The investigations began when a student was questioned about an unrelated incident and told brigade officers that instructors were dating students, a violation of the Army's fraternization policy.

Senior brigade officers seldom command for more than 12 months, a fact that encourages them to enrich themselves quickly.

In early August George Erskine the division's commander, the armoured brigade commanding officer, Hinde and up to 100 other officers were removed from their positions and reassigned.

The punishment was handed out by Col. Alan A. Fox, a brigade tactical officer at the Academy.

In 1944 he sent Kathanong Souvannakhily, a brigade officer, to attack Thailand, but he went missing in action.

He heard the cheers and, in the silver moonlight, framed in the lens of his telescope, he saw the brigade officers cluster around Colonel Gudin.

He said, "we have lost one brigade officer, one battalion officer and the rest are volunteers, or as they say in the British Army, privates".

The German brigade officers were already spurring down the road towards Sharpe.

Almost immediately, they came under heavy fire from a pillbox close by a railway embankment, at which time Major J.B. Buchanan, the senior brigade officer with the advance party, fell dead, leaving Jeffries to assume control.

The brigade commanding officer and eighty men were landed near Fayence, as were the 5th (Scottish) Battalion's commanding officer, with half of battalion headquarters, 'C' Company, and 'D' Company.