Marine hazing (bullying)

[Peter Pedant]

Can anyone tell me if:

it was Oswald Mosley who always walked with a limp because he had been thrown out of a bed room window by Orde Wingate when they were at Sandhurst in the thirties

or was it the other way round ?

[WaldoMcFroog]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley Mosley had a limp, but it was caused by an aeroplane crash.

[Tatty Rollox]

This is a strange question. Sir Oswald Mosley lived 1896 - 1980. He graduated from Sandhurst College, served in the16th Lancers and the Royal Flying Corps during WW 1 and was injured which caused the limp. At the age of 22 in 1918 he was elected to Parliament. He went on to found the British Union of Fascists in 1932, which by 1934 had more than 50000 card carrying members and attracted crowds of more than 100000 to its rallies in the UK. He spent most of WW2 in a London prison. There is a photograph of him here and a photograph of the flag to which so many rallied under him here . Major General Orde Wingate lived 1903 - 1944. He entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich in 1921. He spent most of WW2 on active service in the Far East region. He was killed in an air crash in the Himalayas together with several Americans.Their bodies could not be seperately identified so all of the remains were buried in a heap in one spot at the crash site. Later, under American Regulations, because the majority of dead were Americans the remains had to be disinterred and repatriated to the US. Because of this Major General Wingate is now buried in the Arlington Military Cemetery in the US. He came from a Zionist family and was himself an ardent Zionist. There is a photograph of him here .

[Tatty Rollox]

The flag which I refer to above is, I hope, here .

[Peter Pedant]

strange question and obviously not quite true....

thanks.

I dont know where I got the idea from - an article on rough housing at Sandhurst in the early part of the last century I suppose.

Wingate was apparently bullied at school -the other children [boys] went on 'wingate-hunts' and I read it continued at Sandhurst, by a certain OM [or the other way round]

Clearly I have a vivid imagination which I er will try to control.

thanks anyway