Ex-Commando officer and member of Montgomery's personal liaison team ( he won an immediate MC during Market-Garden ) David Carol Mather died recently.
He entered Parliament after the war and obituaries remembered the occasion when Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd arrived at the House of Commons sporting a long, German/Austrian style overcoat. Mather turned to the person next to him :
'The last time I saw a chap wearing a coat like that...' he said, '....
I shot him !'
