SENIOR ARMY POSTS
* CHANGES ANNOUNCED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept 21. Changes in two senior posts at Army headquarters were announced to-night > by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones). “Brigadier H, 'E. Avery, C.8.E., C.M.G., D.5.0., who is now being seconded to act as chairman of the War Assets Realisation Board, has been , quartermaster-general and a member of the Army Board since October., 1940,” said Mr Jones. “During that time he has been faced with a very . arduous task, arming, equipping, accommodating, feeding and transporting the large number of personnel required ■ for the military forces, both in New ; Zealand and overseas. He has per* formed that task with zeal and efficiency, and has not spared himself in his devotion to duty. . “Brigadier N. W. McD. Weir, C.8.E., • who recently returned from the Middle East, has been appointed quarter- . master-general and third military r member of the Army Board. ' “Brigadier L. G. Goss, who has Been serving in the Pacific, will fill the post of deputy-chief of the general staff, which has been vacant since the return ;■ of Brigadier W. G. Gentry, D.5.0., 0.8. E., to the Middle East.”
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24369, 22 September 1944, Page 4
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