It even has testes :eek:
Dopefest!
Pershing was my first thought.
Sarge York of course. Famous WWI hero from TN
We visited there on our road trip from CA to TN in 2014. I can’t even begin describe the impact the trenches exhibit had on us, especially my son who was 15 at the time.
Archie Duke. He shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.
I’ll see your Wilfred Owen and raise you a Rupert Brooke.
Don’t even try the Siegfried Sassoon ploy…
Bismarck.
Yes, I know he technically wasn’t in the game any more by the time WW1 broke out, but it’s his policies and moreover the whole spirit he gave Germany (or maybe enabled in Germany might be more fair ?) that ultimately screwed the pooch.
It’s not a person but Simpson’s donkey.
We did Wilfred Owen at school.
And there was the guy that got assassinated, but I didn’t remember his name.
First thoughts are Archduke Ferdinand, von Richtofen, Pershing, the Kaiser, Rickenbacker, Churchill and Woodrow Wilson. If all but one name on the board were revealed, I had to choose a name and we were down to our last strike, I’d say, in order, Hitler, Albert Ball, and Hobey Baker.
Churchill, Red Baron, Sergeant Alvin York, Eddie Rickenbacker
Churchill The First Lord of the Admiralty was responsible for a major blunder at Gallipoli. He resigned and rejoined the Army to serve in France.
Lloyd George
Sgt. York
Kaiser Willi
Bismarck was at least smart enough to recognize the danger of a major war and work on avoiding it. He understood the importance of things like keeping France isolated, keeping Britain neutral, and keeping Austria and Russia from going to war over the Balkans. Another important thing Bismarck understood was that there were limits to how far a nation could push around other nations and Bismarck always backed off before that point.
Unfortunately for Germany, it took an awful lot of work to keep all these factors in balance and after Bismarck was gone, his successors tried to simplify the situation. But by doing so they threw off the balance of power and events began moving against Germany.
Gavrilo Princip.
Was trying to think of any famous women associated with WWI but could only up with Mata Hari.
I think I might start a Name a figure associated with The Charge Of The Light Brigade thread…
After Ferdinand, the only two I could think of (and these likely wouldn’t pop up on a Family Feud survey) were Alf Razzell and Bill Hubbard. The first and last tracks on Roger Waters’ album “Amused to Death” contain a haunting interview with an elderly Razzell in which he recounts his WW1 experience of attempting to carry a fatally wounded Hubbard across No Man’s Land; after a short distance Hubbard was in too much pain to continue, and Razzell had to abandon him there to die.
Edith Cavell was also shot as a spy.
My grandfather. He immigrated from Sicily and joined the U.S. Army and went to fight in France. We grew up with a picture of him in an Army uniform that included a sort of Smokey the Bear hat and holding a rifle.
Vittorio Orlando too (speaking of Sicilians), not from the war, but from the Versailles conference.