MONK AND SOLDIER
HONOUR FROIVI KING : _, * A Benedictine monk who was for r merly an officer in the. Grenadier Guards, went to Buckingham Palace on July 11 to receive the military M.B.fc. from the King. • .- ■-■. _.•■„,.,,' His name appeared in the Birthday Honours list as Major lan George David Alastair Forbes, but he is now known as Dom George Forbes. O-5.8... housemaster of the junior house of Ampleforth College. Yorkshire. Although it is sixteen years since he entered the order as a novice. Father Forbes has kept up his military associations. He commands the college O.T.C. He was educated at Ampleforth and trained at the Royal Military College Sandhurst. After two years as an officer,in the Guards, he became a monk, arid later went to Oxford as an undergraduate, studied mathematics-at St. Beriet'l Hall, and three years ago took the de» gree of M.A,' .*'..:'•...■"■,■', ..v.---;;
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 14
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