The Officer commanding the 2nd) Royal Welch Fusiliers is being promoted. LtColonel Hewitt, therefore, not to take his battalion to Hong: Kong in October (Major Hindson will, But remains at home with the view of succeeding Colonel Saunders: Knox-Gore as Assistant Director of Small Arms at the War Office at the end of December.
This will be an ideal post for him, as he isa machine gun specialist and comes to headquarters in time for: the experiment infantry" organiza~ tion, whereby his old corps, the MGC, tickers towards resuscitation by the formation of the Ist Durham Lil. Into a trial machine gun batta-Yon, It-Colonel Hewitt commanded the: ho] 46th" ING. Battalion in France and gun experience infantry command, service afloat officer, command of Domintor troops, Staff College graduate and instruc: for, qualified Imperial Defence stud-instructor in gunnery, War Office experience and tenures helpful to his new post by having been on the Sindapore Sta? and. Staff Chief in Malaya, was Machine Gun Officer to the 62 Corps and 3rd Army, as well as! Deputy Inspector of the units in the Sth Army. He has also been Instruc-for at the M.G.C, Training Centre, at Hythe and Seaford schools, and Chief Instructor of the M.G.C. Training] Group and at Netheravon. A great record with the gun, and his place undoubtedly at the War Office ducing the new experimentation.
Ching H. Q. Changes The Machine Gun Test 'The changes on the China H. Staff now stand as follows, with the dates for assuming-—'It-Colonel, H.C. Harrison GSO.1 from' March.
It-Colonel A. B. Hearle as 0.C RA. Embarks October. 16.
Li-Colonel HW. G, Seth-Smith, a" ALA. and Q. ING. in charge of Administration, from October 3.
Colonel E, St. G. Kitke, as Chief Engineer, from December 21, "Colonel F. P, Nosworthy, to command the 5th Brigade at Aldershot from March, in place of Brigadier Fortune, who. is to be promoted, 1
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