NATIONAL LEADERS: General Eastwood
" RUSTY " and " Bandy " are the nicknames which Major-General Thomas Ralph Eastwood diffidently carries. His ‘slight ginger moustache provokes the first, the legs which bear his six-foot frame justify the second. Last November he was appointed Director-General of the Home Guard. Aged 50, Eastwood has been in the Army 30 years, and has seen service in Egypt, Samoa, Gallipoli, France, Russia, India, Ireland, and New Zealand. He came through Dunkirk on Viscount Gort’s staff, replaced Lieut.-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall as _ InspectorGeneral of the Home Guard; now he has been made supreme chief of the citizen army, and his old chief, Lord Gort, is Inspector-General. Sharp featured and shy, General Eastwood spends a lot of his off-duty time on the hunting field, but modifies his keenness for all sorts of sports with a passion for bird-watching as a member of the British Ornithological Union. "T am amazed at the amount of work that is being done," he said, after a tour of the Home Guard in England, Scotet
land, and Wales. Full of ideas for devee. loping the Home Guard social life, such as improving canteens, he will be helped by his wife, who is Red Cross Com* mandant. — --
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 3
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