OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 307, 16 September 1918, Page 6

OBITUARY

!■" FIBLD-MAESHAL SIR WILLIAM L "■'",' NICHOLSON. ! ' (Bee. September 15, 5.5 p.m.) ;■'.'," -.''.'',.'. London, September 14. | V ■'. Field-Marshal .Sir "William Nicbokon i is dead.—Aus.-N.Z'.' Cable Assn. j „.,. [Field-MarshalSir William Gustavus I :. : Nicholson was .horn in 1845, and enteri " e'd the RoyalfEngineers in 1865'- -He [.'.' served in the Afghan War of 1873-30 I and the Egyptian \Var ; of 1882, and was ! Chief of- Staff : in the Tirah Expeditionj ■ nry Force ih\lß9r-98..H0 was Adjutant(General iu India in 1898-99, and served ! : , iii South'"Africa as Military Secretary j ;to, thi> Ooihmauder-inrGhief and Dircc- | itor of Transport at Headquarters in ; -■' ■ 1899-1900.•; From 1901 to 1904 he was | 'Director-General of Mobilisation .wd i ~ Military Intelligence, and the following j .-■' year was Chief British Military Attacho i to tho Japanese Army. He was Quarj '. termO/Ster-General of the Forcos and i -. third military member of the Army j ;;ocnuioil from 1905 to 1907, and was ■Chief of General Staff and first mili- | '•■' ■ tary member of the Army Council from ! ,1908 to 1912. He was ohairman of the "on Indian; Army expondi-. j; ' .tore in. 1912-18.1 I '"" JUSTICE Sill iAMTJEL EVANS. : (Hoc. September 15, 5.5 p.m.) ! , London, September 13. Justice Sir Samuel Evans, president \ ; :; ■ of'tho Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty ••' " Courts, is dead.—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable A r > SU! ! ••"■ [Sir Samuel Evans, who whs iorn in ' '.'■' 1859, was the last Queen's Counsel, ap-' !' pointed in 1901. He was Solieitor- !' ".... General 'from 1908 to'■ 1910, and in the 1 ..Matter year was appointed President of the. Probate, Divorce, and .Admiralty !■■ ;•••/■ 00nrt5.1........