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1. It had been founded as an irregular unit for service in the Western Desert by Colonel David Stirling, then a subaltern in the Scots Guards.
2. The hero of Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-;61), again, is virtuously gauche; so is Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim in 1954, a comic hero usually as polite in aspiration as he is socially incompetent in practice; and so, it must be imagined, was the young Betjeman who, as he revealed in "A Subaltern's Love-song in New Bats in Old Belfries (1945), adored girls too strong for their fainting admirers, whether at love or tennis:
3. Idealism, and the quest for action, drove him to change regiments and branches of the service, and so lose chances of promotion beyond the rank of subaltern.
4. Sometimes the derivative models achieved success through a particular artist holding on to their subaltern guitar long after they'd made it.
5. I also remember meeting Johnnie Cooper, then a subaltern, but a long serving ex-N.C.O. who had been probably the first man recruited to the infant regiment by David Stirling.
6. Panmure's constituent concluded that "subaltern commissions would fall much in their price.
7. Looking back upon that exit, I am reminded of a particularly nasty afternoon forty-two years ago, when as a young subaltern cowering in a ditch, the sole survivor of a shattered Churchill tank crawled from his steel tomb and offered me a cigarette.
8. Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle.
9. A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements, not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government's priority services strategy.
10. I remember this very handsome young subaltern I was dancing with"
11. I still remember that day in the war when, as a very junior subaltern, my CO left me a little hand-written note admonishing me for appearing at breakfast unshaven.
12. In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all, and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety, like Betjeman's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court: his palms moist at the first handshake, one imagines, his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties, and an overdeveloped sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment.
13. This "leadership", however, is not that of a gallant subaltern, charging the machine guns while his platoon has a smoke in the dug-out.