One of the Oddest, "Leaders" of The Great War

[Anonymous 0]

As some may know I research The Great War in some of my spare time, I follow a youTube channel that is broadcasting in parallel 100 years ago week by week and that’s how I came across this odd figure of the British military in one of their special episodes. I had to find out more and honestly have not found too much more, getting tired already this evening but I thought I would share what I found so far. This man was sure different than most “leaders’ of the war. I put leader in quotes since after reading about him and watching the video, I feel he really stretches the term leader, but none the less one of history’s oddest characters in my opinion. I imagine some of the Brits on here are quite more familiar with this odd character, but I had never ever heard of this man before.

Here is a Wiki link to this rather odd duck,

And Lastly here is the video episode of the series I follow where I first learned of this man.

Enjoy!

[Anonymous 0]

Woops the links didn’t make it.
1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Spicer-Simson
2
https://warisboring.com/a-strange-braggarts-incompetent-naval-career-in-the-heart-of-africa-89f52a37e40d#.6u35uddse

[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

Arghhh! Geoffrey Spicer-Simson acted the best way corsairs did. Raise the Jolly Roger!

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

[RumpoleParticipant 996]

Excellent video! There is a book about this: Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Naval Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden.
This would make an excellent feature film.

[Anonymous 0]

Rumpole wrote:

Excellent video! There is a book about this: Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Naval Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden.
This would make an excellent feature film.

If your into history the channel that the video is from The Great War is well worth watching through, I have done so and keep up with it weekly. They do some very good presentations, this was a subject very under taught in my schooling, so I naturally wanted to know more.

To me when it comes to the battle of Lake Tanganyika, what really amazes me is what each side did to get their respective machines of war on the water of an inland lake. Not to mention Spicer-Simson has to be one of the most interesting men of the war in my opinion. If done right what a film that would be the events just leading up to the battle, were massive under takings on both sides wither cutting a railway through the jungle to haul motor boats or building a ship out of country disassembling it into roughly 5000 crates and hauling it by trains and carriers to reassemble at the lake itself. Then there are the events of the battle for the lake itself. Hunt and being hunted.

Suggestius wrote:

Arghhh! Geoffrey Spicer-Simson acted the best way corsairs did. Raise the Jolly Roger!
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I need to watch that movie, it looks hilarious!

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