Lieutenant-Colonel Geordie Andrews
2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders

We saw each other at the same moment and, thinking it wise to seize the initiative, I let fly at him with my new Walther. Needless to say, I missed him. I was not too sorry, as I bore the fellow no particular malice—at least I had joined that surprisingly small circle of officers who had actually fired their pistols in anger.

(Quoted in Andrew Todd, The Elephant at War, 102)

Born in Cockermouth, Cumberland on 1 July 1910, George Lewis Williams Andrews was a graduate of Haileybury College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders in 1929, and served with the 1st Battalion in Palestine in the 1930s. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he served on staff with 17th Infantry Brigade headquarters and completed staff college.

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