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Lionel Charles Dunsterville
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Lionel Dunsterville.
Early life
Lionel Charles Dunsterville was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on 9 November 1865, the son of Lieutenant General Lionel D'Arcy Dunsterville (1830–1912) of the Indian Army and his wife, Susan Ellen (1835–1875). He went to school with Rudyard Kipling and George Charles Beresford at the United Services College in North Devon. The school prepared boys for careers as officers in the armed services. He served as the inspiration for the character "Stalky" in Kipling's collection of school stories Stalky & Co.. He was also uncle to H. D. Harvey-Kelly, the first Royal Flying Corps pilot to land in France during the First World War.