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Last To Leave
Gallipoli
Reunion Of Men Who Blew Up Dumps
Bix
former members of the toyal Naval Division Engineers dined together last month to com- memorate their part in the evacuation of "V" Beach at Galli- poli.
"We were the demolition party." Mr. R. J. Bowyer, one of the party, said, "and we were standing by | after all the troops had been evacuated to blow up and destroy | by various methods the stores. ammunition, and so on. We pre- pared these for demolition previ- of fuses, bombs ously by means
Naval Appointments
Admiralty Announcements
The following appointments were made by the Admiralty:-
Cdra.-E. H. A. Baker, to Challen- ger; and A. Jones, to Fitzroy.
LA-Cars.-R. R. Helbert, to Dol- phin (Jan. 25), to Excellent (Feb. 8), and to Tamar (Feb, 22); P. Q. Roberts, to Dolphin (Feb. 1), and to Medway (Feb. 131; A. B. B. Foulerton, to Kellett: and W. g. Hail, to Regulus.
Surgn. Lt-Cdr.-T. W. Froggatt. M.B., to Pembroke, for R.N.B. (Jan. 18).
The King At
Goodwood?
(Continued from Paze L
had to abandon. It is almost cer- tain that he will go to Goodwood as the guest of the Duke of Rich- mond and Gordon.
This is all the more likely as the present Duke and his sisters were childhood friends of the Queen,
Knowsley's Bathrooms Knowsley was built for the most part by the tenth earl in the first quarter of the 18th century.
Instr. Lt-Cdr.-A, R. Edwards, to
The original home of the Stan- Osprey "(Jan. 23).
Chaplain-Rev. C. B. Ellis, to lers was on another site in the Drake, for R.N.B. (Jan. 14).
park. This is of 2,500 acres. the L-W. G. Knight," to Drake, for largest in the North, if not in the R.N.B. (Dec. 1, 1936),
whole, of England.
and various apparatus. We also Cd. Gunner.-J. D. Allen, to Pre- destroyed a great deal of the pro-sident, for duty in D.N.O.. Admir- perty the French had left behind) alty (Jan. 18). In the Sedd-el-Bahr Fort, includ- ing 14 horses and a donkey, all of which we shot.
"We laid 40-minute time fuses, which enabled us, when we had completed lighting them, to reach the River Clyde,, from which we embarked 04 to a trawler and then on to the light cruiser Chat- ham for Mudros. We were about a mile and a half out when, at about 4 o'clock, the fuses began to operate and all the big mines, the various ammunition dumps and stores blew up.
"The Turks began to open fre, and the whole Peninsular was ablaze with every kind of light from the fires which had started, su that we knew that our work had been successful.
ESCAPE IN GALE
"There was a gale of at least 40 miles an hour which made the
difficulty of getting away very: great. There is no boubt in an- other hour or two we would have been too late.
"Major T. C. Aveling, Q.B.E., who was in charge of the demolition, died in 1984. Actually the evacua- tion was the quietest thing that could ever have happened, but seemed impossible because the same trick had been played on the Turks at Anzac three weeks be- fore.
"After the last troops had gone we had to wait for an hour before we It anything. and that was the worst, the most nerve-racking. part
of the whole business."
Duke Of Gloucester's Military Future
I learn that the Duke of Glou- cester is giving up his active mi- tary career in order to assist the King in his heavy duties of official representation. writes a Home correspondent.
By doing so he will have to abandon his great ambition of commanding his regiment, the 10th Hussars.
Recently it was stated that the Duke would be in command in the autumn of 1937, when Colonel B. O. Hutchison, the present com- mandag officer, will have retired. The information WELS correct, The abdication of King Edward, however, has necessitated an alter- ation of the arrangements which had then been made.
Greatest Interest
It is no secret that the Duke's greatest interest in life has been his regiment.
Schoolmaster.-F. M. Cooper, to 'Ganges (Jan. 15).
Retirements
The colonnade, which is one of the striking features of the house, was added by the 13th earl in 1820. But until the present Lord Derby succeeded his father as 17th earl In 1908. Hittle alteration had been
Cd. Gunner.-R. Webb, placed on made to the interior. the Ret. List (Nov. 10, 1935).
Cd. Sig. Bosn.-F.A. J. O. Wise man, placed on the Retd. List, with rank of Sig. Lt (Jan. 12);
Royal Naval Reserve Capt R. L. F. Hubbard, placed on the Retd. List (Jan. 1).
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lt.-A. D. Bruford, promoted to Lt.Cdr. (seny. Nov. 16, 1938).
Cruise of the Danae
The programme of the return voyage of the cruiser Danae, Capt. L H. Maund, from Adelaide to China after attending the South Australia Centenary, has been modified. She recently left Sydney and was at Brisbane from Jan. 20 to 23 and Port Darwin on January 30 and 31. he then visited the
Moluccas, calling at Banda Island from Feb. 2 to 6, and at Ternate Island from February 8 to 11, and Cebu from February 14 to 18. on her way to Hong Kong, where she is expected on February 20.
Destroyers for Experiment
It possessed at that time, I be- leve-like another great 18th-cen- tury house. Stowe but a single
It has bath
beer: thoroughly modernised if this and other respects.
room.
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Greville, who, If I am not mis- taken, complained a century ago of suffering from the cold amid its grandeurs, would have no cause to shiver in its rooms to-day:
Moscow "Purge"
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In Swing
(Continued from Pare 1.)
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An additional 300 Communists were arrested on Sunday in the Ukranian capital, Kiev, according to the "Daily Mirror," which states that this resulted from the discovery of a plot to assassinate a close collaborator and possible Two of the destroyers which are
successor to Staln. Among those being scrapped will be retained in arrested was the secretary-general a demilitarized condition for ex-or the Communist Party, Sapov. periment. The Sabre, hitherto in the Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth, will
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The same paper. declares that be adapted as a target ship: and disorders continue in the Ukraine, the Tyrant in the Portsmouth nine persons having been killed. Local Destroyer Flotilla, will be Two Cossack reguments have been used for experimental work. The ordered to Southern Ukraine Sabre was completed in 1818, when quell the uprisings.-- Lieutenant-Comdr. F. G. Schurr Transocean News Service. assumed command of her; the Tyrant in 1917, with Lieut.-Comdr. T. C. C. Bolster as her first com- manding officer. Both these off- cers are now retired captains.
Voroshilov Mystery
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I imagine that many people would be slightly mystified by the War Minister's declaration that He has served with the 10th conscription would not solve the Hussars for Afteen years, and has problem of recruiting for our Re- seen them reach the highest point | gular Army, writes a Home cof- of efficiency both in soldiering respondent, Well. It's this way. and in polo.
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He has been a most able and popular officer, and had already completed the first part of his course at the Staff College.
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