 Complete the following phrase:  Alexander Williams was born on 8 June 1910 in Herringston House, Dorchester, Dorset, England, the son of Captain B. C. W. Williams, a British Army officer, and Hon. Mrs Winifred Mary Williams, the elder daughter of the second Lord Addington. He was educated at Eton College before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned as a second lieutet into the Kings Royal Rifle Corps KRRC on 28 August 1930. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion, KRRC, then serving in Tidworth, Wiltshire, before the battalion moved in 1932 to Northern Ireland. Promoted to lieutet on 28 August 1933, the 2nd KRRC returned to England in 1935. Williams, along with the battalion, now commanded by Lieutet Colonel Evelyn Barker, was sent to Palestine in 1936, following the outbreak of the 