GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S STAFF.
, NEW AIDE-DE-CAMP APPOINTED. I CAPTAIN RICHARD WARDELL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The appointment of Captain Richard Wardell, of the New Zealand Temporary Staff,' to the staff of the GovernorGeneral as an aide-de-camp was gazetted last night. Captain Wardell is the son of Mrs and the late Mr T, W. Wardell, of Te Whiti, Masterton, and a grandson of the late Mr James Armstrong, of Akitio, Hawke’s Bay. 'He is 31 years of age, and was educated at Croydon Preparatory School, Wellington, and Nelson College. On leaving college he took up farming. In 1940 he joined the army anti after training was commissioned at Trentham. Posted to the 22nd (Wellington) Battalion, he went overseas with the third echelon in the same year, and saw service in the 1941 push which carried the Eighth Army to Tobruk and beyond, and then back to El Alamein. In the attack at El Alamein which initiated the drive that ended in Rommel’s exit from North Africa, he was wounded. He was invalided back to New Zealand, arriving with a party of wounded in June this year. He has since been transferred to the Reserve of Officers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1943, Page 3
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195GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S STAFF. Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1943, Page 3
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