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...Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...First Army has none of the veteran arrogance of the mighty Eighth. The First as it now exists is young. It was reorganized, equipped and trained specifically for the North African job. Some of its units are ancient and honorable: such regiments as the Coldstream Guards, the Grenadier Guards, the Lancashire Fusiliers; but in experience as a single machine fighting the enemy, the First is only as old as the Battle of Tunisia...
...Rommel was not much better off than the Italians this week. British southern units cutting northwest from the desert oases apparently blocked his exit to Tripolitania. A force of Coldstream Guards, Royal Armoured Corps and South African armored cars moved southward from Bengasi to close the pincer...
Married. Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, 20, sixth and youngest of the beauteous daughters of ex-Appeaser Lord Redesdale; and Lord Andrew Cavendish, 20, Coldstream Guardsman, second son of the Duke of Devonshire; in London. Sister Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, appearing publicly for the first time since she returned last year from a visit to Germany with mysterious bullet wounds in her neck (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940), attended-by a side door...
Lieut, the Hon. Evelyn Boscawen. heir to Viscount Falmouth and not long out of Cambridge, died as a Coldstream Guardsman in Flanders. Lieut. Sir Marmaduke Charles Henry Joseph Casimir Blenner-hasset was killed while serving as a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, leaving a nine-day-old successor to his baronetcy...