Eric Dorman-Smith
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Brigadier Eric Edward "Chink" Dorman-Smith, MC, who later changed his name to Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan, was an Irish officer whose career in the British Army began in the First World War and closed
Eric Dorman-Smith (left) talking with General Sir Alan Brooke at El Alamein, Egypt, August 1942.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo
Eric Dorman-Smith
…to his MC. Upon his discharge from hospital he was appointed Commandant of the British Troops and sent to Milan. In Milan on 3 November 1918, he met Ernest Hemingway, who had been wounded at the Italian front and decorated with the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery while serving with the Red Cross. He was posted to…
Hemingway in late 1939
Ernest Hemingway Boyhood Home, Oak Park, Illinois
Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace.
Hemingway as 1st Lt. (A.R.C.), in late 1918; note the medal ribbons on his chest and the two rank stripes above the cuffs