He records being made an acting L/Corporal and, I think then , acting Corporal. He does record on 15/09/1919 ".Walk up the Strand to the Club - subscribe my name to the list of Artists Rifles Special Constabulary. PC Alexander ! a new role of absurdity." Given his left leaning politics I'm very surprised at this. He did tell me that at the end of WW1 he was offered a place in the AEF to Murmansk or to become a Black & Tan in Ulster. Very sensibly he decided to upgrade himself from a bookkeeper/auditor to become a Chartered Accountant.

My father spoke fluent German - well enough to translate plays and live there during the Depression. We have always wondered if that skill was prompted by speaking Yiddish as a child or living somewhere like Galicia where I believe German was spoken

He did tell me that he was court martialed for allowing his rifle to rust whilst in hospital !

Harris Alexander ended up in England by accident. Harris thought he was getting on a ship for America, but because of his lack of English at the time he did not understand that the ship he was boarding was going to London
instead

He was elected a member of the Savage Club because of his theatre works. He helped found the Theatre Royal, Windsor

He was articled to a member of the Irish Chartered Accountants Institute. He once told me that there was a problem about where he sat his finals because of The Troubles.