MILITARY CHANGES
APPOINTMENTS APPROVED
BY THE KING
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 29, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, December 28. Military appointments approved by the King include the following:—
Colonel F. K. Simmons, from General Staff Officer, first grade, with the British forces in Palestine and the Transjordan, temporary, to be Commander of the Shanghai area and the British
troops in China, with the temporary rank of Brigadier, in place of Colonel A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, who is, being appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, to take effect on June •5. 1939. Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Leslie, Royal Berkshire Regiment, to be Commander of the Canal Bridge and the British troops in Egypt with the temporary rank pf Brigadier, in place of Colonel W. T. Brooks, whose tenure expires on October 14,,1939.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 9
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