FOE STAFF COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 10

FOE STAFF COLLEGE

CAPTAIN CLIFTON'S SUCCESS

Advice that he has been successful in the entrance examination to the military staff college, Camberley, England, has been received by Captain Gr. H. Clifton, M.C., of Auckland, adjutant to the Ist Field Company and Northern Signal Depot. Captain Clifton will leave for England on 29th November, arriving in time to commence Ms two years' course in January (states the "New Zealand Herald"). A competitive examination for candidates for Camberley is held annually. The papers arc set in London for the whole of the British Empire, and one officer from New Zealand is selected each. year. The only two graduates of Camberley in the Northern Command at present are Colonel J. E. Duigan, officer commanding the Northern Command, and Major E. Miles, general staff officer.

Captaia Clifton was born at Napier, and after attending the Pahiatua District High School, he entered the Boyal Military College of Australia at Duntroon in 1915. At the conclusion of a four years' course he saw service with the Ist King George Js Own Bengal Sappers and Miners on the North-west Indian frontier in 1919 and 1920, and was awarded the Military Cross. Captain Clifton returned to New Zealand and in 1924= went to England to take special courses at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, at Aldershot, and with the Royal Air Force at Farnborough, where new machines are tested. He came to New Zealand again in 1926, and was posted to his present position.

While Captain Clifton is absent, he 'will be relieved by Captain A. "W. Ofreville, while Captain D. H. "W. H. Donaldson will replace Captain Greville.