GENERAL CHAYTOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CHAYTOR.

COMMANDER OF THE FORCES. By Telegraph.-Presa Association. Wellington, Las? tfignl H is regarded ns certain thai'Majorf.eneral S,r E. W. C. Chaytor will J.,, ceed Major-General Sir A. Robin as Con,mandmg Officer of the New Zealand r orces. General Robin will relieve Colonel late temporarily a 3 Administrator of Samoa, and on his return to N*w Zealand he will retire. . K-CM-G C.8., A.D.C.. to the King commanded ft. Amm M o„nt«t Divis > w' KflTrt and Palestine. Sir Edward & 13 a member »f a well-known Mar borough family, and has had a long mihtary recor*. He served with the ISew Zealand Forces in the South African war from April, 1900, to the declaration of peace in" 1902 beinp in command o the Third New Zealand Continent dunng part of 1900, at which time he was severely wounded. Aftenmd* he was m command : 0 f the Eighth Contingent and was mentioned in de-ipritcto for distinguished service. On the inauguration of compulsory train™, t.Vneral Qhaytor joined the New Zealand Staff Corps, and went Home to En-land tor a course at the Staff Coljego. Cam- *£?: W l cre he K radua «- On his return to New Zealand he became adju-tant-general to the forces, with the rank the Main Body m October, 1914, attach, ed to (he headquarters staff, and rendered valuable service at Gallipoli, where w wa , s n ,l voundft( l about the middle of May, 1915. After the evacuation he assumed command of the New Zealand Mounted Forces in Egypt and Palestine, and was eventually promoted to the command of the Anzac Mounted Division, with the rank 0 f major-general. General Chaytor was mentioned in despatches in August, 1015, for his work at ~ 'P o ' l ' and W£ > s made a Companion of PMn IThile ' m lm he 'reived the irir * flnd Was a PP omtpd »■ Dominion the Kin ff' He ,l ' as created K..C,M.G. in May of last year]