CORPORAL TO COLONEL
LONDON, July 19. An Englishman, Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Martin, who rose to his present rank from that of corporal within a year, is now iu charge of an important base “somewhere in Russia.” Lieutenant-Colon'd Martin won the D.C.M. at Dunkirk. .Because of his knowledge of the Russian language he was attached to a mission to Russia, and was later rapidly promoted.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 5
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