Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset, Alexander Godley, Kenneth Hegan, William Redmond, Emmet Dalton, George Norton Cory, Sir John Esmonde, 14th Baronet, Cecil Romer, Edmund Barrow, Basil Maclear, Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset, Nigel Ball, Philip James Shears. Excerpt: Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC (7 August 1886 - 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars. He was born of British parents at 7 chaussee de la Muette in the fashionable district of Passy in Paris on 7 August 1886; France would remain the land of his childhood. His parents, Charles McCarthy Spiers and Melicent Marguerite Lucy Hack, were British residents of France. His paternal grandfather was the noted lexicographer, Alexander Spiers, who had published an English-French and French-English dictionary in 1846. The work was extremely successful and adopted by the University of France for French Colleges. Edward Louis Spears changed his name from 'Spiers' to 'Spears' in 1918. He claimed that the reason was his irritation at the mispronunciation of Spiers, yet it is possible that he wanted an English looking name - something more in keeping with his rank as a brigadier-general and head of the British Military Mission to the French War Office. He denied that he was of Jewish stock, but his great-grandfather had been an Isaac Spiers of Gosport who married Hannah Moses, a shopkeeper of the same town. His ancestry was no secret. In 1918 the French ambassdor in London described him as "a very able and intriguing Jew who insinuates himself everywhere." His parents separated while he was a child, and his maternal grandmother played an important role...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Dublin Fusiliers Officers: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset. To get started finding Royal Dublin Fusiliers Officers: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Royal Dublin Fusiliers Officers: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset, Alexander Godley, Kenneth Hegan, William Redmond, Emmet Dalton, George Norton Cory, Sir John Esmonde, 14th Baronet, Cecil Romer, Edmund Barrow, Basil Maclear, Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset, Nigel Ball, Philip James Shears. Excerpt: Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC (7 August 1886 - 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars. He was born of British parents at 7 chaussee de la Muette in the fashionable district of Passy in Paris on 7 August 1886; France would remain the land of his childhood. His parents, Charles McCarthy Spiers and Melicent Marguerite Lucy Hack, were British residents of France. His paternal grandfather was the noted lexicographer, Alexander Spiers, who had published an English-French and French-English dictionary in 1846. The work was extremely successful and adopted by the University of France for French Colleges. Edward Louis Spears changed his name from 'Spiers' to 'Spears' in 1918. He claimed that the reason was his irritation at the mispronunciation of Spiers, yet it is possible that he wanted an English looking name - something more in keeping with his rank as a brigadier-general and head of the British Military Mission to the French War Office. He denied that he was of Jewish stock, but his great-grandfather had been an Isaac Spiers of Gosport who married Hannah Moses, a shopkeeper of the same town. His ancestry was no secret. In 1918 the French ambassdor in London described him as "a very able and intriguing Jew who insinuates himself everywhere." His parents separated while he was a child, and his maternal grandmother played an important role...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Dublin Fusiliers Officers: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset. To get started finding Royal Dublin Fusiliers Officers: Edward Spears, Harry Harcourt, Tom Kettle, Robert Barton, Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.