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Monty's father, an Anglican bishop, was a North of Ireland man, but Monty himself was born Nov. 17, 1887 in south London. He spent his early boyhood in Tasmania, went to Saint Paul's, one of the lesser-known English public schools, thence to Sandhurst...
Harold went to Harrow and Sandhurst (Britain's West Point), became a dashing young blade, an indifferent student, a topflight track athlete. In 1914, he won the Irish mile (6,721 ft.) in 4 min. 33 sec. He chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...
...ponderous Victorian interior-dark red wallpaper and funereal furniture-is still lit and heated by gas. Among the 20,000 rack-brained heads that have bent over their notebooks in Jimmy's gaslight was Winston Churchill's. In 1893 he "swotted" at Jimmy's for Sandhurst. The headmaster said that Churchill was "able enough, but his mind strayed to other interests, was brilliant at history but sluggish in mathematics and science." The French master wanted Churchill thrown out. But he stayed on and passed his examinations. Other celebrated alumni of Jimmy's include two living British...
...went out to fight the Boers. He ended that campaign a lieutenant, with two medals, and decided to stay in the army. His rise .was gradual and unspectacular until after World War I, in which he won the D.S.O. and promotion to lieutenant colonel. Later he lectured at Sandhurst and the Staff College. Several times it seemed that he might be hurting his career by sticking to infantry commands, but a real break came in 1934, when he took over the Aldershot Brigade, first fully mechanized brigade in the British Army...
...point of view which it needs-fighting as it is with French and Americans against Germans and Italians on French, and perhaps eventually Italian, soil. His background is broad. He is a Scot. He was born in India on Christmas, 1891. He was educated in England at Charterhouse and Sandhurst. He fought in France, Syria and Palestine in World War I. Between wars he traveled widely in the Middle East, from Tibet to the Mediterranean. He has spoken French since boyhood and has a good working knowledge of Italian...