London, June 6.
Field-Marshal Viscount' Byng of Vimy, "ces, come, M0," the Gistinguished British soldier here to-day after an operation. He was 73 years of age.
Julian Hedworth George, Ist Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-Te-Spken, Essex, was the seventh son of the second Bari of Strafford, and was born on September 11, 1862. Not only did he have a uniformly successful career as a great soldier, culminating in the defeat of the Germans at Vimy Ridge, but, at the age of 68, began work again, when he was asked to assume the responsibility of Commissioner of" London Police, The outline of his military career runs as follows:—He joined the 10th Hussars in 1983, became Major 1898 and Colonel in 1901, having served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1884, and in the South African War, holding various posts at Home, he commanded the Army of Occupation in Exypt, 1912-1914, and in the Great War commanded, successively, the 8rd Cavalry Division and the Cavalry Corps, in the oth Army Corps In
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