PROMOTION CAME QUICKLY to Major-General R. Young. C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., during the war years. He left tor France with the Main Body as a major in the Canterbury Regiment and, in 1915, was gazetted a brigadier-getieral and placed in command of the Third (N.Z.) Ride Brigade. Note, as General Officer commanding the New Zealand forces, he is at the head of the defence department which controls the military training of 1,330 officers and 54,079 men.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 780, 28 September 1929, Page 19
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77PROMOTION CAME QUICKLY to Major-General R. Young. C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., during the war years. He left tor France with the Main Body as a major in the Canterbury Regiment and, in 1915, was gazetted a brigadier-getieral and placed in command of the Third (N.Z.) Ride Brigade. Note, as General Officer commanding the New Zealand forces, he is at the head of the defence department which controls the military training of 1,330 officers and 54,079 men. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 780, 28 September 1929, Page 19
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