The Archive · 1939

Secunderabad Brigade

Group Captain H. M. K. Brown to command the R.A.F. station Kai Tak, Hongkong.

The coming China appointments now are Col. Sir John Laurie to the Tientsin Area, Col. A. L Neville, G.S.O. Col. G. E. Grimsdale, G.S.O.I, Col T. McLeod. C.R.A.

Lt.-Gen. Sir B. Sergison-Brooks has retired. He commanded the Independent Brigade in China in 1927.

Major Humpherson of the R.A.S.C., officer in charge of barracks on the Canal, has retired. He was made a Quartermaster while serving with the Shanghai Defence Force.

Major-Gen. Sir John Duncan, who commanded the Shaforce in 1927 has left the Reserve at 67.

Brigadier F. K. Simmons will vacate his Palestine appointment in May and assumes command in Shanghai on June 5, on which day Col. D. F. McConnel succeeds him as staff chief at Jerusalem H.Q.,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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