Ashley Hill
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Safari,so goody! Indeed it was. Your turn to throw a coconut into the monkeys mouth!
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GRALISTAIR
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I am traveling ( July 4th etc) so open floor please.
There were two British authors, quite close contemporaries (both long-lived; coincidentally, both died in 1961): who both wrote and published under the name of Frank Richards. This was the real name (pace a bit of family-related name-tinkering) of one; as regards the other, it was a pseudonym. Concerning respective subject-matter: a great difference between that of the one, and the other. Question: please tell re "which Frank Richards wrote about what" -- minute detail not asked for; but "virtual bonus points" for giving the real name of the one for whom aforesaid "FR" name, was pseudonymous.
Hint (maybe): though stated above, that the two authors' respective subject-matters were very different; there was a similarity in one way. Both authors wrote of different milieux, which however had in common, that they were often harsh for those involved in them, with strict discipline featuring; and were both, at that time in history, all-male environments.
The output of one Frank Richards, was fiction; the other's, factual / autobiographical.
The output of one Frank Richards, was fiction; the other's, factual / autobiographical.
Gloster
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I do know what one Frank Richards, the one that George Orwell thought must be several people because of his profligacy, wrote, but the other completely eludes me. Although I will probably kick myself once all is revealed as I feel I did once know.
I wasn't aware of the Orwell connection; but for sure, you have the correct chap as regards that one -- wrote assorted "series", under a different pseudonym for each (was "Frank Richards" for just one of such: reckoned the best-known). He also wrote copiously, under his real name ! Would you like to identify for us, that best-known series -- and more, if you wish? -- I feel that you might as well; but it's of course up to you.
EbbwJunction1
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The author of that name that I have read was Frank Richards a.k.a. Francis Philip Woodruff DCM MM (1883 – 1961), who was a soldier prior to and during the First World War. He wrote two autobiographical books - "Old Soldier Sahib" (about his service in India) and "Old Soldiers Never Die" (about his service during the First World War). There isn't a reference to George Orwell in his works, but the later one was written with the uncredited assistance of Robert Graves.
Yes, that's the non-fiction one -- writing under his real name ("pace ...", as we've intimated). Interesting situation now: you've got the soldier / autobiographer; @Gloster definitely looks to have the other, fiction-writing one, though he hasn't so far specified said chap's best-known series of books. (I infer that Orwell was referring to the fiction writer; with that bod having written a prodigious amount, with a different pseudonym for each of his several series; plus numerous short stories under his real name.) Can I, and you responders, perhaps negotiate as to what should happen next; including, determining setting of next question, by whom?
Gloster
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The ‘fiction’ Frank Richards wrote the Billy Bunter books among many other works. As I don’t know his real name I will defer to @EbbwJunction1 to write the next question. (I have mildly kicked myself as I had heard of the other Frank Richards, although the memory had disappeared to far back in my memory.)
EbbwJunction1
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Thank you, and my apologies for not replying sooner.
Staying with writers using pseudonyms, which writer used (amongst others - totalling 28 in all) the following names: Gordon Ashe; Henry St. John Cooper; Patrick Gill and J.J. Marric? (He also used his own name for several series.)
Staying with writers using pseudonyms, which writer used (amongst others - totalling 28 in all) the following names: Gordon Ashe; Henry St. John Cooper; Patrick Gill and J.J. Marric? (He also used his own name for several series.)
Ronnie Barker?
EbbwJunction1
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No, not Ronnie B, although he did write under other names.
Gloster
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John Creasey?
EbbwJunction1
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Gloster
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Where would you find (in this order):
The Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (a couple of accents missing on Libertacao)
The Ulster Defence Association
The Irish Republican Army?
The Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (a couple of accents missing on Libertacao)
The Ulster Defence Association
The Irish Republican Army?
Spamcan81
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On a list of organisations proscribed by UK Government?
Gloster
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Possibly, but probably not in that order.
It is their initials in questions that is the link.
Gloster
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No. (There is an MLPA, Marine Life Protection Act, in California, but that has nothing to do with the answer.)
Gloster
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This isn’t going well. It is a song and the next line mentions the UK.
DaleCooper
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We Didn't Start the Fire
Gloster
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No. It is older than that.
John Griffiths
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Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols?
Gloster
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Right…now. Your turn to ask the the question.
John Griffiths
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Apologies, I'm not going to be able to watch for replies so must plead Open Floor.
DaleCooper
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Gloster
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I have a vague feeling that HMS Pansy, probably without the HMS, was mentioned in Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea in a passage about the suitability of naming corvettes destined for service in the not always calm Atlantic after flowers. However, I don’t think that this is the answer as I don’t think that there was a real Flower-class corvette called Pansy. It sounds more like something from Gilbert & Sullivan.