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Coningham and the Cap Arcona

User:Wallie's addition of the link to the Cap Arcona events seems suspect to me. First of all the site cites wikipedia as it's only source, but it makes no mention of Arthur Coningham. Who are these 'Some [who] hold him responsible for the sinking of...'? And for a statement like 'and is often considered an atrocity..', the cited website is a long way from being a reliable source (despite its description as 'the Cap Arcona inquiry', it has really nothing to do with any official enquiry. (It reads like one man's blog pieced together from what he's read on wikipedia). Linking Coningham's command of RAF Second Tactical Air Force as proving personal culpability for this specific operation needs a reliable source, as at the moment it smells a lot like original research. Benea (talk) 00:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Cap Arcona if carrying prisoners should have been clearly marked as-such, that would have made the non-combatant nature of the vessel clear to anyone, and as a result the Typhoons would probably have left it alone.
The Germans did attempt to re-paint the SS Deutschland so that it could be recognised as-such from the air, but they ran out of white paint. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.57.101 (talk) 15:33, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Coningham (cricketer)

The present article does not gel with some of the references cited in the article about the cricketer of the same name. Was Arthur Coningham (cricketer) indeed the father of Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)? If so then I'd have thought it worth mentioning in the article, but perhaps there is some misinformation happening somewhere. Obviously the biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham would be the gold standard reference, and I presume was used in the writing of the article. Ernest the Sheep (talk) 08:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Both Orange's biography, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography say he was indeed the son of the cricketer, so I've brought this article into line. I don't know where the father's name as being Samuel came from. David Underdown (talk) 13:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nickname

Coningham got the name 'Mary' as a corruption of his original nickname; Māori - his RFC comrades called him that because he was a New Zealander. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.249.225 (talk) 22:13, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have in my possession a copy of Bernard Montgomery's memoirs (written in 1958) in which he thrice refers to "Maori" Coningham (pp256-7) so it appears the corruption to "Mary" was not universal. Johnmc2 (talk) 05:21, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, Coningham pronounced his surname the same as 'Cunningham'. They are just spelling variations of the same name.

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