GENERAL TOWNSHEND
MAY 13E COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN. INDIA. London, May 11. It is reported that Jlajor-Gencral Sir Charles V. F. Townshend is likely to be appointed Commandor-iu-Cliicf in India. -Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. _ , . [General Townshend was in command of the main expedition in Mesopotamia, in the original effort to reach Bagdad, and after fighting tho biiltleof Ctesiphon was forced to retire to K'ut-el-Amara, whero he was besieged, and after a gal* lant and prolonged defence had to eur« render to tho Turks, the efforts to release Kut having failed. General T'ownshond was released on tho termination of tho hostilities. Ho served in tlia Chitral campaign, and had command of tho-garrison of Chitral during tho siego of that place. In 1907-!) ho was Assist-ant-Adjutant-Gencral of the Ninth sion of tho Army in India.]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 205, 24 May 1919, Page 7
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130GENERAL TOWNSHEND Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 205, 24 May 1919, Page 7
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