ALLIED REGIMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 302, 21 December 1932, Page 3

ALLIED REGIMENTS.

QUEEN'S OWN AND CANTERBURY. OFFICER BRINGS LETTER. The Queen's Own Royal "West Kent Regiment and the Canterbury Regiment, New Zealand, are "allied regiment*,' , and Captain A. John Wilson, who arrived in Auckland from London by the Rangitata this morning as advance agent for a party of English public school boys who are to tour the Dominion early in the New Year, brought a photograph and a letter, which le has been asked to present to the commanding officer of the Canterbury Regiment at Christchurch. The letter carried by Captain Wilson is from Licutenant-General O'Dowda, C.8., C.5.1., colonel of the Queen's Own, and the photograph is from the officers of the 2nd Battalion at Ald«rshot. Captain Wilson was educated at Winchester College, and spent eight months at the Royal Military College. He proceeded on active service in October, 1910, being then only 18 years old. In March, 11)18, he wae wounded, and was awarded the Military Cross. At the end of the war he was awarded the Croix de Guerre -avec-Palmes. In October, 1919, Captain Wilson went to India with the Ist Battalion of the Queen's Own. In 1922 and 1923 he was brigade signal officer to the sth and 7th Brigades of the Razmak Field Force, Waziristan, and during that period was mentioned in dispatches. He retired from the Army three years ago and went to Germany last year. While in Berlin last month he received an invitation to return at once and act as advance agent for the school Empire tour.