MYSTERY POST
APPOINTMENT OF BRITISH GENERAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. June 3. Lieutenant-General Sir James Mar-shall-Cornwall has been appointed a "mystery commander-in-chief.” The “Daily Mail” gives the opinion that the secrecy surrounding the appointment is probably because General Cornwall was Military Attache in Berlin from 1928 to 1932 and the Germans know his methods and mentality. General Cornwall, aged 54, has been a soldier since 1907. He served in the last war as an intelligence officer and General Staff officer and was a member of the British delegation to the Peace Conference. In 1920-23 he served in the Army of the Black Sea in the intervention in Russia, in 1927 he served in the Shanghai Defence Force, and later he was a military attache in Berlin. Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen. In 1937 he was chief of the British Military Mission to the Egyptian Army. in 1938 directorgeneral of air and coast defence under the British War Office, and his occupation in 1939-40 was described as “special War Office employment.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 5
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