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Excellent image. Nice it's on Flickr. I'm Irish so I have to comment...

This is absolutely magickal. Thank you for sharing it.

Wow.

What a fantastic photo!

wow, its absolutely fantastic, amazing, the moment, the figure, the composition and the identity that the picture brings up. thanks a million for sharing this!

Senior Chief Nderi of Nyeri, murdered on 23 October 1952, three days after the Emergency was proclaimed. He was "a tough and gallant old man" (The Sunday Times, 24 October 1952, p. 8).

Senior Chief Nderi accompanied by two Tribal Policemen had come across a crowd of several hundred at an oathing ceremony organised by Dedan Kimathi. When he ordered them to disperse, because by then oathing had been outlawed by the Government Authorities, they rounded on him and hacked him and his two policemen to death. ("Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau" by David Lovatt Smith ISBN 0-9544713-2-6 - paper back - 2005 - page 142.)

this man....my great-grandfather....

This man my great Grand father is A Great hero. He deserves To Have A Statue Erected in One of the heros corner. in commemoration of the hero who straggles for sanity and deserves compensation for he died in the service of his country.

He is no hero. He is a Home Guard collaborator. Serving the interests of his white masters. I could pour more vitriol but am kind.

Which is it: W.T. Senior,or W.Talbot, Sr. At last report, the Talbots claim no link to the Plantagenets,but descent from William the Conqueror's illegitimate son, Hugh, Bishop of Taleboth, France. There once was a war dog called a Talbot, a large white mastiff type. These dogs descend from the alaunt, a breed brought to Europe by the Alans from the Steppes. Many Alans settled near Orleans, and helped stop the Huns.

It is Walter Talbot Senior, who enlisted in 1914 as a Private in the Royal Fusiliers and was subsequently commissioned on probation as Second Lieutenant W T Senior in the West Yorkshire Regiment on 23rd June 1916. [London Gazette of 27 Jun 1916]. Walter Senior is commemorated at St Helen's Church in Sandal. From their website at www.sandal.org.uk/ww1.html there is the following: Second Lieutenant Walter Talbot Senior, 6th Bn, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), died aged 22 on 3 September 1916. Son of Arthur Senior, of Manygates Park Sandal. Buried at Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme. His eldest brother, Lieutenant Joseph Senior, was killed in action aged 24 while serving as an observer navigator with the 45 Sqn RFC (ex 11th West Yorkshires) on 9 May 1917. Another brother, George, was an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was attached to the Sherwood Foresters. Second Lieutenant Walter Talbot Senior, of the West Yorkshire Regiment, was reported missing at Thiepval on September 3rd. During the attack he was seized by four Germans and pushed into one of their dugouts. Later on he escaped bringing with him a supply of German bombs, which he used with great effect against the Hun. No further news has been received of him... All the brothers were educated at Wakefield Grammar School and each gave promise of exceptional education powers. Note: A photograph was published on the Wakefield Express, 19 May 1917//.

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