ALDERSHOT COMMAND.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 12

ALDERSHOT COMMAND.

GENERAL SIR C. HARINGTON. (noM oua own conmasrosrosKx.) LONDON, January 20. Sir Charles H. Harisgton, G. 8.8., K.C.8., D.5.0., D.C.L., has been appointed General' Officer Commandingin.Chief, Aldershot Command, in succession to General Sir David Campbell, K.CJB., Colonel, 9th Lancers, with effect from Vane 30th, 1931. Lleut.-General Sir Torquhil G. Mstheson, K.C.8,, -C.M.G., has been appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, India, in succession to General Sir Charles Harington. The appointment of Sir Charles Harington to the principal, command at Home, will be warmly welcomed in the Army (writes a correspondent of "TheTimes''), for be enjoys aa especial plaee in the affections of soldiers by reason of those qualities of command and strategic direction which marked him out to become the youngest general in the Army.. He was educated at Cheltenham, the oldest of the great Yictorian public schools, now within ten years Jof its centenary, His name was mentioned four years age for the Aldershot Command, but his comparative youth—he is not yet 50— would have made it difficult to find' suitable appointments later in hi» service had he then gone to Aldershot. In. consequence, he was posted, to India,, with a view to a Home command next winter. His name is associated with a future" selection-for Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and his succession to Aldershot, owing to the death of Lieutenant-General Sir W. Hastings Anderson, makes both appointments passible for him. Sir Torquhil G. Matheson, who sucr ceetU him at Quetta, is a, junior lieutenant-geperal, a Coldstream, Guardsman, who was the last ' commander or the Guards Division .in France, and who distinguished himself as G.O.C. of the N Waziristan Field Force from 1920, and as Chief Political Officer in that area of the North-West Frontier.