LIBERATOR OF PALESTINE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 13 November 1925, Page 7

LIBERATOR OF PALESTINE.

THE GREAT LORD ALLENBY.; COMING TO NEW ZEAIAND.! I HUMAN PAGE IN HISTORY. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 12. Field-Marshal Viscount and Lady I Allenby are embarking at Marseilles on November 27 for Australia. Thence they proceed tc» New Zealand, arriving in Auckland <m January 26, 1026.—(A. and N.Z. Cabled The famous field-marshal who is coming to New Zealand may be regarded in the same category as Jellicoe, Beatty, and Haig—one of the greatest British captains of all time. He was a Hiiileybury boy, and went to Sandhurst, being gazetted out to the Inniskillen Dragoons. He began his active service career in Bechuanaland in 1884, and has been in every conflict in which British forces have taken part-since. H& was in command of a- cavalry brigade in France in 1915, and commander-in-chief of the Third Army in 1915-17. Plis remarkable work as C.I.C. of the British Expeditionary Force in Egypt from thence to the close of the war is his claim 'to immortality. He hae had honours slibwered upon him, and as High Commissioner in Egypt he showed administrative faculties rare in hard-hitting soldiers. He is a man of simple tastes and desires, and is coming to the Antipodes because his hard service has weakened him. He is a colonel of the First Life Guards and of the Fifth Lancers, and is incidentally the Lord Stick-in-Wait-ing. The famous liberator is 64 years old. Lady Allenby is a daughter of Mr. H. E. Chapman, of Donhead House, Salisbury.