Lets see your British Army Dress/forage Caps and chat!!!

[BobS]

Gotcha, I should have looked closer. You know what happens when you assume!
No name in mine by the way.
I have a few caps with identifiable initials from Army Lists. One of my closest friends has a field marshal's dress visor named to Sir Richard Hull, late 17th/21st Lancers and I have a khaki cap of the same regiment named to his ADC!
That's the only FM cap I have ever seen.

[Jerry B]

the names (writing) in my 11th hussars forage cap

[Jerry B]

Obituary: Viscount Allenby of Meggido, soldier and Deputy Lord Speaker
Born: 20 April, 1931, in London. Died: 3 October, 2014, in Hampshire, aged 83
By The Newsroom
Monday, 20th October 2014,

Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby of Felixstowe and Megiddo, was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 11th Hussars (later the Royal Hussars) and served with the *armoured cavalry in various hot-spots: notably in Malaya (1953-1956). He acted as aide-de-camp to the governor of *Cyprus (1957-8), Brigade Major of the 51st Brigade in Hong Kong (1967-9) and commanded the Royal Yeomanry (TA) (1974-7).


Before retiring from the army in 1986 Allenby was an instructor at the Staff College in *Nigeria.

Allenby took his seat in the House of Lords in 1985 and served as its Deputy Speaker from 1993 to 1999. He was a regular attender at the Upper House and served on many *internal committees.

Having lost his automatic right to a seat under the House of Lords Act 1999, he was never*theless elected by his crossbench hereditary colleagues to remain in the House. It was a mark of the respect in which he was held by his fellows that he retained his seat.

One of Allenby’s passions was the excavations at Megiddo in Israel; the site has enormous theological significance especially under its Greek name – Armageddon. In 1918 his great uncle had commanded the British troops in the Battle of Megiddo against the defending Ottoman troops.


The area has been the site of several important archaeological digs over the centuries and Allenby and his wife Sara often joined the archaeologists from Tel Aviv University – spending days in the hot sun with a trowel and carefully removing the sand from artefacts. They stayed with the team in a nearby kibbutz and had long discussions into the night about their finds of the day. Allenby was a tremendous enthusiast for the *excavations and admitted on one of his last visits to the site, aged 80, “We find it absolutely riveting to be here and see the work progressing so well.”

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Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby - Wikipedia

[Jerry B]

Category:11th Hussars officers - Wikipedia

[Jerry B]

This is the father of the Allenby posted above and after this post and though he served in the 11th Hussars in 1936 it is probably his son whose cap it was, though...

Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby - Wikiwand


Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby (8 January 1903 – 17 July 1984), was a British peer and soldier.[1]

Background and education
The son of Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and Edith Mabel (née Jaffray) Allenby, he succeeded his uncle as 2nd Viscount Allenby on the latter's death on 14 May 1936. He attended Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Career
Allenby joined the 11th Hussars in 1923, served in India, 1923–26, after which he served as an Adjutant in the 11th Hussars, 1926–30. He was an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1930 to 1934. He attained the rank of Captain in 1936, served in Egypt, 1934–37. He served as an Adjutant in the Army Fighting Vehicles School, 1937–40; he became a Major, 1938. He was second in Command of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, 1940–42, and a Lt-Col of the 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry from 1942. He retired in 1946.

Family
Lord Allenby married firstly, Gertrude Mary Lethbridge Champneys (d.1988), daughter of Edward Geoffrey Stanley Champneys, on 10 July 1930. They had one son:

Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby (1931–2014)
The couple were divorced in 1949. Allenby married secondly, Daisy Hancox (d. 1985), daughter of Charles Francis Hancox, on 13 April 1949.

[Jerry B]

Viscount Allenby | The Times

Michael Jaffray Hynman Allenby, son of the second viscount, was educated at Eton and RMA Sandhurst and commissioned into the 11th Hussars in 1951. Active service followed almost immediately when his regiment was deployed to Malaya during the communist insurrection that began in 1948. He served with a squadron in the armoured reconnaissance and convoy protection roles in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan states.

From Malaya he went to another trouble spot — Cyprus in the grip of the Eoka terrorist campaign to bring about union with Greece. He was ADC to Field Marshal Lord Harding when Harding was governor of Cyprus and helped to remove a bomb smuggled into the residence with the aim of killing the field marshal.

The rest of his military career was relatively conventional. He was chief of staff of 51st Brigade in Hong Kong at the time of the Mao-inspired “cultural revolution” when the riots that erupted on the island and in Kowloon caused immense damage. He commanded the Royal Yeomanry in the mid-1970s and was then a member of the directing staff at the Nigerian Staff College.


He was drawn to archaeology through excavations at Megiddo, the site of his great uncle’s 1918 triumph against the Turks on the Plain of Sharon, where Emir Feisal’s tribesmen, spurred on by Lawrence, harassed their lines of communication.

Of greater historical significance, Megiddo is the location of many battles, including one between the Egyptians and Canaanites in the 15th century BC and another fought by the Egyptians and Assyrians against the Babylonians in 609 BC.

In company with archaeologists from Tel Aviv university, Allenby and his wife Sara would spend long hours in the sun, trowels in hand fossicking away. Evenings at a nearby kibbutz passed gossiping about recent finds. On his last visit in 2011, he expressed his satisfaction with the work achieved. And, as a patron of the British-Israel-World Federation, he lost no opportunity to raise the profile of the excavations.

[BobS]

Really great stuff, Jerry. Congratulations.

BobS

[Jerry B]

Really great stuff, Jerry. Congratulations.

BobS

thanks Bob.

it was your mention of names in caps that inspired me to do a search and it came up with the above.

[Anderson]

Interesting Jerry. That Allenby name is well known to anyone familiar with WW1 action in the Holy land and Jerusalem. Perhaps the first Viscount. I believe General Allenby dismounted from his horse ( as he should) to enter Jerusalem.

[BobS]

I forgot to mention that Alllenby's only son, an officer in the RHA,was killed in action during WWI, so the title passed to his nephew upon his death.

BobS