Who's Who - Miscellaneous
This sub-section of the Who's Who
category of the site contains folio biographies for miscellaneous entries
not found within one of the four other available categories.
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Entries include the press barons Lords Beaverbrook and Northcliffe; and also such varied personalities as the leader of the Serbian Black Hand secret society and the convicted spy and temptress, Mata Hari.
In addition to the biographies presented below, click here to view contemporary photographs within the Vintage Photographs section of the site.
| Biographies | Description |
|---|---|
 Sir William Babtie |
Director of Medical Supplies |
| Bruce Bairnsfather |
Cartoonist |
| Sir Herbert Baker |
War Graves Architect |
 Charles Bean |
Official War Historian |
| Lord Beaverbrook |
Minister of Information |
 Pope Benedict XV |
Successor to Pius X |
| Robert Blackburn |
Aircraft Designer |
| Sir Reginald Blomfield |
Architect of Menin Gate |
 Paul Bolo |
Traitor |
| Sir Muirhead Bone |
War Artist |
| Fenner Brockway |
Home Secretary |
| George Butterworth |
Composer/Collector |
| Sir Roger Casement |
Irish Nationalist |
| Edith Cavell |
Nurse |
| Tubby Clayton |
Founder of 'Toc H' |
 George M Cohan |
Composer and Playwright |
| George Creel |
Head of CPI Department |
| Harry Dalziel |
VC Holder |
 Dragutin Dimitrijevic |
Leader, Black Hand Society |
| Sir James Edmonds |
Official War Historian |
| Sir James Alfred Ewing |
Head of Room 40 |
| Arthur Fields |
Music Hall Performer |
 Anton Fokker |
Aircraft Designer |
| Sir Philip Gibbs |
Journalist |
| Samuel Gompers |
AFL Union Leader |
| Fritz Haber |
Scientist |
| Sir William Hall |
Director of Naval Intelligence |
| Maurice Hankey |
Secretary of War Cabinet |
| Evelina Haverfield |
Suffragette/WRAC Commandant |
| Adolf Hitler |
Soldier |
| Elsie Inglis |
Suffragette/Medical Pioneer |
| John Jackson |
V.C. Holder |
 Raphael Kirchner |
Illustrator |
| John Simpson Kirkpatrick |
ANZAC War Hero |
| Sir Harry Lauder |
Musician |
 Percy Wyndham Lewis |
Artist |
| Walter Lippmann |
Assistant to Secretary of War |
| Carl Lody |
Convicted German Spy |
| Sir Edwin Lutyens |
War Graves Architect |
| Geoffrey Malins |
Official Photographer |
| Charles Masterman |
Head of War Propaganda |
 Mata Hari |
Dancer/Convicted Spy |
| Sir Hiram Maxim |
Inventor of Machine Gun |
| John Benjamin McDowell |
Official Photographer |
 Desire Mercier |
Cardinal |
| Sir William Mills |
Inventor of Mills Bomb |
| Sir Keith Murdoch |
Journalist |
| Paul Nash |
War Artist |
| Walter Nernst |
Scientist |
| Christopher Nevinson |
War Artist |
| Henry Nevinson |
Journalist |
| Lord Northcliffe |
Director of Propaganda |
| Sir John Norton-Griffiths |
Mining Liaison Officer |
| Ivor Novello |
Composer and Playwright |
| Sir William Orpen |
Artist |
| Gabrielle Petit |
Executed Spy |
| Gavrilo Princip |
Assassin of Franz Ferdinand |
| Louis Raemaekers |
Propaganda Cartoonist |
 Grigory Rasputin |
Advisor to Tsar and Tsarina |
| Charles Repington |
Journalist |
| Flora Sandes |
Nurse/Serbian Soldier |
| Alfred Shout |
VC Holder |
| Wilfred Stokes |
Inventor of Stokes Mortar |
| William Stones |
Executed at Dawn |
| Sir Ernest Swinton |
General |
| Karl von Tappen |
Scientist |
| Bert Thomas |
Artist |
| John Thompson |
Weapons Designer |
| Arnold Toynbee |
Historian |
| Sir Fabian Ware |
Founder, CWGC |
| Lewis Yealland |
Psychiatrist |
| Felix Yusupov |
Assassin of Grigory Rasputin |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Inventor of Zeppelin |
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"Eggs-a-cook" were boiled eggs sold by Arab street vendors. It was later used by Anzac soldiers when going over the top.
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