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Charles Robert Finch Noyes
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Charles Robert Finch Noyes
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1918
8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (202 mm x 150 mm) image size
Purchased, 1996
Photographs Collection
NPG x85756
Sitterback to top
- Charles Robert Finch Noyes (1886-1948), Lieutenant-Colonel and author. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 42746 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 25 Old Bond Street , London)
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Despite the suspension of the Suffrage movement during the war, the Government finally agrees to grant women the right to vote as recognition of their vital role in the war effort. However, The Representation of the People Act only extended the franchise to female householders and university graduates over 30. Equal rights to men were not granted until 1928.Art and science
War Poet, Wilfred Owen, is killed in action just a week before the end of the war. His poems, including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth, tell of the horror of war in the trenches and the tragic loss of a generation of young men who enthusiastically signed up to fight in a war that became seen as futile rather than glorious.International
British representative, Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, signs the Armistice calling a ceasefire on the 11th November 1918 and ending the war. Germany and Austria loose their empires and become republics. Around the same time a global flu pandemic brakes out - known in England as Spanish Flu - killing 50-100 million people within a year compared to 15 million fatalities from the four years of war.Comments back to top
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Simon Gunn
21 September 2016, 21:04
Born 25 May 1886 at Sutton in Surrey. Joined Royal Navy as assistant paymaster on 25 July 1907. Became a flying instructor 23 Dec 1913. In Royal Naval Air Service at Felixstowe, then Calshot. Commanding Officer at Killingholme, also on staff of Rear-Admiral, East Coast of England. Appointed CO at RAF Catfirth in Shetland, 2 April 1918. Appointed to Air Ministry 30 April 1919. Awarded Distinguished Service Order and Air Force Cross. In WW2 promoted to Wing Commander, worked at Ministry of Supply and Technical Branch. After WW2 he worked for the Crittal Company. Died in Rhodesia 19 March 1948.
Married twice: 8 June 1913, Phyllis Desmond with whom he had a son George. Divorced and married Miss Frances May, 19 Jan 1929.