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Huntly Gordon


Born
in Perthshire, Scotland, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1898

Died
January 01, 1982

Genre
Memoir, Nonfiction


HUNTLY STRATHEARN GORDON was born in a Perthshire in 1898. He was educated at Clifton College and joined the Royal Field Artillery in 1916. By June 1917, aged just 19, he was on the Western Front. Though badly wounded (he was declared 25% disabled), he survived the war, confounding the army medics by playing rugby again and taking up medicine. He gave up his studies -- having 'seen too many people die' -- and took a job with Shell Oil in 1923, who sent him to China. Three years later, he was forced to flee as the communist insurgency raged. Back in the UK, he joined London Transport, while devoting his spare time to working with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and surveying archaeological sites in England and France. During the Blitz, he initiated the ...more

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