THE SERVICES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 16 December 1929, Page 22

THE SERVICES.

CAPTAIN D. B. NORTH. CrßOl* OCR OW* COa&BSFOVDENT.) LONDON, November 7. Captain Dudley North, C.5.1., C.M.G., , C.*V.O., E.N., has been appointed Director of the Operations Division of the Naval Staff. He has been Commanding Officer H.M.S. Tiger, serving with the battle-cruiser squadron, Atlantic Fleet. Captain North entered the Navy in 1895, and attained his present rank in December, 1919. He was first lieutenant of the battle-cruiser New Zealand at the Heligoland action, and commander of the same'*ship at the battles of the Dogger Bank and Jutland. In 1917-18 he was naval assistant to the Fourth and the Third Sea Lords. Captain North is an, extra equerry to the Prince of Wales, whom he accompanied on his Empire and foreign tours. He will be succeeded in the Tiger by Captain A. E. F. Bedford, now Commodore of Devonport Barracks. November Command Change. "The Times" announces that on November 2nd, Lieut.-Col. John A. Brooke went to the half-pay list on relinquishing command of the sth Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. He is one of the few officers who have served with the Militia and the Kegular infantry, cavalry, and artillery. He became a subaltern in the 3rd Battalion, the King's Shropshire Light Infantry at the end of the- Boer Campaign after leaving Eton, and with two and a half years' Militia service was gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers, joining the 2nd Battalion at Aldershot. When ' this regiment lost two battalions by reduction he was transferred to the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons in Egypt. He was a staff captain with the heavy artillery of the Australian and New Zealand Corps, and the conclusion of hostilities found him filling an instructorship in English at a French military school. On the amalgamation of the sth and 6th Dragoons he remained in the regiment with a majority in view of command, and was appointed in 1925. He brought the regiment from India to York last year, when it was renamed with the composite title of the sth Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Brevet Lieut.-Col. Boger Evans, M.C., Royal Horse Guards, a major on the selected list, takes over command. He is in the Directorate of Military Training and staff omeer to Major-General A. E. W. Harman, C.8., D.5.0., the Inspector of Cavalry. He was formerly in the Honourable Artillery Company an d the 7th Queen's Own Hussars.