and diplomat during World War I, most famous for delivering the ultimatum to the Serbian government during the July Crisis of 1914."

A blog posting about the photographer: cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com/category/photographer-pi...

Thanks for the information about the general, the photographer, and the date. We'll add some information when we update the description.

Not so fast. This is Arthur Giesl Freiherr von Gieslingen (1857-1935) Arthur Giesl Freiherr von Gieslingen (June 19 1857 in Krakow - December 3 1935 in Vienna ) was an Austrian general and director of the Office of evidence , the military intelligence service of the imperial monarchy. He was involved both in the Mayerling affair, as well as in the Redl affair that rocked the Danube Monarchy. Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Giesl_von_Gieslingen

www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/giesla.htm agrees with Richard Arthur Norton and indicates that Wladimir is a younger brother. Wladimir is shown at www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/gieslw.htm

Wow! Very pretty! Maybe Ian Fleming wasn't diverging too much from the reality of it all...

Postwar these events recorded in book and film as "The Man Who Never Was".

An excellent rundown of the whole (and completely amazing) story can be found here : entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainmen...

This is a priceless photograph - bonus points for being an adorable snapshot.

Fascinating. Pam made sure she was well-wrapped.

Its nice :)

Looks like it might have been taken at Dublin Castle or at an army barracks in Dublin. It identifies a few detectives from 'G Division' of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and other military figures, so it was probably used by IRA Intelligence, perhaps under the direction of Michael Collins.

#4 Col Johnstone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Edgeworth-Johnstone

The yard at Dublin Castle: Streetview.

Here is some info on Cas[s]maker, the Auxiliary.

[NOTE: A number of comments, not really related to the image and not all reflective of the spirit/vision for this project, have been removed. Apologies if anyone's intervening comments have been errantly removed from the thread as a result]