WELL-DESERVED PROMOTION
LEGATHN GUARD COMMANDER AT AIDIS ABABA (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, July 3, (Received July 4, at noon.) The brevet promotion to the rank of • lieutenant colonel of Major Charter, officer commanding the British Legation guard at Addis Ababa, is announced. The award is in recognition of the admirable way in which’ he performed his difficult duties, particularly during the period before the arrival of the Italians, when the town was in the hands of the mob and the guard evacuated to safety the personnel of several other legations at Addi* Ababa.
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Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 15
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97WELL-DESERVED PROMOTION Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 15
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