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...Alexander, Dill, Alanbrooke, Auchinleck. It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier. His father, a dedicated officer in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, had some discussion with his mother about what to call the child, but there was no discussion about his career: it was Wellington, Sandhurst, and the army. Says his mother, now in her 80s : "He always wanted to be a soldier, and I did my best to make...
...Ismay was born in India, and raised to be a soldier. After Sandhurst, he served in the Punjab, and in World War I successfully led a camel corps in Somaliland against the fanatical forces of the "Mad Mullah" Mohammed Ibn Abdullah. Churchill first saw and admired Ismay during England's near-revolutionary general strike in 1926. Ismay, then on the Imperial Defense Committee, called out the territorial army to help put the strike down. Churchill signaled him to his side when he became Prime Minister...
...politics"), a passable amateur oil painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
Finally, after two failures at examinations, he got into the military college at Sandhurst. He passed out proudly, eighth in a class of 150. Sent to Bangalore, in southern India, Churchill became a brilliant polo player, and discovered books-Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay, Schopenhauer; he made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that...
Handsome Captain Roy Alexander Farran had often been close to death. The son of an Irishman who had served in India. he went to Sandhurst and became one of the heroes of World War II. He fought with Wavell in the desert, went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked...