At the Battle of Knightsbridge he sustained a severe head wound that resulted in blackouts, which he later joked made him perfect material for a job in intelligence.Īfter a period of convalescence he became the unofficial liaison officer between Winston Churchill and both Glubb Pasha and General Paget. Later, his commanding officer Brigadier Carr recorded in dispatches that Robin Maugham had saved the lives of perhaps 40 men by pulling them from destroyed tanks. When the Second World War looked inevitable, he declined a commission in the Hussars and instead joined up as an ordinary trooper in the 4th County of London Yeomanry tank regiment bound for North Africa.
He also responded against his elite background, turning socialist as a reaction to the spread of fascism in 1930s Europe. But although he qualified as a barrister, he realised that his real calling was to follow his uncle, W. Educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was expected to follow his father and grandfather into the law. Maugham was the son of Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, and Helen Romer.
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