Talk:Maurice de Forest

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Signature: File:Baron Mořic Arnold de Forest podpis.jpg foto: Maurice_Arnold_de_Forest.JPG Dendrofil (talk) 18:44, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Military Service?

The picture used shows him in a hussar uniform. As it was taken in 1910 it is either British Army or Austro-Hungarian (may be honorary). Would be worth investigating to account for this.Cloptonson (talk) 15:15, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

I think it must be the Staffordshire Yeomanry, and the photo was taken before 1910. A search of the online London Gazette archive shows that De Forest was commissioned into the Militia as a Second Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery (Eastern Division) on 25 August 1900. He resigned his commission on 20 June 1903, but this was later cancelled and he became Second Lieutenant in the Staffordshire Imperial Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) on 4 July 1903. He resigned this commission on 5 May 1906, by which time he was also an Honorary Second Lieutenant in the Army.

Who Was Who would probably have more information, but my local library has stopped its online subscription. Opera hat (talk) 23:33, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you - could you input this information to the main article - it is superior in sources and detail to what I have gathered from his biographical sketches in Who Was Who and Kelly's Handbook - perhaps immediately before the present section First World War and aftermath. I don't know if the Staffordshire Yeomanry had busbies and braided tunics but Artillery did.Cloptonson (talk) 13:04, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Loss of barony in Austria

Under German-Austrian law, de Forest lost the right to use the title "Freiherr von Forest", which had been granted to him by the Austrian emperor, as soon as the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz came into effect on 10 April 1919. That is, why I made this change. Kompetenter (talk) 20:43, 19 April 2026 (UTC)