Lt. Frank N. Sheets, of Madison, Indiana, was killed in action at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20th, 1863. My article on Sheets' life was recently published in the Autumn 2023 issue of Military Images magazine:
https://militaryimagesmagazine.com/2023/09/17/finding-aid-autumn-2023/
"MCNAUGHTON AIDE. - Lieut. Ian W. Bell-Irving, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bell-Irving, Onslow Place, West Vancouver, has been named aide-de-camp to Lieut.-General A. G. L. McNaughton overseas, according to word received here.
Lieut. Bell-Irving, a graduate of Shawnigan Lake School and King George High School, went overseas in April, 1942, to join the 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in England."
- from The Province (Vancouver). March 13, 1943. Page 5.
A fine set of fetlocks! by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Via Flickr:
Captain W.J. Baird, Aide de Camp to the Lord Lieutenant sits astride a really fine looking horse in this carefully posed image from the Poole Collection. Now we know the name of the soldier so now we want to know is the name of the horse??? +++ UPDATE +++ Thanks everyone, for confirmation that Captain James Baird was aide-de-camp to Lord Wimborne, Lord Lieutentant in Ireland, and that he was in that post in 1917 (newspaper reports). O Mac suggests Busoni as the horse's name, but we'd need some hard evidence. We're a tough crowd. Oh, and we always love to see John Spooner waxing lyrical about movable boudoirs! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: 1915 - 1917, most likely 1917 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2734 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
i know washingdad jokes are more of a fanon, musical thing but really. i genuinely believe in my soul that historical washington was the type of guy to hear his aides chant "we want mcdonalds we want mcdonalds" and silently enter the drive-through just to order one black coffee, no cream no sugar and leave.
( I start high school in 3 days btw so if anyone has any advice that'd be great, fyi: Australian high school starts at year 7. Americans do not give me advice for year 10)
*Soult is trying so very hard to look dignified as he examines the batlike wings on his back, but you can’t really look very dignified as you’re twisting and turning to look behind you. He is scowling.*
I did not want the moniker of “Devil King Nicolas” to be so literal.
Saint-Chamans: You should try flying!
Bory: Those wings wouldn’t be able to lift your body weight, but this is a fantastical place. I agree, you should try flying!
No. It is beneath me.
Lameth: *unable to contain himself and having just been freed from being grounded* No, the ground will be beneath you when you start flying!
… Correct. But I will not be attempting to do so in front of so many… onlookers.
Participated in pupbee.paws Meade art trade on Instagram! They requested light romance between Meade and lil Hammie ham ham! Personally, I dig this ship! They are so cute!
It all started with Elros wanting a cavalry. The Edain did not have any larger, or even moderately sized horseback regiment and the lack irked him. Truth be told, there was more of them that did not know how to ride, than those who knew, and there was not enough of the latter among any single people to make up one - but there was plenty enough between the three Houses, and the House of Bor, and the many disparate mortal groups that had wandered into Beleriand at some point or another.
The other indisputable fact is that, among the members of the high command, Elros was The Baby, and the general consensus was that if Elros wanted a cavalry he should have one.
In hindsight, this may have been the begining of a nation.
yes we can have historical accuracy or we can have the scene in george washington (1984) where washington shakes his soldiers' hands and embraces them- but gets to hamilton and ignores the offered hand to pull him into a tight hug with tears in his eyes.
so i don't know what you want from me.
btw the curly haired dude before hamilton is tench tilghman. my aides de camp.
#OTD in 1948 – Death of Gearóid O’Sullivan. He had the honour of raising the Tricolour over the GPO as fighting raged the streets of Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising.
Gearóid O’Sullivan, then 25, was the youngest IRB officer fighting in the GPO (three months younger than his cousin Michael Collins). He had been personally chosen by leader Seán Mac Diarmada to serve as his aide-de-camp.
He was an Irish teacher, Irish language scholar, army officer, barrister and Sinn Féin and Fine Gael politician. Following the Rising, he was interned in Frongoch in Wales with…