Calvert had recently served in the 5th Battalion, Scots Guards, which had been formed to fight as a ski-troop in Finland.
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Fleming came from a famous banking family and was the elder brother of Ian Fleming.
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During the Second World War Major Lord Ashley served as a British Intelligence Officer with the Auxiliary Units, which were highly covert Resistance groups trained to engage and counteract the expected invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany.
According to Holder, the regiment was transferred to Britain immediately after it was recruited, in accordance with a general imperial policy of deploying auxiliary units from recently conquered (or pacified) regions to other parts of the Empire in order to assure their loyalty (e.g. 7 British regiments, raised during the Flavian period (71-96), are attested as deployed in Dacia in the reign of Hadrian).
He subdued the Silures and other tribes of Wales hostile to Roman invasion, establishing a new base at Caerleon or Isca Augusta for Legio II Augusta and a network of smaller forts fifteen to twenty kilometres apart for his auxiliary units.