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SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF HOME FLEET. SIR H. HARWOOD MADE LORD COMMISSIONER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) RUGBY, October 17. Read-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood becomes a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and AssistantChief of the Naval Staff, according to the latest Admiralty orders. ; He succeeds as from December 2 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, who has been selected for special duty inside the Admiralty. Vice-Admiral John C. Tovey becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, with the acting rank of Admiral in succession to Sir Charles Forbes, promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 5
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