He joined the Royal Artillery in. November, 1905, and before the war served in England, in West Africa and in India, At the outbreak of the war he was on home leave from India and went to France in September of 1914. In June, 1918, he went to Egypt and Gallipoli and the following October he was in Serbia where he took part in the retreat from Serbia to Salonika in December, 1915. Thereafter he served continuously on tle-Macedonian front until November 1918, During 1916 he served as stof? captain R. A. General Staff Officer, third, second and first grade, in quick succession and finally in May, 1018, he was appointed chief of the Intelligence Section, which post he held until the following April. was attached to General Sir George Milne's staff headquarters "from June, 1916, to November, 1919, and the latter part of 1918 he ' was stationed in Constantinople.
For three months during the early part of 1919 he was a member of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris, and after that, as General Smut's chief of staff, he visited Vienna, Prague, and Budapest when the Bolshevist Government was in power in Hungary. He then attended the Staff College until January, 1920, when he rejoined General Mun staff at Constantinople and remai ed there until the final evacuation of Constantinople in 1923. During that period he was for a time with Gen. Sir Charles Harrington, and was at first in charge of the Intelligence Branch for one year and later for two years in charge of the Operations Branch. During that time he accompanied Gen.
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