GENERAL'S CAREER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 83, 18 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL'S CAREER.

DISTINGUISHED NEW ZEALANDER iP«r Press Association.. AUCKLAND, January 17. Although Major-General J. A. Douglas, C.M.G., CLE., is almost a stranger to New Zealand, he was born at Dunedin in 1862. He left the Dominion when he was a boy, and is now mating his first return visit, airiving by the Niagara to-day. General Douglas has had a distinguished military career, and lias served in many dangerous expeditions on the Indian frontier. During the Great War he served in Mesopotamia, Persia and Afghanistan. A long list of distinctions, including being mentioned in dispatches four times', tells of brave military service. General Douglas was educated at Haileybury, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was given his commission with the Dorset Regiment in 1883. and soon gained promotion after being transferred to India, where he has 1 spent many years. From 1903 to 1907 be was military attach 9at Teheran. He was at the relief of Pekin in 1900. From 1911 to 1913 he commanded the 39th K.G.O. Central Horse in Persia. These are but a few of of the expeditions and positions with which General Douglas has been associated. In additions to his British distinctions he holds Persian and Serbian orders.