Early Life
Cloete was born in Paris, France to a French mother and South African father. He was educated at Lancing College, a school which at present gives out a yearly prize in his honour to a student who excels in literature and creative writing. At Lancing College he joined the OTC and at 17 years took the Sandhurst exam and was commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant at the beginning of World War One in 1914. He was Gazetted to the Ninth King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before later transferring to the Coldstream Guards. He was wounded in August 1916 and three days later arrived in London to be nursed at Sister Agnes’s – Edward the Seventh Hospital King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes at 9 Grosvenor Gardens. Later convalescing in Hove Sussex.
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