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And relatively cheap, most officers in the day had stories and the research potential from your lap top is huge....I have been looking at the newspapers for the time and the Princess and the Captain are all over the world....US, Europe etc Then it all comes down to this......

Single British War Medal to; Captain W.R. Cartwright 13th Battalion King’s Royal Rifles. Walter Roland Cartwright was from one of the most prominent early families in Ontario. His family had extensive land holdings in in the Kingston area including a historic mansion located in Kingston. His family was very politically active and his grandfather was a personal friend and mentor to our first Prime Minister John A. MacDonald. His Bio is included at the bottom of the listing. Walter Roland Cartwright was born in Kingston in 1887. In 1899 he was attending school at Highbury House, England. In 1900 he enrolled at Upper Canada College, listed as a ward of A.B. Cameron of 88 Crescent Road, Toronto. In 1904 he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. In June 1914 he retired from the military with the rank of Captain. In August 1914 he was in Austria when the war broke out. He became a civil prisoner, but for some reason the Austrians did not permanently intern him. On the 17th of May 1915 he was back in England and enlisted as an officer in the B.E.F. He was appointed Captain in the 12th Battalion of the Kings Royal Rifles Corps and served in France and Belgium including Zillebeke and Sanctuary Wood on June 2nd, 1916 where the Canadian Corps suffered huge losses. On the 17th of July 1919 he was serving in Russia at Battalion Staff Officer returning to the UK in October 26, 1919. He retired from the military in 1919. He died in 1925 In 1915 The British Police and Security Services had a watch on him and concerns were raised as to him wearing uniform prior to being re-commissioned as well as his connection to Princess Colloredo-Mansfield (formally Lucy Sophie Yvonne (Maiden name, Jonquet) born in Peckham, Surrey (24.1.1878) and formally widow of John Graham, died in Rome April 1940) , Married in Paris 1903 (divorced 10.3.1925) wife of Prince Joseph Hieronymus Rudolf Ferdinand Franz Maria Furst von Colloredo-Mannsfeld. In 1904 the Prince was in the procession of arranging an annulment of his recent marriage, Last year, he married Lucy Sophie Jonquet, a widow, believed to be an "Englishwoman by birth. They married at Paris last April, and spent the "remainder of the spring in the Riviera," and then travelled to Prague, where the prince has a palace. He and his wife gave many parties and were often also "entertained a great deal." A problem arose when it became time to present his wife at court. Questions were raised about her lineage. Wives of Austrian and Hungarian nobles must "prove to the satisfaction of the grand chamberlain in Vienna" that they are of "aristocratic parentage," on both sides, and be free of "bourgeois and plebeian strains" in order to be accepted at court. The new Princess of Colloredo-Mansfield was unable to satisfy the court's requirements. She could not even prove that her parents were noble. According to the Colloredo-Mansfeld family statutes, no male member of the house can marry a woman who does not belong to a "sovereign house or a mediatized family" without the consent of the adult male members of the house. The marriage was approved because the Prince gave the impression that his bride was of "noble English birth. This has proven to be false, and now the union will be viewed as "invalid," and the prince has begun proceedings to have the marriage annulled, due to the marriage having been "contracted in defiance of the laws of the house." In Austria, the family statutes of the mediatized families "carry much weight" and are "acknowledged by national tribunals." The marriage is expected to be annulled on the grounds that the princess did not "possess the necessary qualifications of birth and lineage," as required by the house of Colloredo-Mansfield. The marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1925 Captain Cartwright was clearly involved with the Princess and this is also confirmed in the police report, he was also brought before the magistrates for un-paid bills while a serving officer and declared bankrupt in 1916 Yet to find out what he did in Russia

Cheers Leigh, had it down as Australian

Not in this book, not sure its British

No I have her sisters brief notes on her father but nothing on Sheila, I would imagine her work continued for a considerable time and she took her secrets to her grave...

Geoff, no idea on age, but I would look at Spain and someone with religious leanings, bishop maybe, family coat of arms??

