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Professional boxer from Montana. www.fightsrec.com/tom-mccarty-tom-mccarthy.html In a newspaper article from November, 1914, McCarty is mentioned as "the newest White hope", referring to the effort to find a White boxer to unseat Black boxer Jack Johnson, who had won the heavyweight championship in 1908. news.google.com/newspapers?id=PPxbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mlQNA...

I think that is an "H" on the negative, and this is Henry Irslinger on the left, an Austrian best known as a champion wrestler. www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/h/henry-irslinger... However in 1914 he was managing Tom McCarty. In a newspaper article from November, 1914, McCarty is mentioned as "the newest White hope", referring to the effort to find a white boxer to unseat Black boxer Jack Johnson, who had won the heavyweight championship in 1908. news.google.com/newspapers?id=PPxbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mlQNA...

Thanks for providing the links artolog. It appears that Henry Irslinger was managing Tommy McCarty in 1914. We'll make the change to the caption and add the date to the record the next time we update.

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104057457 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104057131

I really cant believe that I am seeing the photo of my Grandad on the internet, I have had the above photo all my life, and there were in fact two photos taken at the same time only slighty different. My grandfather is the young man in the trench at the back.His helmet has a dent in it which was made by a german bullet. He was in the royal warwickshire regiment I believe it was the 16th battalion. He told me that all the men in the picture were killed, he was the only one who survived. His brother was in the royal artillary, and the both went through the war, with my grandfather joining at fourteen

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called British Army, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Fascinating story Colin!