NEW GOVERNOR.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19775, 13 November 1929, Page 11

NEW GOVERNOR.

ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE MADE. SIR HUGH TRENCHARD MENTIONED. (CKTTKD PRESS ASSOCIATION —-BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, November 11. It is understood that- New Zealand's ijcw Governor-General has been appointed and that an announcement will shortly be made simultaneously in Britain and New Zealand. Official circles neither deny nor eonfirm that Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenclmrd has been appointed. Hugh Montague Trenchard. tho British Air Marshal, was born in February, 1873, and entered the Army in 1893, serving later in tho South African war. From 1902 to 1904 he was with the Canadian Scouts, and then from 1904 to 1906 with the West African Frontier Force. He commanded tho North Nigeria Regiment from 1908 to 1913. During that period he tcjok part in three campaigns. Alter returning home he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and became assistant commandant at Upavon in 1913. On the outbreak of the war he was at first left in charge of the central depot at Farnborough. but before the end of 1911 he was sent to the front and soon afterwards became head of the military wing of the air forces under Sir John French. This post he h£ld with success for nearly three years. He was promoted breveteolonel in 1915, and major-general early in 1917. On the formation of the Air Ministry at the end of that year he was brought home to become chief of staff, but resigned the post in the following April. A few weeks Inter he was given command of the "Independent Air Force," which carried out extensive raids in Germany in the closing months of the' war, and had planned a great air attack, which was not made in consequence of the Armistice.

had been made a K.C,JJ. in 191S, and at the distribution of war honours he was given a baronetcy and a grant of £IO,OOO. He was gazetted air vice-marshal, on the introduction of the new designations of rank in the service, and in 1919 was promoted air marshal and appointed chief of the air staff. In 1922 he was again promoted, becoming air chief marshal. He is an hon. LL-D, of Cambridge. _ _ .:-r-r V - ,r