Thanks Guys....after a photograph at the moment

Interesting single British war medal to Sergeant Henry Marquis Ozanne, 9th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles Murdered by Lieutenant Georges Coderre, acting adjutant of the 41st Canadian Infantry Battalion at Arundel, Grayshott December 8, 1915 during a robbery attempt. Ozanne was Divisional Canteen Sergeant of the 9th Canadian Mounted Rifles and Coderre believed him to have a large amount of cash in his possession. Coderre was sentenced to death in civilian court, however this sentence was later commuted to a term of imprisonment when Coderre was judged to be insane. Sgt Ozanne was born in Guernsey and had served 17 months with London Rifle Brigade and 6 years with Hampshire Regiment prior to moving to Canada.

Thanks Bernhard, makes sense

Many thanks Bernhard, wonder if they were tanks?

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I am sure I have posted this before.....sorry if I have, We have Franz Gerdelmann serving with Garde Pioneer Ersatz Battalion, 2 Ersatz Kompanie and 3 Ersatz Kompanie, Minenwerfer School and Minenwerfer Kompanie 282, Transferred to Kommando 1 Abteilung, 2 Matrosen Division am I missing anything interesting, signatures? service? many thanks, Paul

Thanks my friend, sadly does not help us obtain a copy, need the ISBN number or website

Hi could we have the ISBN numbers and where his books can be purchased (may help his sales ;-).....) thanks P

Chris I agree with Hoss, looks like the epaulettes have been removed and added as well as the wrong buttons

Can anyone identify him, thanks, P

Bernard, what's his initials the roll has cp and ep same number, seems he may have served in the 3rd Bn

Thanks Jens

Hi can anyone confirm if this is Von Baden's signature, thanks, Paul

Just got the last one from Amazon UK....

I would say maybe!!, the shoulder tab appears to be hand made or theatre made so could be Italian and that formation badge was for the UK only so if the person came back to the UK after serving in Italy from May 1945 What is the date on the tunic?

Northumbrian District (Northern Command) circa 1942, also worn by the Northumbrian Home Guard, St Oswald's Shield

British War and Victory, named to S Todd-Naylor, Mi5, British military mission Rome, 1918 Not many of these around I would guess.......Sheila Todd-Naylor was the Daughter of Henry Paul Todd-Naylor CIE, CSI who was Commissioner Bhamo frontier district (died 1910) and sister of William Bryan Todd-Naylor KRRC who was killed in Action 1916. She served in Mi5 in the British Military Mission in Rome in 1918. The MI5 run British Military Mission to Italy had the responsibility to ensure that after the defeated at Caporetto and after the Bolshevik revolution took Russia out of the war that a similar turn of events in Italy may take them out of the war. She was born on 12 Nov 1895 and baptised on 28 Nov 1895 at Bhamo, West Bengal and married in 1919 Luther Holden Barford who was also serving in Mi5 (serving in Rome with Sheila). Sheila and Luther divorced in about 1935. She subsequently married Herbert J. Paton, White's Professor of moral philosophy at Oxford. Paton served with the Admiralty's Intelligence Division during the First World War and became an expert on Polish affairs in which capacity he attended the Versailles conference in 1919.

Single WW1 British War Medal to;Lucien Francois, British and French Agent, Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur, Medaille Militaire and British Empire Medal (not with the group) . Shot at Dawn, 27 December 1916 at St Quentin Prison, was part of "Groupe Victor" employed as a radio operator reporting train movements for British military intelligence, Mentioned in despatches London Gazette 12 September 1919.former railway worker he served for three years in the 133eme Regiment d'infantrie 1909-1912, he mobilised in 1914 and was serving on the Yser front when volunteers were sought with knowledge of Railways and in areas occupied by the Germans. All of "Group Victor" were captured when Victor Marie was captured and defected to the Germans. Victor Marie had previously been awarded the DCM. The medals were purchased loose and were about to be sold, the French Croix de Guerre is the 1914-16 type In 1920 his body was exhumed and reinterned at Crevecoeur-sur-Escaut. A memorial to him and other members is at St Quentin Prison