Calder & Mr. Behrens The Lion and the Virgin Mr. Calder first met Colonel Garnet in 1942 in the Western Desert. The colonel, who had commanded an Armoured Regiment with such dash that it had lost most of its tanks, was doing a stand-in job as GSO2 at Corps. He had acquired the reputation of turning up more often at the dangerous end than was usual with staff officers. Nevertheless it did surprise Mr. Calder to see him at that particular time and place; seeing that the Infantry Regiment to which he was attached was about to do one of the things which infantry regiments dislike greatly. It was due, in five minutes’ time, to advance over a stretch of open desert which was certainly registered by enemy mortars and was probably full of anti-personnel mines. Colonel Garnet had engaged Captain Calder in a learned discussion on modern theories of artillery support, whilst Captain Calder kept an anxious eye on his watch. When the whistle blew, and he climbed cautiously out of the line of slit trenches, he was staggered to observe that the colonel was climbing out with him.
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