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== Early life and education == {{More citations needed section|date=April 2021}} Soames was born in [[Penn, Buckinghamshire]], England, the son of Captain [[Arthur Granville Soames]] (the brother of [[Olave Baden-Powell]], World Chief Guide, both descendants of a brewing family who had joined the [[landed gentry]]) by his marriage to Hope Mary Woodbine Parish.<ref name = ODNB/> His parents divorced while he was a boy, and his mother married her second husband<!-- In 1934. --> [[Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor|Charles Rhys]] (later <!-- From 1956. -->8th [[Baron Dynevor]]), by whom she had further children including [[Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor]]. Soames was educated at [[West Downs School]], [[Eton College]], and the [[RMC Sandhurst|Royal Military College]] at Sandhurst.<ref name="janus">{{cite web|title=The Papers of Baron Soames|url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1845|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004225257/https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1845 |archive-date=4 October 2021 |access-date=10 November 2014|publisher=Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge}}</ref> He obtained a [[Commission (document)|commission]] as an officer in the [[Coldstream Guards]] just before [[World War II]] broke out. During the war, he served in France, Italy, and North Africa and was awarded the French [[Croix de Guerre]] for his actions at the [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] in 1942.<ref>{{cite news |title=Britain's Man for Rhodesia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9koAQAAMAAJ&q=%22christopher%20soames%22%20 |access-date=16 June 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=13 December 1979 |archive-date=8 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108141504/https://www.google.com/books/edition/AF_Press_Clips/e9koAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22christopher+soames%22+ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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