Adjutant General
Brigadier H. A. Purcell, who has been appointed Adjutant - General and second military member of the Army Board, succeeds Brigadier A. H. Andrews, who retires on January IL Brigadier Purcell was
commissioned in 1935 after joining the Canterbury Regiment three years earlier. » He served with the 27th Battalion in the Middle East
Since the war Brigadier Purcell has been camp commandant at Waiouru, Southern Military District chief of staff, Singapore liaison officer, and has represented New Zealand In the S.E.A.T.O. Military Planning Office in Bangkok.— (P.A.)
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31261, 6 January 1967, Page 10
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