Imventor of Tanks to Assist Mechanization London, Jan, 22.
The appointment of Maj.-Gen, E. A. Beck as Director of Personal Services at the War Office is gazetted to-night, as well as the appointment of Col. G. lo Q. Martel, as Deputy Director of Mechaniaation at the War Office.
Major-Gen. Beck was Brigade-Major of the Home Forces in France during the Great War and was employed with the Egyptian Army from 1909 to 1912. Col. Martel is best known ar the originator of the light tank, He made the first small fast light tank. A little later Sir John Carden took on the design of the light tanks which eventually gave the British Army better tanks in this class than that possessed by any other nation, Colonel Martel has been Administrator-Director of Mechanization at tne War Office since 1936.—Wireless through Reuter.
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