OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22727, 3 June 1939, Page 15

OBITUARY

■"—& " MR A. T. LEEDS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NELSON. June 2. Mr A. T. Leeds, who had been assistant city engineer in Nelson for the last 12 vears. and had been appointed acting-city engineer for 12 months _ni succession to Mr J. C-, Littlejohn, wno resigned, died suddenly late this afteinoon when concluding a speech at a fathering of the council s L affs to s a y "ood-bye to Mr Littlejohn. It appeared to those present that Mr Leeds was seeking a final word to conclude his remarks when he suddenly collapsed. Mr Leeds came to Nelson from AmKland. He held a commission m the New Zealand Engineering Corps at the U He leaves a widow and two young children. SIR WILLIAM MARSHALL . (INDEPENDENT CABLE SERVICE.) (Received June 2, 7.10 p.rn.) PARIS, June 1. The death from heart failure is announced of Lieutenant-General Sir William Rains Marshall. Lieutenant-General Sir William Raine Marshall had a long and distinguished career as a military officer. He served first with the Malakand Frontier Force on the North-West Frontier in India, from 1897 to 1898, and was awarded the Military Medal with two clasps. He next served in South Africa and was wounded twice and twice mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted successively from lieutenant to lieutenant-colonel, and received the Queen’s Medal with three clasps and the King’s Medal with two clasps. , , .. In the Great War he commanded the First Sherwood Foresters in France, in 1914-15, and the Eighty-seventh Brigade of the Twenty-ninth Division at Gallipoli. He was promoted to majorgeneral and commanded successively the Forty-second, Twenty-ninth, and Fifty-third Divisions, being present at the original landing and evacuation. At Salonika, in 1916, he commanded the Twenty'-seventh Division, and in, Mesopotamia he was commanding officer of the Expeditionary Force, 1917 to 1919. He was wounded twice, seven times mentioned in dispatches, and promoted to lieutenant-general. He also received Serbian and French honours. From 1919 to 1923 he was Officer Commanding the Southern Command in India. He retired in 1924.