Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Brind
5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment

The swinging brigadier now likes music from Burt Bacharach to the Beatles and composes most of his material on his electronic organ. Ask if spreading the message of peace was compatible with his life as a soldier, the brigadier replied: “The Army is there to keep the peace and to keep the peace one has to love everybody.”

(Evening Post, 29 Aug 1972, 5)

Born on 29 August 1909 in Mettingham, Suffolk, James Lindsay Brind was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry after graduating from RMC, Sandhurst in 1928. He served with the 1st Battalion in India where his father Sir John Edward Spencer Brind (1878–1954) had been  deputy chief of the general army staff at Army. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1940.

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