BRITISH ARMY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 11

BRITISH ARMY.

EFFECT OF MECHANISATION. CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATION. Sun. LONDON, Sept. G. The political correspondent of the Evening Standard says he understands that the revolutionary changes in administration which are due to the mechanisation of the Army, under which the mechanical engineering of the whole Army will be centralised under Lieutenant-General Sir Webb Gillman as Master of Ordnance, have been followed by much reshuffling of appointments and some resignations, including that of Colonel Niblet, of the Army Service Corps, who deveolped the six-wheeled motors. Other prominent Service Corps officers win be transferred to India. These-develop-ments are, he says v a sequel to discussions which have lasted for months regarding the proposed change of methods which the Army Council advocated in the interests of economy and efficiency, and to which the Secrtary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans has agreed. General Gillman will, from October 1, be responsible for the tanks and dragons, the design of guns, the fighting devices and the experimental research in which the three departments are at present concerned.

Lieutenant-General Sir Webb Gillman was till recently Inspector of Artillery at the Wni Office. He entered the Artillery in 1889 ; and served through the war in South Africa, and in the Great War, when he was promoted to be major-general. From 1920-24 ho was Commandant of the Royal Military Academy.