r Vice Marshal
Sir P. Maltby.
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RECRUITMENT OF CIVILIANS FOR STAFF DUTIES
"Officers for filling vacancies on the staff of the greatly expandel A.H.Q. and at the new stations were largely found by enrolling personnel from Australia and New Zealand. More than 140 were obtained from this source. It was possible only to give them a short disciplinary course combined with a brief survey of their duties. Their average age was 45. The remainder, more than 50 in number, were obtained by commissioning local business men in Singapore; most of them just before, but some after the outbreak of war in the Far East. For them no training was practicable. The majority of these officers were willing and able, but their value wAS limited owing to their unavoidable lack of service knowledge, experience an1 training."
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