THE DARDANELLES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 8

THE DARDANELLES

THE AUSTRALIANS' COMMANDER

SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS

PARLIAMENTARY TRIBUTES 10

HIS SERVICES

(Received May 21, 10.55 a.m.) by cable—press associaiios— copyright.

MELBOURNE, May 21. In the House at a late hour Mr Fisher announced that General Bridges had succumbed to his wbunds.

Messrs Fisher > Cook and Pearce paid high tributes to his memory as a man and a soldier, and a resolution" was adopted expressing a deep sense of the loss the Commonwealth had sustained, and placing on record appreciation of General Bridges' great service in the development of the Australian defence scheme, admiration of his organisation and leadership of the forces at the Dardanelles, and tendering respectful sympathy to the family of the distinguished oriicer.

Mr Pearce announced that Colonel Legge had left Australia on the previous day to take up his .duties. It was a gratifying fact that the command would remain in the hands of an Australian officer, but he was unable to say who was commanding the forces meantime. *

The new commander (Colonel Legge) has seen lengthy military service, and served in the South Atric-an war in command of the Australian infantry. Later he was military secretary to the board of military administration, and at the time of his Dardanelles appointment was chief cf the Commonwealth general staff.