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Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB GCMG GCVO GBE (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Plumer,_1st_Viscount_Plumer

Richard Norton: Thank you for the additional details for about Herbert Plumer and his service in World War I. We have later photos of Plumer (as High Commissioner for the British Mandate in Palestine) in the Matson Photograph Collection. For example: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2004007194/PP/

the 1925 date on the negative may be for a re-use, as he doesn't look 68 in this photo.

"The French cruiser Amiral Aube was an armored cruiser of the Gloire class that was built for the French Navy in the early 1900s." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Amiral_Aube www.worldnavalships.com/amiral_aube.htm fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiral_Aube According to this article, she was docked at Pier 9 in the North (Hudson) River while in New York in May, 1917 [Rector and West Streets]: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85049554/1917-05-07/ed-... A different Bain photo of an acrobatic sailor from the Amiral Aube ran in the New York Tribune, May 13, 1917 with the caption: "A French sailor-acrobat. He is one of the crew of the cruiser Amiral Aube, which docked at New York last week, and is proving here that he is as dexterous atop the machine-gun as behind it." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-05-13/ed-... A similar shot taken from above ran in the South Bend news-times., May 05, 1917 with the caption: "A deck scene on board the French cruiser Amiral Aube. which put in to New York after escorting to American shores the ship that brought Gen. Joffre and the French war mission. The Amiral Aube is the first warship of the allies to put in at New York since the outbreak of the war." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87055779/1917-05-05/ed-... The Evening star. (Washington, D.C.) , May 13, 1917, ran a photo of the ship with the caption: "French cruiser Admiral Aube, first allied fighter to come into New York harbor since United States entered the war." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1917-05-13/ed-...

Thanks Art Siegel, we'll update this catalog record and the ones for the 3 other similar photos.

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