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...Noel in his name is for his birthday -Christmas, 1891. He was born in India, educated at Charterhouse and Sandhurst, fought and was wounded in World War I, fought in World War II from the Saar to Dunkirk. He has a Scot's reticence which even his wife cannot penetrate...
Captain Fitzroy was an aristocrat who faithfully followed the path of an upperclass son in politics. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he entered the House as Conservative Member for South Northamptonshire in 1900. He was wounded at Ypres in 1914, elected Speaker in 1928. The Scotsman justly called him: "An impartial president over debate, the guardian of the privileges of the House, the protector of minorities, and the defender of freedom of speech." Death came at 73, in the severely blitzed 50-room Speaker's House, directly beneath...
...hero is Irish, born in County Donegal, 55 years ago. His father was a bishop of the Anglican Church, who carted Bernard off to Tasmania when he was an infant and proposed that Bernard follow in his churchly steps. Bernard preferred to be a soldier. He went to Sandhurst, served in World War I, later commanded a battalion of Royal Fusiliers during the Sinn Fein trouble. But he did not enjoy that. "It was my home and my people." At the age of 40 he married. A son, aged 13, goes to school in Hampshire...
...went to Sandhurst, which with some difficulty turned him into a cavalry subaltern. Then he went to Cuba, where he acquired a taste for cigars and siestas. He anticipated Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt's visit by two years. "Imagination falters," says Guedalla, "at the possibilities of an encounter on the same terrain...
Veteran of World War I and of the Spanish Civil War, in which he commanded the British battalion of the International Brigade, Tom Wintringham wrote and harangued against the spit-&-polish, close-order drill snobbery of Sandhurst. In a handbook called New Ways of War (TIME, Nov.11), he insisted that the only way to repel an invasion was to supplement Britain's regular forces with an army of 4,000,000 civilians trained with maximum democracy and efficiency. To this end the Home Guard Training School was organized, and Tom taught his men sniping, barricading, bombing with homemade bombs...