GENERAL LORD HORNE.
RETIREMENT FROM SERVICE. (British Official Wireless.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY. Feb. 22. General Lord Home, having attained the age limit, has retired ,from the service. He was a noted authority on artillery and during the war developed the creeping barrage system. From 1916 he commanded the First Army on the Western Front and received a peerage at the end of the war. Lord Home was born in 1861, and was at Harrow and Woolwich, and joined the Artillery in 1880. He saw service in Africa in 1900, and held various commands in the war, including the defence of the Suez Canal. He has been on retired pay since 1926.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19879, 24 February 1928, Page 11
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