Pierre Jeanneret in the Swiss Army from 1916 to 1918. In 1922, the Jeanneret cousins set up an architectural practice together. They designed many buildings, including a number of villas and vacation houses, and renovated existing buildings as well. Their working relationship ended when Pierre joined the French Resistance and Le Corbusier did not. However, they collaborated once again after the War, on the plan and architecture for the city of Chandigarh in India. Jeanneret, in collaboration with the English husband-wife team of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, was responsible for much of Chandigarh's large civic architecture project. His most remarkable contribution
Gris Davies-Scourfield Gris Davies-Scourfield Brigadier Edward Grismond Beaumont 'Gris' Davies-Scourfield was a British Army officer who became a Prisoner of War and escaped from Stalag XXI-D and Colditz Castle during the Second World War. Gris Davies-Scourfield was born in Patching, Sussex on 8 August 1918, He was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst where he was awarded the King's Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles 25 August 1938. He served in England until the outbreak of World War II where he was sent to France as a platoon commander participating in the defence