Maj.-Gen, W. D. Brownrigg, Commander_ of the Sist (Highland) divi-slon of the Territorial Army a formerly in Shanghai with the Shang-hal Defence Force, has been appointed Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Leslie Here Belisha, according to an announce ment made by the War Omice to-day.
He succeeds Viscount Gort, newly-appointed Chief of ne Imperial General Staff. The appointment will fake effect as from January 3-
Fifty-one years of age, Maj-Gen. Brownrigg served with the 13th Division under It-Gen. Sir Frederick Shaw in Gallipoli in 1915 and Mesopotamia from 1915 to 1918. He was "mentioned in despatches six times, Maj.-Gen, Brownrige was Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General with the Shanghai Defence Force In Shanghai in 1927, and later A.A, and QAEG. in charge of the Administra~ tion of the North China Command in 1928 and of the China Command from 1929 to 1931.—Reuter.
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