In 1941, he joined the Royal Engineers, but the following year was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards (with which members of his family had served since 1769, including his brothers George and Evelyn, who had been killed during the withdrawal from Dunkirk) of the Guards Armoured Division and was sent to the cavalry wing of Sandhurst to train as a tank commander.
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