WAR GENERAL DEAD
HERO OF WESTERN FRONT KILLED IN SMASH LONDON, Tuesday. General Sir Horace Smitli-Dorrien was gravely injured in a motoring accident a few miles from his own home and died without regaining consciousness. , . The general’s saloon car collided a., a crossroad with a small touring car and was capsized, throwing him heavily. General Smith-Dorrien commanded his corps at the Battle of the Marne, on the Aisne, and during the severe fighting in Flanders in October and November, 1914. On the splitting up of the British forces into two armies he was appointed to the command o‘ the second. That position he held till April. 1915, when he was sent back to England and put in charge of one of the home defence armies. In the following year he was chosen to lead the British forces in German East Africa, but became ill on the voyage, was unable to take up the command, and had to return home. In 1917 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower, and in 191 S Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar. He retired from the Army in 1923.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 11
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184WAR GENERAL DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 11
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