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Educated at at the time) were injured. Ewart-Biggs was a soldier; in the WWII Battle Of El Alamein in 1942 he lost his right eye, the artificial copy of which he wore a smoked-glass Monocle over. Also, as a British consul in Algiers in 1961 (before the French withdrawal), he had been a potential target for assassination by diehard French colonialists. Thirteen suspected members of the IRA were picked up during raids as the governments hunted the killers down. The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize was founded in his honour. |
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