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Warrender was the son of Sir George Warrender, 6th Baronet and Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, born at Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh, one of six children. Warrender joined the navy as a cadet in 1873 at Dartmouth. [1] He qualified as a French interpreter in 1878. [1] He served in the Zulu War in 1879 as midshipman on the corvette HMS Boadicea. [1]
The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1960. Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, daughter of the seventh baronet, married Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet and was the mother of Vice-Admiral Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet and grandmother of Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield.
Baron Bruntisfield, of Boroughmuir in the City of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created in 1942 for the Scottish Conservative politician and former Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet.
The predecessor of Seventh Army was the I Armored Corps, which was activated on 15 July 1940 at Fort Knox, Kentucky.With the goal of stopping German expansion in Europe and Africa, it was decided that the first operation for United States Army forces would be to assist the British in driving German forces from North Africa.
Warrender was the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet, by Lady Ethel Maud Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury. [1] He was baptised with Queen Victoria as one of his godparents and was educated at Eton. His younger brother was the actor Harold Warrender.
An order of battle is not necessarily a set structure, and it can change depending on tactical or strategic developments, or the evolution of military doctrine. For example, a division could be altered radically from one campaign to another through the adding or removing of subunits but retain its identity and prior history.
7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel D.E.B. Talbot; 214th Infantry Brigade Brigadier Hubert Essame. 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel R.E. Osborne-Smith; 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel George Taylor; 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel R.E ...
Historically, an order of battle was the order in which troops were positioned relative to the position of the army commander or the chronological order in which ships were deployed in naval situations. As combat operations develop during a campaign, orders of battle may be revised and altered in response to the military needs and challenges.