HERO OF MESSINES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 7

HERO OF MESSINES

APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF MALTA'.

London, March 16. Official.- General Plumer has been appointed Governor and ' Commander-in-Chijf of Malta, in succession to Lord Metlmen, who has-resigned—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu.-Rcuter.

[■General Sir Herbert C. O. Plumer, G.C.U.. was (Jomme.nder of the. British Second Army, to which was given the task of taking Messines and Wytschaete. Ho is over CO years of age, and joined tho York and Lancaster Regiment mora than forty-ono years ago. In 1896, then a major, ho was sent on special service to South Africa, where he raised a mounted corps, and went through the Mutabele campaign, scoring his brevet of lieutenant-colonel. Ho went on special service in South Africa when the ißoer War broke out, and, with local troops, worried the enemy from the direction of Rhodesia, finally coming down to assist in tho relief of Matching, to meet the column which came up from tho south under the present. Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon. The South African War of 181IH-1902 brought him a brevet col--onclcv. the C.8., A.D.C. to the King, and promotion to major-general for die* tinguished service in the field.

After the South African war lie had a brisade in Aldershot, mid eventually obtflii.'d the northern command. He waa sent to France in command of the Fifth Army Corps, at whose head ho remained from January to May, 1915, when he got au Army command. Sir Herbert Plumer took a leading part in the battle of Neuve G'hapelle, and it was not his fault that we suffered a bad check owing to defective Btalf work, which could not control the impetuosity of the New Army; Then ho had charge of affairs from Arnientie.'es t-i the north of Ypres. Ho commaudert the Italian Expeditionary Forcefrom November, 1917, to March, 1918, when he returned to the Western front to tako command of the sth Army.]