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This evening we crossed another canal-the Wessem in the Roermond area. A Scottish regiment made the crossing, and they made it "without fuss or bother, with a calmness that comes from lots of experience. The show started at 4 p.m.-dusk here - with a 400-gun barrage which lasted 15 minutes. They fired high-explosive shells for the first twelve minutes, and then finished off with smoke, to blind the enemy. Under cover of the smoke, the troops made their assault...
...said: "Waittiers are thinkers . . . and from groups of whittlers come the trickles of sentiment and conviction which merge at last to form the broad stream of public opinion." In the evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking his favorite ejaculation: "By the great horn spoon...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, commander of the British ground forces in Europe, reached up and added a bar to the D.S.O. of Major General Colin Muir Barber, leader of the 18th (Scottish) Division and tallest British Army General...
...Lord Lyell, 30, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valor in North Africa last year. Lord Lyell lived as a Scottish laird, died in a bayonet grapple inside a German gun pit. He was the first peer to win Britain's highest award in World War II, the fifth ever...
Taking issue with his colleagues, Reuters' dry, Scottish John Gibbons declared: "I disagree very sharply with what Mr. Winterton said. I definitely do not feel that the work of Soviet war correspondents has been bad. . . . They have been to Leningrad and Stalingrad. . . . Even if they were the most incompetent nincompoops in the world they would write stirring articles about those things...