NEW COMMANDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1946, Page 2

NEW COMMANDER

DOMINION BRIGADE IN JAPAN RESHUFFLEEXPECTED (P,A.) WELLINGTON, April 18. Brigadier A. E. Conway, 0.8. E., N.Z.S.C.,.Adjutant-General and second military member of the Army Board, will retire soon, and it is lieved that he will be succeeded by Brigadier K. L. Stewart, C.8.E., D. 5.0., present commander of the New Zealand Brigade Group in Japan. Brigadier Stewart’s successor is Colonel D. T. Maxwell, N.Z.S.C.

Brigadier Stewart is expected to return to New Zealand shortly, and Colonel Maxwell has already left the Dominion to take up fiis command. Colonel Maxwell is 47. years old and is a son of Mr. A. C. Maxwell, of 60 Fisher avenue, Beckenham. He received his primary education at the East Christchurch School and later went to Christchurch Boys’ High School, where he was awarded the Deans Memorial Medal, an award demanding a high standard in edutcation and athletic games.

He was awarded a scholarship at Duntroon, from which he graduated, and for some time afterwards he was attached to the New Zealand staff’. Later he served in India and China with the crack English regiment, the Durham Light Infantry. He was at Camberley Staff College, England, for two years. When war broke out he was sent to the Middle East with the First Echelon as Assistant-Adjutant General and Quartermaster-General. After more than three years’ service in the Middle East he returned to New Zealand and was placed in command of the Palmerston Staff College. When this camp was closed down he was transferred to Tren* tham.

Colonel Maxwell’s only brother, Douglas, was killed on Gallipoli in 1915.