 Complete the following phrase:  Too young for military service at the outbreak of the Second World War, Boscawen went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mechanical science and took the special army engineering course. In 1941, he joined the Royal Engineers. However, on 4 September 1942, he was commissioned as a second lieutet into the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards with which members of his family had served since 1769, including his brothers George and Evelyn, who had been killed during 