This caused a small scandal at the time.Īfter Staff College he first served as Brigade Major in 114th Indian Infantry Brigade before being "poached" by "Joe" Lentaigne, another officer from 4th Gurkhas, to be Brigade Major in 111th Indian Infantry Brigade, a Chindit formation. Here he met the wife of a fellow officer and began an affair. In early 1942, he attended the Indian Army Staff College at Quetta. Masters subsequently served in Iraq, Syria and Persia. He saw service on the North-West Frontier with the 2nd battalion of the regiment, and was rapidly given a variety of appointments within the battalion and the regimental depot, becoming the Adjutant of the 2nd battalion in early 1939.ĭuring World War II his battalion was sent to Basra in Iraq, during the brief Anglo-Iraqi War. On graduating from Sandhurst in 1933, he was seconded to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) for a year before applying to serve with the 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles. He was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst. Masters was the son of a lieutenant-colonel whose family had a long tradition of service in the Indian Army.
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Mud and ashen water streaked across their faces. By the Nails of the Warpriest eBook : Korpon, Nik: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store. ‘Children climb piles of discarded furniture and chunks of collapsed building in the alley. She also writes for UK-based publications, including Grazia, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, the Mail on Sunday and The Telegraph. She has been credited as the founder and godmother of the style. She later edited Tart Noir, the anthology, with Stella Duffy. With Sparkle Hayter and Katy Munger, Henderson created Tart Noir, the website. Her experiences in the New York dating scene gave her the inspiration for the non-fiction dating book, Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating ( Hyperion Books, 2005). After eight years, she moved to Manhattan. She then moved to Tuscany to write books and learn Italian. Henderson worked as a journalist for newspapers and music magazines including the New Statesman, Marxism Today, The Observer and Lime Lizard (an independent music magazine). She then studied English Literature at Cambridge University. She attended North London Collegiate School (the model for Wakefield Hall in the Scarlett Wakefield “Kiss” series) and then St Paul’s Girls' School (the model for St Tabby’s). Lauren Henderson was born in Hampstead, London. She began writing as Rebecca Chance in 2009, and now writes novels exclusively as Rebecca Chance. Between 19 Henderson published 17 books under her own name. Her books include thrillers/ bonkbusters/ chick lit, mysteries, Tart Noir, romantic comedies, and young adult. Lauren Milne Henderson is an English freelance journalist and novelist who also writes as Rebecca Chance. North London Collegiate School, Cambridge UniversityĬhick lit, Tart Noir, mystery, young adult fiction |