A GALLANT OFFICER.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6964, 18 January 1918, Page 4

A GALLANT OFFICER.

In the couree of a letter to Mrs King, of Wellington (widow of Lieutenant Colonel G. A. King, U.S.O. and Croix de Guerre), with reference to the death of her husband, Major-General Godley, K.CM.G., C.8., says:— "I must write a line to tell you how deeply I sympathise with you in the loia of your gallant husband, ur.d how much we all deplore bis loss. Be had proved himself on active service a soldier of conspicuous courage and ability, and in the various responsible staff appointments and commands which he has held in the N.Z.E.F., he has invariably won the complete confidence of his superiors and the esteem and affections of his juniors and those under bis command. Colonel King was an officer whom New Zealand can ill-afford to lose, and for myself I have lost a subordinate wbo, from the time he joined tha New Zealand Staff Corps, has always served me most loyally and faithfully and has always been one of its very best officers, On all Bides I bear the mo3t profound expressions of regret st his lose, and I know that they Bre amply justified. He wbs killed while in command of his bsttelion in the attack, scd if he bad to riie from what I know of him be would have preferred eucb a soldier's desth. With my deepest condolence believe me yours sincerely—-(Sgd.) Alex. J. Gcdley/' The late Lieutenant-Colonel King was when in New Zealani in command of No. 4 (Weikato) Group Area and was killed in action on October 12 last just after he bad taken over the commaEd of the Ist Canterbury Irtantry Battalion in France. In lart New Yeßr's Honours bis name appeared od the list of offitera had bsen swarded a ber to the D.S.O.