Edward PereiraEducated at Downside near Radstock, Somerset, Edward Pereira was born in London in August of 1938, after which, in the company of his mother, he joined his father, George Pereira, who was serving with the British army in Palestine. When war broke outin September 1939, George was serving with 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards in North Africa whilst Edward and his mother resided in Alexandria. Eith Egypt under threat of Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the summer of 1941, Edward and his mother were amongst the women and children evacuated to South Africa. Reunited with his wounded father there 18 months later, the family sailed from Capetown for Liverpool in late September 1943. Edward was commissioned in 1957, after which he served in Germany, with the Guard's Training Battalion at Pirbright, Surrey and the 2nd Coldstream Guards in Kenya and Zanzibar during 1958-59. It was during this time that he travelled to Salisbury in Rhodesia and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro amongst other African excursions. On returning to Great Britain, his company was assigned to the 1st Coldstream Guards in 1962 in order to increase battalion numbers prior to a nine-month deployment to British Guyana. Thus the Coldstream Guards were the first Household battalion to serve on the South American mainland. Having left the army in October 1964, Edward worked as an IBM and Rank Xerox executive respectively prior to retirement in 1994. Read More Read Less