RETIRING ARMY CHIEF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 January 1936, Page 3

RETIRING ARMY CHIEF

SHORT TENURE OF OFFICE (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 12th December.. Sir '.Archibald (Montgomery-Massmg-berd, the retiring Chief of the Imperial General Staff who became a lieldMarshal last July, is 64. An old Carthusian, he went to “The Shop at Woolwieli, and served with distinction in the Boer War. During the Great War he was mentioned nine times m despatches, entering hostilities as a major and attaining major-general s rank before the Armistice. As a Chief of Staff he had few equals, and served the late Lord Rawlinson in that capacity in 1918, when the Fourth Army covered itself with glory. His tenure oi the supreme position at Lie War Oflicc ‘ been compaiativcly short, hut its importance has been intensive. He carried forward the mechanisation of the Army initiated by his predecessor, Lord Milne. When he lays down office cany next year the comparable value of i our small iirmv will be on the same plane ■is that which the late Lord A pres took to France in 1914-“ The Old Contemptibles.”