Sir Hugh Trenchard for New Zealand?
‘GOVERNOR-GENERALSHIP AIR MARSHAL MENTIONED (From Our Resident Reporter) WELLINGTON, Today. Advice which has reached New Zealand is that Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard may be the Dominion's next Governor-General. Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard has had a most distinguished career and is to retire from the Air Ministry at the end of the present year at the age of 56. For the past seven years he has been Air Chief-Marshal in England. He served in South Africa with the Empire Yeomanry Bushmen’s Corps, having joined the army in 1893, and later in West Africa he commanded the Northern Nigeria Regiment. From being colonel of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, he passed into the air arm. during the Great War. Since 1918 he has been Chief of the Air Staff and from 1921 to 1925 he was principal Air A.D.C. to the King. In 1919 he became Air-Marshal and later Air Chief-Marshal, which post he is shortly leaving. He became a baronet in 1919 and holds the G.C.8., D. 5.0., and orders of France, Belgium, Italy, Russia and Japan, besides which he is an honorary LL.D. of Cambridge University and a D.C.L. of Oxford. During the Great War he was eight times mentioned in dispatches.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 1
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