Early Career
He joined the British Army in 1938 and was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment. He was with the 2nd Battalion of this regiment in Palestine and the Western Desert from 1939 to July 1941 when he joined the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG).
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