FINE WAR RECORD

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 8

FINE WAR RECORD

Distinguished Soldier On Visit To Dominion

By Tclegtarh—Press Association. Auckland, December 17. Partly with the hope of meeting a number of New Zealand soldiers, who served with the Hawke’s Bay regiment during the Great War, Colonel B. H. Waters-Taylor, C.8.E., who has a distinguished record, arrived at Auckland by the cruise-liner Strathaird. Colonel Taylor met many of the New Zealand and .Australian troops, who were in Cairo in 1916. Before the Great War Colonel Taylor spent some years in South Africa taking part in the Boer War with the Cape Mounted Riflemen and receiving a commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment for service in the field. Later he saw service in Gold Coast territories and in Nigeria.

After being with the New Zealand and jlustrallan forces in 1915, he was appointed to the staff of the Delta and Western Force of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and he went with Lord Allenby into Palestine, where for a time lie was Acting-Governor of Jerusalem, before being made Governor of Galilee. He was then made Chief-of-Staff in Palestine until the end of the war. Later he commanded the Prince of Wales Volunteers in South Lancashire, retiring in 1931.