MILITARY EDUCATION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 192, 31 August 1937, Page 3

MILITARY EDUCATION

Press Association.)

N.Z. Officers Being Sent Abroad SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED

(By Telegrapli—

DUNEDIN, This Day. "As part of the Government's policy of sending officers abroad for military education which cannot be provided in New Zealand, it has been decided to 1111 vacancies offered to New Zealand at tho Imperial Defence College, London, the Staff College, Camberley, England, and the Staff College, Quetta, India," said the Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence. The officers selected to attend these colleges are: Imperial Defence College, Lieut.-Colonel (tejnporary colonel) E. Miles, D.S.O.,-M.C. Staff College, Camberley, Captain W. G. Gentry, N.Z.S.C. Staff College, Quetta, India, Captain C. S. J. Duff, R.N.Z.A. Colonel Miles graduated from the Eoyal Military College of Australia in 1914 and served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1914 to 1919. He attended Camberley Staff College during 1924 and 1925, and tlien had a period of goneral training in England, returning to New Zealand in Septernber, 192G. Latterly he has held the appointment of General Staff Officer, Northern Command, which he relinquished in March, 1937, to assume command temporarily of the Northern Command with the rank of temporary colonel. Captain W. G. Gentry graduated from the Boyal Military College of Australia in 1919, and served for two years in India, participating in the quelling of the Moplah rebellion, and also had active service in Waziristan. He passed his entrance examination to the Staff College in„1932, and in 1934 he attended an engineering course at Chatham. He has since held an appointment at General Headquarters, Wellington. Captain C. S. J. Duff graduated from tho Royal Military College, Australia. in 1920. He attended a gunnery staff course in England in 1933-34. He passed his entrance examination to the Staff' College in 1933. Mr. Jones said that the main objeet of the Imperial Defenco College is to train officers and civilian officials in the broadest aspeets of strategy as e£fecting tho general defence of the' Commonwealth of Nations. It is attended by senior navij, military, and air force officers, and selected civil servants. Vacanices are allotted for similar representatives from the self-gov-ering Dominions. The course lasts one year, and provides valuable means for inculcating a common doctrine in the strategical sphero throughout the threo fighting services and civil service. The two army staff colleges provido a •thorough military education such as is required by commanders and staff officers, particularly in view of the complicated machinery of which the army now consists. It is desirable in the

future that all officers to hold higher appointments in the New Zealand army should have graduated at one or other of these colleges.