OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 11

OBITUARY

GENERA], SIR CHARLES MOXRO

LONDON, 7th December

The death is announced of General Sir Charles Monro, who organised the evacuation of Gallipoli at the end of 1915.

General Sir Charles Mouro was born in 1860, and was educated at Sherborno. Entering the army in 1579, he served with the Malakand Field Force on the North-West frontier of India, and in the South African campaign. I l 1914 he commanded the Second Division at Aldershot, and in the following year he was appointed to the command of tho Third Army in • the Great War. In October of 1915 he took over tho command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was called upon to decide whether the Gallipoli campaign was to be continued. He quickly made liis decision in regard to the matter. Although the Government was disposed to cling to tho peninsula, ho insisted upon its abandonment, and he was, after some delay, allowed to have his way, vrith the result that the forces concentrates at ,various points along tho coast were withdrawn from a most dangerous position without appreciable loss. He returned to tho Western Front to succeed the late Earl Haig (then Sir Douglas Haig) iv command of tho First Army Corps, but in October, 1916, he was selected to bo Commander-in-Chief in India. In his new sphere Sir Charles proved himself to be an administrator of raro perception, and by his untiring energy and skilful organisation he succeeded in adding substantially to the strength of the nativg army in that country. The consequence was that he was able to dispatch considerable and badly needed reinforcements to Mesopotamia and to Egypt and Palestine. In 1923 he was appointed to the position of Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, a post which he occupied until the end of last 3'ear.