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...Last Christmas the 21st Infantry Regiment raised $2,347 to provide parties and presents for 996 orphans and 16 families...
...joined General Weygand in North Africa, but soon returned to France and went underground. By 1943 he was running the intelligence service of the "French Army Resistance Organization." When the U.S. forces landed in southern France, Navarre joined them, fought in the liberation of France, later led a regiment of mounted Spahis in De Lattre's Rhin et Danube army. He was seven times cited for bravery, wears the Croix de Guerre and Resistance Medal with rosette. Since then he has commanded a French armored division and been deputy commander in chief of the French occupation forces in Germany...
That evening Churchill went off to attend a St. George's Day dinner with the Honorable Artillery Company, oldest serving British regiment. He told the gunners what would happen if St. George (about 300 A.D.) were alive today: "St. George would arrive in Cappadocia accompanied, not by a horse, but by a secretariat. He would be armed, not by a lance, but by several flexible formulas . . . He would propose a conference with the dragon. He would then lend the dragon a lot of money. The maiden's release would be referred to Geneva or New York, the dragon...
...Bade farewell to his old friend and wartime comrade, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, after telling Monty that his regiment, the Royal Warwickshire, had burned the White House...
...wrong. The British force which captured Washington included no Warwickshires. The Warwickshire Regiment was more than 500 miles away in Toronto (then York), had recently participated in the Peninsular War, leaving many wounded and sick troops in Bordeaux...