then, returning to France, he commanded the ith. Army" Corps, the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and the 3rd Army. He retired in For his fine work in the Dardanelles, Sir Julian Byng was awarded the KEB. and promotion to Bue gaeller-General, He was mentioned dispatches nine times and also awarded the K.CMG. At the close of the War, he was promoted Genral, received the thanks of Parliament, and was created a Baron with a grant of £30,000. "He was created baron in "1019, made Governor-General of Canada, 1921-1026, ind was raised to the rank of Viscount in 1928. He was also Honorary General of the Canadian Mult Lord Byng was known in the Army by the phrase "Swift and Sure. The young, handsome and fiery Byng was said to be the origin Colonel Rendezvous Wells's "Mr. Britling Sees It Through." He watched most carefully every, deta of development warfare wherever" he went, it Was said in the Army that "what Byng did not know about modern soldiering was not worth knowing." the course of the first days of the Battle of Arras in the Spring of 1917, the Canadians carried Hill 145, and' with it gained the whole of Vimy Ridge which was the immediate key to the area. Altogether, in the space of three days, over 12,000 prisoners and 180 guns' were caf tured, and the guns were speedily turned into British weapons. Byng formed a "Ist, 2nd atid 3rd Par Germanic grotip," out of the batteries which fell to his share.
On November 7, 1028, Sir William Harwood ended his career as Commissioner of the Metropolitan. Police and, on the following day. Vise Byng, aged 66, reigned in his stead, Tt was regarded as a compliment that a former Governor-General of Canada should enlist in this service, It is not given to many to start a new career at 66 and it ig not the east memorable achievement of the rout soldier that, as before, he was able to render his King and country a truly great service, requiring. discrimination, humanity, and an inflexible will. He retired' at the end of September 1981, and was succeeded in October of the same year by Lord Trenchard.
Lord Byng married. In 1902, Marie Evelyn, only child of the Hon. Sir Richard Moreton, K.C.V.O. He leaves no heir—Reuter, who gained fame as the Commander of Germany's Southern Army in the Great War, died here to-day at the age of 83.
The general retired from public life in 1913, a disappointed man, suffering from a sense of injustice and ashamed to wear his uniform. With
however, he again dopned is gen-the advent of Herr Hitler. to power, eral's uniform and appeared at pub-Vic meetings of the War Veterans'
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