GENERAL EASTWOOD
AJOR-GENERAL T. R. EAST: | WOOD, D.S.O., M.C., who has been appointed InspectorGeneral of the Home Guard in Britain, is well known to New Zealanders. When the last war broke out he was aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, Lord Liverpool, but he immediately joined up with the New Zealand forces and went to Samoa with the rank of Lieutenant. When the New Zealand Rifle Brigade was formed General Eastwood went overseas to Egypt as Brigade Major. He served in Egypt and went to France with the Division. Later, when a 4th Brigade was organised in France, he was appointed Brigade Major on the headquarters staff. From there he was appointed General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, on Divisional Headquarters, but rejoined his own unit, the British Rifle Brigade, in October, 1918, and went to Russia with Lord Rawlinson as a staff officer. Until the outbreak of this war General Eastwood was Commandant of the Imperial Staff College at Camberley. He ‘served on Lord Gort’s staff during the ‘evacuation of Dunkirk.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 4
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171GENERAL EASTWOOD New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 4
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