PALESTINE FORCES.
CHANGE IN CONTROL. (British Official IVireless.) RUGBY, July 28. The War Office announces MajorGeneral A. P. Wavell has been appointed General Officer Commanding the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan in succession to Lieut.General J. C. Dill. Major-General Wavell is to take up his appointment about the end of August. Major-General Waved lias commanded tbe Second Division of the Aldershot Command since 1935. He was educated at Winchester and 1 lie Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1901 he was appointed to the Black Watch and m the South African War was decorated with a medal and four clasps. For bravery on the Indian frontier in 1903 be was again decorated. He served in France -in the Great War, and in October, 1916, was appointed military attache with the Russian army in the Caucasus. He was appointed majorgeneral in 1933, and from 1932 to 1963 was A.D.C. to the King.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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151PALESTINE FORCES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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