AUSTRALIAN FORCES
NEW CHIEF OF STAFF APPOINTED MARCH OVER BLUE MOUNTAINS ENDED. ROYAL SHOW TO BE HELD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The A.I.F. march over the Blue Mountains ended yesterday, with the arrival of the last brigade at Bathhurst Camp. The Minister of the Army. Senator Mcßride, said the troops would be transferred temporarily from the Sydney Showground next year to enable the Royal Show to be held. A Melbourne message states that Major-General V. A. H. Sturdee has been appointed Chief of the Australian General Staff, in succession to the late Sir Brudenell White. Mr Menzies (Federal Prime Minister) will announce the terms of the appointment today.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400830.2.70
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
115AUSTRALIAN FORCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in