AUSTRALIAN GENERAL FOR WASHINGTON
(Rec. 11 a.m.) CANBERRA, July 31. The Chief of the Australian General Staft, Lieutenant-General L. Sturdee, is to be sent to Washington as head of an Australian military mission, .it is announced by the Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin. Lieutenant-General Sturdee will be. succeeded by Lieuten-ant-General J. D. Northcott, who now holds an important command. ■ Lielt.-General E. K. • Smart, who recently went to Washington as head of a military mission, will go to London to tak6 a similar position there. Mr. Curtin' said' the changes were being' made with a view' to strengthening the Australian service representation in the matter of higher strategy relating to the conduct of the war. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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