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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment officers, Gloucestershire Regiment officers, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Stephen Saunders, Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, James Carne, Dudley John Beaumont, Charles Peter Allen, Frank Kingsley Griffith, Philip Curtis, Robert Bray, Colin Coote, Gilbert Collett, Robert Kingscote, Ryan Grist, Terence Clarke, Manley Angell James, Godfrey Firbank, Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst, David Vaisey, Evelyn King, Sydney Ernest Smith, Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall, Arthur Estcourt, Harold E. Lambert, Thomas Tannatt Pryce, John Waters, Benjamin Bathurst, George Davies, Daniel Burges, Hardy Falconer Parsons, Thomas Sharpe, Sir Henry Webb, 1st Baronet, F. W. Harvey, Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson, Austin Lane Poole, Douglas Carnegie, Stafford Somerfield. Excerpt: General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC ( - ) was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957. Ismay was born in India in 1887, but educated in the United Kingdom at the Charterhouse School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After Sandhurst, he joined the Indian Army as an officer of the 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry. During the First World War, he served with the Camel Corps in Somaliland, where he joined in the British fight against the "Mad Mullah," Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. In 1925, Ismay became an Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence. After being promoted to the rank of colonel, he served as the military secretary for Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy of India, then returned to the Committee of Imperial Defence as Deputy Secretary in 1936. On 1 August 1938, shortly before the outb...
