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...royal family came news that Lord Frederick Charles Edward Cambridge, cousin of King George VI and favorite nephew of Queen Mary, had also died in the Battle of Flanders as a captain in the elite Coldstream Guards, leaving his elder brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, without a male heir...
...Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
Missing. Lord Frederick Cambridge, 32, captain in the Coldstream Guards, first cousin to King George VI; somewhere in northern France...
...save face-an important matter in the East-by restoring order to show that she was master of the situation. More British troops having landed, Britain finally began her reconquest of Palestine. With 3,000 soldiers standing by at nearby Gethsemane, Bethlehem and around Jerusalem, Black Watch Coldstream Guards and Royal Northumberland Fusiliers scaled the old Roman walls, marched in through the Biblical Dung and Zion Gates, began to clean up the Old City's underground labyrinths...
...Author. "Inviting Stuart Cloete to dinner," complains his novelist-friend, E. Arnot Robinson, "one is never quite sure whether one will get the ex-Coldstream Guards' officer . . . who has a disconcerting habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the unbuttoned half-Dutch ex-farmer from Africa will turn up, liable to be reminded, by the look of the fat lady on his left, of a post mortem he did on a cow." Matter-of-fact, 40-year-old, amiably bi-natured. Novelist Cloete has been both. Enlisting...