MILITARY CAREER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1939, Page 2

MILITARY CAREER

VISCOUNT GALWAY’S RECORD.

WINNER OF D’.S.O. IN LAST

Viscount Galway, the GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, is the eighth Viscount of a baronetcy created in 1727, and has had conferred on him orders of 0.8. E. in 1919, G.C.M.G. in 1935, and the P.O. in 1937. The first holder of the title was Baron Killard in 1727, and in 1887 it was changed to Baron Monckton (United Kingdom). Viscount Galway’s official title now is Governor-General and Commander-In-Chief of New Zealand.

He has had a distinguished and varied military career, and is a former Lieutenant of the Life Guards. He was a Commandant of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1933-1935, and was an honorary Colonel of the seventh battalion of the Sherwood Forresters in 1933.

Viscount Galway was educated at Eton College, Christ Church, and Oxford University. From 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, and was in the First Life Guards in 1904, and was Adjutant from 1908 to 1911. In 1911 he was a captain. In the years 1914-15 he was a staff captain of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, and from 1915-17 was deputyassistant adjutant and quartermastergeneral of the Second Cavalry Brigade. He was assistant adjutant and quarter-master general in 1917-19. He won the D.S.O. in 1917. In 1919 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the Life Guards from 1925 to 1929, when he retired. A military career is not the only type of life that Viscount Galway has been interested in, for in 1910 he contested the Scarborough seat of Parliament as a Conservative candidate.

Viscount Galway’s English home is at Serlby Hall, Bawtry, in Yorkshire.