Family
Dorman-Smith was born into an Anglo-Irish gentry family near Cootehill in north-east County Cavan, Ireland, and was educated at Harrow, Sandhurst and Cambridge. He served briefly in the Indian Army before being invalided out, then joined a volunteer battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
One of Dorman-Smith's two brothers, Eric, was a major-general in the British Army in the Second World War; after falling out with the British establishment, Eric he became an Irish nationalist sympathiser and changed his name to Dorman O'Gowan. His other brother, Victor, was a Royal Navy Captain.
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