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NEWS ABOUT THE SERVICES
ROYAL NAVY
COMPLETION OF THE
THE ARMY
M.P.S' VISIT TO RECRUITS' DEPOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
STAFF APPOINTMENTS MAIDSTONEG
Wing Commander J. Blackford, The new submarine depot-ship Sir Victor Warrender, Financial recently attending the Army Maidstone left the Atting-out Secretary of the War Office, offi- Senior Officers' School at sheer- basin at the Clydebank shipyard cers from the war Omce, and ness, has been appointed to the of John Brown and Co., Limited, about 40 members of Parliament Directorate of Staff Duties Air on May 6, for Portsmouth, where visited the Recruits Physical De-Ministry, in succession to Wing she will be commissioned for ser-velopment Depot, Canterbury, on Commander D. V. Carnegie, A.F.C. vice, in the Mediterranean as May 5. The party, which included depot-ship of the 1st Submarine Major-General H. H. A. Emerson, Flotilla in place of the Cyclops. Director of Hygiene, and Major A. Captain P. Ruck-Keene assumed J. K. Pigott Deputy Assistant command of the Maidstone in Adjutant-General, saw 194 recruits January.
at work.
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RAF. APPOINTMENTS
Al vice
The following appointments in the Royal Air Force are notified:- GENERAL DUTIES REANCH Wing Commanders.—I: G Designed by the late Sir Arthur | ASSUMPTION OF APPOINTMENTS
Walser,
M.C., to Headquarters, Johns, and built under the 1935
The following officers took up RAF, Far Fast, for construction programme. the Maidstone is of 8,900 tons displace- their new appointments on May Starr (Intelligence) duties,
Wing Commander A. G. Bishop, ment and is fully equipped for the Brigadier R. V. Pollok, C.R.E. OBE. AFC. (April 15); D. V. tunintenance of submarines, with
D.S.O.. from command of the Carnegie, A.FC.. to RAF. Station. foundries, machine-shops. and
Senior Officers' School, Sheerness Wittering. to command; J. Black- plumbers' shops: and there are a
as G.O.C., Northern Ireland Dis-ford, to Directorate of Staff Duties, church. concert hall, and chemistrict, with the rank of major-Air Ministry. vice Wing Com- for the personnel of the "submar- ines. The Cyclops is worn out after more than 30 years, service in the Navy.
general.
mander D. V. Carnegie, A.F.C. Colonel R. L. Petre, D.S.O.. M.C.. (April 21). from G.S.0.1. Sudan Defence Force. as Commandant of the
Squadron Leadera. E Owen, M.C., to Aeroplane and Armament Experiments Establishment. Mar- - tlesham Heath, for administrative duties (March 23).
AIR COMMODORE BROMET
• RETURN OF THE APOLLO Senior Officers' School, Sheerness. The cruiser Apollo, Captain M. 3. ] with the rank of brigadier. C. de Merie. M.V.O.. has left Ber-. Colonel V. O. Beuttler. D.B.O.. muda for home to rent and recom- from the half-pay list, as Assistant mission: The Apollo is the shipDirector of Supplies and Transport Air Commodore G. R. Bromet, which brought home the body of Southern Command. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald from Berinuda to Devonport at the end
of November last.
EAST AFRICA CRUISE
dergoing a nine, months' course,
}D.SO., ORE, Senior Air --Staff Officer in the Coastal Command, has retired at his own request at the age of 46, after 34 years' seṛ-
under the scheme introduced fast vice, in the Navy and R.AF.
HMS. Emerald, Captain A. W. 8. ]year,
Agar, V.C., D.S.O., left Colombo en INTELLIGENCE DIVISION May 2 on what will probably be On his retirement from the
her last cruise on the Tast Indies civil staff of the Naval Intelligence. P. Gunner, to Tamar, as Flag Lt. Ita~~J. A. C. Henley, to Duncan: Station before she is relieved by Division Mr. H. T. Bassett was to Cdre. E B C. Dicken (Mar 5); the new cruiser Liverpool. com- presented with a wireless set and J. Caldecott-Emith, to Barham pleting on the Clyde. She will visit a wrist-watch by the Director. (May 10): 0. G. Cameron, to Hardy Land! May 18-20; Zanzibar, May Rear-Admiral J. A. G. Troup, C.B. (May 17). |21-26; and Mombasa, May 26-June on behalf of the staff. Mr. Bassett
9. On returning home she is to
Join the Reserve Fleet,
has been 45 years in the public service. having entered the Post Office Savings Bank in 1893 and the Admiralty in 1897...
REFIT OF THE RAMILLIES HMS. Ramilles, Captain E. N. Syfret, of the 2nd Hattle Squadron, Home Fleet. is ordered to return to Devonport about July 9, and to begin on July 11 to reduce and de-store preparatory to being taken in hand for à long reft, formiralty (May. 9). (which £200,000 has been allocated
to Fowey (May 7); R. A. Stenhouse, Sürpn. Lts.-R. MCM. Latté, M.B..
to Drake, for R.N.B.; D. Simpson, MB., to Norfolk II for Trincomalee Dockyard (May, 9). ş
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS
· Mids~A. M. Cole-Hamilton, M. The following appointments are Hordern, S. . Bloomer, J. B. made by the Admiralty:
Mason, to Southampton (May 8). Cdr.. (E).-F. V. Stopford, to Bosn—A W. Anderson, to. Re- President for service inside Ad-solution' (May 9).
Wt. Engra-H. A. Dennis, to Lt.-Cdr.-W. D. R. Hargreaves, to | Hawkina (March 2); T. K
Reynolds. to Salamander (May L. 25);
in the new Navy Estimates. The Warspite (May 14). " Ramilles is the ship in which the 14.-Cdr. ". (Emergency) —H. first class of 31 lower deck can- Agnew, replaced on the Emergency didates for commissioned rank as List (with original, seny. of Dec. acting aub-lleutenant are un-15. 1923).
(June 1).
Maunder, to Valiant
Wt. Writer.-H. Porterfield, to Ganges (May 31).
WEDNESDAY MAY 18, 1938.
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