Air-Marshal Lord Trenchard has been appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in suecestion to Viscount Byng.
Lord Trenchard, who is 68 years Jof age, is the first member of the Royal Air Force to hold the post lof Commissioner of the Metropolitan Viscount Byng, the ret missioner, possesses 9 di war record. He won great fame as Jo commander at Vimy Ridge. At the end of the War he was thanked by Parliament for his distinguished service and granted £30,000.. Retiring from the Army in 1919, he was appointed to succeed the Duke lof. Devonshire as Governor-General Jof Canada in June, 1921. Viscount [Byng took over his present post [from Sir W. Harwood in 1928, The new Commissioner entered the Army at the age of 20 and served in South Africa. A pioneer in military aviation, he became commandant of the Central Flying School in 1914, and did valuable work in the War. He received in August, 1990, a barony with a grant lof £10,000.—Reuter.
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