BRIGADIER A. H. ANDREWS
Appointment As Quartermaster j (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. Brigadier A. H. Andrews, at present commander of the Southern Military District, will take over as Quarter--master-General of the New Zealand Army on November 30. He will succeed Brigadier R. B. Dawson, who in October will become commander of 28th Commonwealth Brigade in Malaya. Colonel L. A. Kermode, Deputy-quarter-master-General, will act as the QMG in the meantime
Brigadier Andrews, who joined the Regular Force in 1936, is an engineer graduate of Canterbury University. He went to the Middle East 1 with the First Echelon in 1940, where he became Deputy-Assistant Director of Ordnance Services and later commander, Royal Electrical, and Mechanical Engineers in the New Zealand Division. 1 After the war he was the Director of Ordnance Services, and in 1950 became Deputy - Quartermaster-Gen-eral at Army Headquarters. He was commander of the Central Military District from 1954-57. and senior Army liaison officer at New Zealand House, London, until he became commander of Southern Military District in 1960 ■ Brigadier Andrews was a well-known Rugby and criket player before the war.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29890, 2 August 1962, Page 6
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