SIR H. M. WILSON
APPOINTED TO INDEPENDENT COMMAND IN PERSIA-IRAQ AREA. SOUTH OF THE CAUCASUS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 23. The War Office has announced that it has been decided to set up a new independent army command to be known as the Persia-Iraq Command. The King has appointed General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to the command. General Wilson was born in 1881, and served in the South African War and the World War. In February, 1941, he took over the command in Cyrenaica as military governor, and two months later he was made G.O.C. of the British forces in Greece. Afterward he commanded the armies in Palestine and Transjordania, and last December he was given the command of the Ninth Army in the Middle East. NINTH ARMY NEW COMMANDER TO BE APPOINTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, August 24.The British Ninth Army in Palestine and Syria, which hitherto was commanded by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, does not come within the newly created Persia-Iraq command, to which he has just been appointed. The appointment of a new commander to the Ninth Army, which remains within the Middle East command, under General Sir Harold Alexander, is expected shortly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 3
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