Some big changes take place in October as follo Gen, Sir William Bartholomew, Ay leaves New Delhi to be G.0.C.- '-Chiet, Northern Command at home, Gen, Wardrop retiring, Lieut-Gen. John Dill, now knight" ed, leaves Jerusalem to command at "Aldershot in place of Gen, Sir Francis Lieut-Gen. Sir Ivo Vesey leaves Poona for New Delhi to be Chief of the General Star Lieut-Gen, Sir John Brind leaves New Delhi to be G.OC.-in-Chief, Southern Command, India, Lieut-Gen. Sir Sydney Muspratt eaves India to be Military Secretary at the India Ofce for the second time.
Maj.. Gen, R. C, Wilson leaves the India "OMee to be Adjutant-Geacral {in India and is knighted.
Col, R. W. D. Leslie is to be a major-general in August and'take over medical charge of Northern Command at home.
Col. A. D. Fraser Is to be a major general "in August and take over medical charge of the Southern Com= mand in India, Maj-Gen. D. S, Skelton: to leave Poona for half' pay.
Col, Guy Robinson, who was @.S02 in China, 1930-32, goes from Hythe to Rangoon in September to command the brigade area there, fantry Brigade at Portsmouth Aurust. He commanded the Ist South Wales Borderers in Hongkong a year or two ago. From lieut.-colonel in 1034 he was made colonel and in Uhre years has reached major-general.
Liewt-Col R. T. Alexsnder has Issued a book on india marksmen at Wimbledon and Bisley. "He gives 3 complete record of all the team shoots, the crowning triumph of which was the winning of the Kolapore Cup in 1988. "T notice that some of the lesser teams of the Far East _have competed. In 1906 the Malay Slates shot to within a point of India and only 25 below the winners. In 1908 the Malay States "Guides finished ahead of India, and all being Sikhs they must have liked that. Two years! later "the Guides. tried again" and Placed themselves in front of South 'Africa, India and Singapore, A united' effort from the Pacific' was made in 1928 when a team called The Par East shot at Bisley and finished last of nine teams.
Training Season The training of the Army this year fat home will be on a modest scale without any important concentration Inside or outside the manceuvre areas. The highest form will be an Inter Divisional exercise between the Ist! and 2nd Divisions in the Bast Anglia Manguvre Area on September 8 10, the main advantage being a change: over from Aldershot to new. ground for the autumn, The Divisions will not be strong as the machine gun battalions will be lett at home, while the 2nd. Infantry Brigade is suit in Palestine.
The presence of a full artillery force "will allow. a counter Dallery "exercise" to take In August under Brig.
Heywood (of the Shaforce). The number of batteries to be employed Will be 42 s0 that this exercise prom~ ses to be the most important of the series in showing how the predominance of artillery in the field can bbe met ina dual to get the troops forward. 'This scheme will have a counterpart in' the East Kent Manceuvre Area_where 22 batteries will exercise. The personal note in. the training is that it wilt be the last for Gen. Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy who leaves. Aldershot after the con-lusian of the training: and this appiles "also to Gen. "Sir Alexander Wardrop of the Northern Command.
Tank Force Expansion the building up of a tank force with cavalry regiments hag a deep terest for the Royal Tank Corps in relation to ils own expansion. while back the scrapping of infantry jand transfer of the money to tank building was a theme carrying much support but the authorities would not Jeountenance it, 'To-day authority has qualms about converting cavalry Dut the subtle way in which it is being done has a face-saving grace'
that the arm is not being dispersed Jand retains its honoured names and traditions, To the tank man, however, the not sult is that the cavalry is added to the tank force if not to the corps itself and that its direction must come within the scope of RRC. commanders. "In due time, it is contended, the cavalry tank units will be included in the, corps proper and led "the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tank Brigades with perhaps ith tu EAD Having this In mind. certain tank officers suggest that cavalry tank units [should Tink with the light tank companies in India for drafting and re-infareement and by this means carry the full tank role to the Indian Establishment, Presumably this envisages the expansion of the India companies into Battalions, but all this talk while being of interest has no official backing. So far the intention is that the three cavalry brigades outside of India shall be a force of tanks and motors apart feom_ the Indian Establishment and the Royal Tank Corps. It does not, however, require much imagination 16 visualize thet a tank brigade and two ight tank cavalry brigades forming a mobile division will be for practical Durpeses one body and cannot be indefinitely kept apart on the ground traditional sentiment about famous regiments. In any case we have begun to count the tank force as one
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