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ROYAL NAVY
THE ARMY
Latest Appointments Staff Appointments
London, Aug. 4. The following appointments were announced by the Admiralty yesterday:
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Aug. 4. The War Office announces the following appointments:
Col. 3. C. Wickham, D.5.0 to be Assistant Adjutant-General, East - ern Command, with effect from next September:""
Lieut.-Col. Ch J. V. Shepherd, D.8.0., Royal Engineers to be Assistant Quartermaster-General, Southern Command, India with effect from next. October,”
Colonel Wickham recently re- turned from Kohat, where he was
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
To-day
Monday, August 20,
Auctions-Hughes and Hough'ı Hongkong Jockey Club Paddock, Sale of four Australian Ponies,
Race Course, 5.30 p.m.
Cinemas.
King's: "While New York
Sleeps." Queen's "The Marcus Show." Central: "Melody In Spring." OrientalThis Day And Age.” World:-"Chinese Picture." Albambra: “Havana Widow,” Majestic:-"I Like It That Way.” Star: "Gold-Diggers Of 1833," Meetings St. Andrew's Church Council Meeting 8 pm: Toc H. Social Meeting, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 3-7 pm.
Lt.-W. F. H. C. Rutherford, to Pembroke (Aug. D. appt., to queen Elizabeth cancelled; V, G, D. Man- selll, to Osprey [(Aug. 4); A V. Thomas and T. N. Masterman, to Dryad (Aug. 16): H. W. Biggs, to
Lieut.-Col. L. M. Gibbs, D.S.O., Stronghold, in command (Aug 21); M.C., Coldstream Guards, to be R. T. Gardiner, to Godetia (Sept. | Assistant Adjutant-Genersi, the ́1); R. C. Lewis, J. Lewis, J. &mith, War Office, with effect from
R. G. Tosswill, J. G. Forbes, A. H. J August 6.
·Attifield, and J. R. E. Langworthy, to Dryad. for First Class Ship course; and Viscount Jocelyn, to Westcott (Sept. 3); T. H. Hill Walker. to Pembroke, for RNB (Sept. 10); C. H. Dawson, to Alec- ton (N) (Sept. 15); S. E. Norris, to Victory, for BNB. (Sept. 17)commanding the RE. Freviously J. W. R. Thompson (N). E. H. G. he was Brigade Major and DAA Gregson (G), D. H. Maitland-
at Army Headquarters. He was in Makgül-Crichton, R. J. H. Couch, the frontier operations of 1830. In and G. I. M. Balfour, to Carlisle
France he was wounded and inen- tioned. He came to the War Omee as Staff Captain and G.8.0.3 and later was employed with the 8th | Taft, Payr. Cadets.-J. G. West and R. Training Reserve Brigade and at H. Carwood, to Revenge (Aug. 19):
the School of Miltary Engineering. H. M. de B. Lipscomb, to Sussex He also had service with the Abor (Aug. 23); J. P. K. Harkness, to Survey Expedition. En has pas. Hood; P. C. Eliott, to Delhi; G. H, ed through bọth the Royal Navy L. Kitson to Barham; L Suther- and the Arniy Staff Caleges, - land, to Nelson; W. C. F. Grant- Lt. Col. Gibbs commands the 1st Dalton, to Ramilies; G. S. Buck-Battalion, Coldstream Guards, and nall, to Berwick; R. D. M. W. vacates four months before the Thomas-Ferrand to Emerald; N. completion of his terrise. From 3. Bummers, to Achilles; and E. D. Eton he joined the battalion, Price, to Ramilies (Sept. 1); and The Somersetshire ? Aght Infantry,
(on recommg.); F. Hodgson, C. T. B. Tibbits, and D. E. Langmore, to Hermes (on commissioning for trials),
HONG KONG CANTON AND to Carlisle (Sept. 17, the old coui Militia. He was
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EXCURSION TO MACAO
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Victory, for MT.E., Portsmouth (Sept. 1); V. G. Daw, to Berwick (Sept. 8); F. Fleetwood, to Pem- broke, for M.TE., Chatham (Sept. 5); D. G. B. Cock, to St. Angelo (Sept. 15); V. A. Cox, to Resource; W. H. Sellers, to Godeta and J. A. Slade, to Nelson (on relief),
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" ADMIRALS OF THE FLEET
A misconception has arisen in regard to the dates of retirement for Admirals of the Fleet. Under the latest regulation It does not
always follow that. an officer of
this rank may remain active List in "The
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on Tues- day. He may do so if he is over 60 years of age when pro- moted, as he is allowed five years in the rank. He may also do so, irrespective of age, if he is actually employed,
The change in this respect was Introduced early in 1927, when the following regulation came
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Monthly
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Meeting, Hongkong Football Association Council, Sports Club, 5.30 p.m.; Aquatics, Head- quarter Wing, South Wales Borde- ters, YMCA, Bath.
