Alastair Pearson

Alastair Pearson

Brigadier Alastair Stevenson Pearson CB, DSO & Three Bars, OBE, MC, TD (1915 – 1995) was a baker, farmer and one of the most highly-regarded soldiers of the British Army who served in World War II. During his distinguished military career, he was known as Jock Pearson to the men of his command.

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    The newly-formed clothing unions are ready to welcome her; but woman shrinks back from organization, Heaven knows why! It is perhaps because in organization one find the truest freedom, and woman has been a slave too long to know what freedom means.
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