Eric "Chink" Dorman-Smith, during
World War II, was a Commandant of the
Middle East Staff College[?] who, by December
1940, was sent as an adviser to
Major-General O'Connor and the
Western Desert Force. Dorman-Smith is credited with planning
Operation Compass and with the discovery of a gap in the
Italian lines south of
Sidi Barrani. He was a
godfather[?] to one of
Ernest Hemingway's sons and "a practiced seducer of other men's wives" (
1 - p.47[?]).