posted in Bio to the unit he now 25. commands and went to Brance as a captain in it. He was adjutant twice, acting lieutenant-Colonel in 1916, Staff Captain with the 1st Guards Brigade 0.8.0.3, Guards Division. Brigade Major, 140th Brigade, and on the staff of the Supreme War - Council wounded and 3 times decorated. He came to the London District staf, and in 1922 went to Delhi as A.D.C. to Lord Rawlinsori and had service
in Waziristan. He will be pro-. moted.
He was
shot and recently was Staff Officer Lieut.-Col: Shepherd is at Alder- to Brigadier H. A. Walker, the Inspector-General of The Ring's
African Rines. Previous duty was at Liverpool as D.AA. and Q.M.G. in the West Lancashire Area, and he has had special employment under both the War Office and Air Ministry In the War he was a General Staff Officer at G.H.Q. in France and with the XVII. Army Corps, and in the Directorate of Military Intelligence. At Poona he succeeds Col. H. N. A. Hunter, into D.S.O., who comes" home, to com- force:--"Admirals of the Fleet mand the 11th Infantry Brigade promoted to that rank subsequent at Colchester next month. He will to February 7, 1927, are to be re- be promoted. tired as soon as five years have elapsed since. the date of such promotion, but it an officer- 1s then actually employed, the period of five years may be extended up to the date of reaching the age of 65 or of ceasing employment, if earlier."
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
Aircraft Re- equipment
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Aug. 4. During the next few months
aircraft of seven new types will be issued for the re-equipment of cer tain squadrons at home and abroad.
No. 8 Squadron at Aden and No.
4 in Iraq will receive Vincent general purpose aircraft in place of DLF and Wapiti machines re- ceive the Hardy general purpose spectively. The first unit. to re-
(Fighter)
aircraft ап adaptation of the Hart day bomber, is No. 30 at Mosul, Iraq. No. 41 Squadron at Northolt will receive a further, consignment of Denion. two-seat fighters to replace Bull. dogs. The Gauntlet day and night fighter is to be issued to No. 19.
fils in China, mand of the 4th Submarine Flot. Fighter) Squadron at Duxford, re
placing Bulldogs. The Heyford express night bomber is being sup- plied to No. 10 (Bomber) Squadron at Boscombe Down in place of Virginias."
ENTERTAINING ALLOWANCE Hitherto the rates of entertain ing allowance for captains, R.N., The first officer to be affected have been dependent on the rate By a coincidence, the frst fly- by this rule may be Admiral of the of command money payable to ing-boat squadron to receive the Fleet Bir Roger Keyes. He was them. The rates have been 88. new Singapore II. aircraft will be promoted on May 8, 1930, at the 58, or 2s. 6d. a day according as No, 205, at Singapore, in place of age of 874. He is therefore due to
the rate of command money is Southamptons. No. 824 Squadron retire on May 8, 1935, on com-10878,, or se, a day. A new Order of the Fleet Air Arm, at present in pleting five years seniority unless in Council now published in the HMS. Eagle in China, will receive employed in the meantime.
"London Gazette" provides that the new Seal a fleet version of the the rate of entertaining allow-Gordon day bomber, in place of ance payable to & captain should not necessarily be dependent on the rate of command money pay-
He
will not attain the age of 65 until
October 4, 1937.
RETURN OF THE CARLISLE The cruiser Carlisle, Captain F. R. Barry, is due to leave Simons- town to-day for home to recom- mission. She is to call at Ascen 'sion from August 10 to 13 and · Sierra Leone, from August 18, to 23, and should arrive at Plymouth on September 1. Captain Barry has been three years in command of the Carlisle an Illustration of the later policy of the Admiralty
entertaining
TILF aircraft.
New Aircraft Named
able. The Admiralty are au The official name of the Hawker thorized "to pay
day bomber aeroplane fitted with allowance to captains holding Kestrel V engine is Bind, and the prescribed appointments at the this name la ordered to be used rate of 88., 58., or 2s. 6d. 4 day at in all reports and correspondence our discretion in conjunction with relating to the new type- the payment of command more at the rate of 10s a day,
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