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World War I turned up. Crerar entered it as a lieutenant of artillery, left it a lieutenant colonel. Now he was fixed to stay in the Army for good. He studied at the Staff College at Camberley in England, got a duty tour at the Imperial War Office, went back to Canada and taught tactics where he had learned them, at Kingston. In 1916 he had married a handsome Toronto girl in London. They have a married daughter, and a 21-year-old son, Peter, who is a lieutenant with the Canadians in Italy. Crerar pere was in Italy when...
...England. He tried every kind of writing (even advertisements), attempted many plays, but never repeated his early successes. With Mark Twain, Harte collaborated on a comedy, Ah Sin; it was a failure. Bret Harte was still toiling away at his hack-writing when Death came for him in Camberley...
...admiral, then as a general in the British Army & Navy golf matches at Camberley Heath. As an admiral he lost to a general,-5 & 4. Playing with a partner for the Army, he beat a pair of admirals by the same score. The Army...
...golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm of a country jingle. Inexperienced. Miss Fishwick's efforts to surpass herself kept a niblick in her hand a good deal of the time. Consistently down the middle. Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath took the match, the title...
...Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...