NEW COMMANDER.
N.Z. NAVAL STATION. Capt. the Hon. E. R. Drummond To be Next Commodore. APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED. United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. Captain the Hon. E. R. Drummond, M.V.0., R.N., has been appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Burges Watson as commodore of the New Zealand station. Ho will take up his post on April 24, 1935. Captain Drummond was born in 1884, and is the third son of Viscount Strathallan. He received his early training on H.M.S. Britannia, and was made a lieutenant in 1906. During the early part of the war he served as second in command on the cruiser Caroline, thence in the cruiser Cardiff. He was appointed commander in 1918, and captain in 1926, when he was chief of staff to the Com-mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. In the same year he was appointed to command H.M.S. Delhi, and he is at present in command of H.M.S. Dispatch.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVX, Issue 268, 12 November 1934, Page 7
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152NEW COMMANDER. Auckland Star, Volume LVX, Issue 268, 12 November 1934, Page 7
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