GENERAL SIR HENRY POWNALL, Wavell's chief-of-staft, has been Chief of the General Staff, B.E.F., Inspector-General of the Home Guard, Vice - Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and com-mander-in-chief in the Far East during the present war. The Far East appointment was in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, and he arrived in Singapore only at Christmas. He started his military career as an artillery officer, and commanded a battery during some of the fiercest fighting in France during the last war. He has been described as "rugged, handsome, and with a humorous twinkle in his eye."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 7
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98GENERAL SIR HENRY POWNALL, Wavell's chief-of-staft, has been Chief of the General Staff, B.E.F., Inspector-General of the Home Guard, Vice - Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and commander-in-chief in the Far East during the present war. The Far East appointment was in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, and he arrived in Singapore only at Christmas. He started his military career as an artillery officer, and commanded a battery during some of the fiercest fighting in France during the last war. He has been described as "rugged, handsome, and with a humorous twinkle in his eye." New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 7
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