Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a Purpose. Kenneth Anderson brings to the First Army a cosmopolitan 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...
Reticent Man. The First's commander, Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, is a formal, frugal, unglamorous Scot who has been somewhat eclipsed for the outside public by the brilliant commanders above and around him in Tunisia, and for his own troops by his brilliant juniors within the First Army. He speaks fluent French, and his French subordinates like his Scottish mentality...
...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...
...want to start a fight in a British pub, just step up to the bar, next to a Scot of the Gordon Highlanders, and ask the barmaid for a half pint of broken squares.* A similar but more up-to-date casus belli might be to ask a seaman off H.M.S. Churchill about the Battle of Lasola Island...
...Nicholas Chester Gilles Frederick Wellman Flickinger Edward Perry Harding Wallace Joseph Flynn Dean McDonald Hennessy Robert Crittenden Green Colin Franklin Newell Irving Allen Wilkinson Greer Charles Mellish Kidner Harlan Philip Hanson James Edmund McNulty, Jr. Robert Mayes Hart Richard Watson Mechem Stephen Bradshaw Ives, Jr. Sedgwick Minot, Jr. Russell Scot Leavitt Maurice Machado Osborne, Jr. Paul Latshaw Miller Francis Parkman, Jr. Frank Hoyt Powell Paul Franklin Perkins, Jr. Joseph Loomis Ray, Jr. Albert Clinton Petite Robert E. Lee Rochelle Donald Westgate Richards John Edward Sonneland Armand Schwab, Jr. Donald Theodore Trautman Sidney Oslin Smith, Jr. Edus Houston Warren, Jr. Robert...