The D.S.O. was awarded last week to a legend. In flesh the legend is Major John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the Arab Legion in Trans-Jordan.
Small, shy, stooped like a tired schoolmaster, Glubb Bey (his Arab title) graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to...
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