[WWI] Dresses, anyone?

[Douglas Anderson]

Yes
  These dark shores have been illuminated on the odd occasion by you sons of colonialists.
  Actually we owe you a debt of thanks, you colonialism brought us cricket!
  Hmm, only one problem, it would appear that I am an inbred remnant of a once proud colony.
  I guess I should thank my forefathers for bringing the odd encyclopaedia to these dusty shores.

Diego Fernetti <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar> wrote:
  I see that some copies of the Enciclopædia reached African coasts...
D.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Anderson" 
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" 
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Dresses, anyone?


> REading these exchanges has sparked a memory from deep in teh recesses of 
> my mind (or what is left of it anyway). I have a book at home that 
> describes an incident where I think Germans reported coming across a 
> female fighter pilot. If the olf grey matter is working, I seem to recall 
> that this chap was an actor or something, and would often fly with a wig 
> on, and in his stage dress. I think he was a female imressionist.
>
> Also, does anyone know of a balloonist during the great war who was also 
> an actor in his previous life. This man would parachute down wearing a top 
> hat and tails and, with his walking stick, pretend to be walking while the 
> silk carried him to Earth?
>
> Jan Vihonen wrote:
> Mike Kavanaugh wrote:
>
>>>>Phillip Prothero, 56 Squadron.
>>>>Rick G.
>>
>> Sans anything over or under??? Either an unfeeling eunuch or the courage 
>> that
>> defeats entire armies. Gives an entirely new meaning to the term, 
>> "Freezing
>> your a** off".
>>
> To cite Ralph Barker's The Royal Flying Corps in World War I: "The
> red-haired Prothero, as McCudden soon discovered, was an extrovert. A
> true Scotsman, with a burr hard to decipher after a dram or two, he
> insisted on wearing a kilt at all times. When he returned from a patrol
> his knees would be blue from the cold 'and the hair thereon would stick
> out like bristles on a hog', according to Canadian collegue V.P. 'Versh'
> Cronyn. One day Cronyn asked him why he punished himself in this way, to
> which prothero replied: 'You wouldna have me taken prisoner in disguise,
> would you now, laddie?'"
>
> With his name I was able to find the passus he was mentionned in. Quite
> a character, I say.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
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