NEW CHIEF OF STAFF IN MIDDLE EAST
LONDON, August 19.
Another Middle East appointment has been announced. The War Office announces that Major-General R. L. McCreery has been appointed Chief of the General Staff in the Middle East, succeeding Lieutenant-General T. W. Corbett.
Major-General McCreery is aged 44 years. He is a cavalry man who has had prolonged experience in armoured warfare and accepts mechanized warfare without resei-ve. He fought through the Dunkirk campaign, was mentioned in dispatches and gained the Distinguished Service Order. He is one of the younger progressive generals and has been entrusted with the formation and training of new armoured divisions and armoured brigade groups. Since last spring he has been adviser on armoured fighting vehicles in the Middle East.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19420821.2.50
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 24828, 21 August 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124NEW CHIEF OF STAFF IN MIDDLE EAST Southland Times, Issue 24828, 21 August 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in