NEW GOVERNOR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 8

NEW GOVERNOR

SIR CYRIL NEWALL. DISTINGUISHED AIRMAN. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 4. It is officially announced that the King has approved of the appointment of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, G.C.8., C.M.G., C.8.E., A.M., to bo Governor-General of New Zealand in succession to Colonel the lit. Hon. Viscount Galway, P.C., G.C.M.G., D. 5.0., 0.8. E., whose term of office will expire in February, 1941. His Majesty has also approved of the promotion of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Cyril Newall to be Marshal of the Royal Air Force.

The Empire’s Commander-in Chief in the Air, Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall, has been Chief of the Air Staff for the last three years, lie was born in 1886 in an Indian hill station where his father, the late Lieut.-Colonel WP. Newall, of the Indian Army, was posted. He was educated at Bedford School and Sandhurst. In 1905 he entered the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. with which he took part in the Zakkha Kel Expedition in 1908. The next year he transferred to the Ghurkas and served with them till the war broke out. In 1911, home on leave, he first interested himself in flying, and took his Royal Aero Club certificate as a pilot. Only five pilots who gained their “tickets” in those days are still serving. Early in the Great War he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, and was given command of a night in the No. 1 Squadron. There were then only about two score machines with the British Expeditionary Force, and they were used for reconnaissance. I>y 1915 he was squadron-commander, and led the No. 12 Squadron for two years In 1917 he was given command ot the No. 41 Bombing Squadron, then the spear-joint of the British offensive air-arm. Ho emerged from the war having been three times mentioned in dispatches, decorated C.M.G., C.8.E., Albert Medal Ist Class, Brevet-Major, and Officer of the Legion of Honour, Crown of Italy,' and Order of Leopold of Belgium, and Belgian Croix de Guorre.

A GALLANT ACT. The Albert Medal was awarded for his action when fire broke out in an R.F.C. bomb-store in 1916, and 'he and a mechanic climbed on to the root and played a hose, through a hole burned by the flames, on tp 200 u highexplosive bombs below. Afterward he entered the building with three others and put out the fire'. , After the war he transferred to the R.A.F. and held a number of important staff appointments. In 1937 he became Chief of the Air Staff. In 192he married May Dulcie Wendell, but his wife died two years later. Ho married again in 1925, Olive Tennyson Foster, the daughter of Mrs Francis Storcr Eaton, Boston, Lmted States. He has two daughters and a son.