Charles Arnold-Baker was the author of the Companion to British History.
19 Facts About Charles Arnold-Baker
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Charles Arnold-Baker was awarded an OBE and the King Haakon VII Medal of Freedom.
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Charles Arnold-Baker was the son of Professor Baron Albrecht Werner von Blumenthal, of Gross Schloenwitz by Stolp, Pomerania, by his first wife, an English lady, Wilhelmine, nee Hainsworth, and stepson of Percival Richard Arnold-Baker.
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Charles Arnold-Baker's ashes were interred in the triforium of the Temple Church, London.
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Wolfgang Charles Werner was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Charles Arnold-Baker's recruitment was deferred by the authorities to the following year to enable him to complete his degree.
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Charles Arnold-Baker joined the Buffs as a private soldier, but was promoted to corporal within 10 days and commissioned directly on 25 February 1941.
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Charles Arnold-Baker then commanded one of two platoons of the 70th Battalion which were guarding Chartwell during Churchill's recuperation from illness there for three months.
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Charles Arnold-Baker was one of the first to voice suspicions about Philby.
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Charles Arnold-Baker took part in the liberation of Belgium, where one of his first duties was to take over Breendonk Concentration Camp, a poignant experience for a German.
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Charles Arnold-Baker then took part in the liberation of Norway, where he captured the complete Gestapo archive which enabled him to arrest fugitive Nazis, including Karl Fritzsch, the Deputy Commandant of Auschwitz.
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Charles Arnold-Baker arrested senior German military figures.
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Charles Arnold-Baker took the view that as the war was now practically over, it was important to gather as much intelligence about the Soviet army, since this was plainly the new threat.
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Charles Arnold-Baker received the Gwylim Gibbons Award from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1959.
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Charles Arnold-Baker developed strong relations with the Women's Institute and was for many years one of the very few men invited to their AGM.
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Charles Arnold-Baker was an early advocate of the use of solar power, as developed by his friend Admiral Plunkett.
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Charles Arnold-Baker completed a further edition of his Companion to British History published by Loncross Denholm Press.
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Many quotes and points from the seventh edition of Local Council Administration, written by Charles Arnold-Baker, were used at the start of each of the seven parts of JK Rowling's hugely successful first book for adults, The Casual Vacancy.
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Charles Arnold-Baker married in Kensington, London, on 2 January 1943 to Edith May, nee Woods.