Editing Anthony Burgess (section)

=== Military service ===
Burgess spent six weeks in 1940 as a [[British Army]] recruit in [[Eskbank]] before becoming a Nursing Orderly Class 3 in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]]. During his service, he was unpopular and was involved in incidents such as knocking off a corporal's cap and polishing the floor of a corridor to make people slip.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=113}}.</ref> In 1941, Burgess was pursued by the [[Royal Military Police]] for desertion after overstaying his leave from [[Morpeth, Northumberland|Morpeth]] military base with his future bride Lynne. The following year he asked to be transferred to the [[Army Educational Corps]] and, despite his loathing of authority, he was promoted to sergeant.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=117}}.</ref> During the [[blackout (wartime)|blackout]], his pregnant wife Lynne was raped and assaulted by four American deserters; perhaps as a result, she lost the child.<ref name="Oxfordbiog" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/10/biography.anthonyburgess|location=London, UK|work=The Guardian|first=Nigel|last=Williams|title=Not like clockwork|date=10 November 2002}}</ref> Burgess, stationed at the time in [[Gibraltar]], was denied leave to see her.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|pp=107, 128}}.</ref>

At his stationing in Gibraltar, which he later wrote about in ''[[A Vision of Battlements]]'', he worked as a training college lecturer in speech and drama, teaching alongside Ann McGlinn in [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} McGlinn's [[communist]] ideology would have a major influence on his later novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. Burgess played a key role in "[[The British Way and Purpose]]" programme, designed to introduce members of the forces to the [[Post-war consensus|peacetime socialism]] of the [[Postwar Britain (1945–1979)|post-war years]] in Britain.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n03/colin-burrow/not-quite-nasty |title=Not Quite Nasty |author=Colin Burrow | date=9 February 2006 |magazine=London Review of Books |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref> He was an instructor for the Central Advisory Council for Forces Education of the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]].<ref name="Oxfordbiog" /> Burgess's flair for languages was noticed by [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|army intelligence]], and he took part in debriefings of Dutch expatriates and [[Free French]] who found refuge in Gibraltar during the war. In the neighbouring [[Francoist Spain|Spanish]] town of [[La Línea de la Concepción]], he was arrested for insulting [[General Franco]] but released from custody shortly after the incident.<ref>{{Harvnb|Biswell|2006}}.</ref>