NEW NAVAL COMMODORE.
■ THE DOMINION DIVISION. ARRIVAL HERE NEXT YEAR. The appointment is announced of Captain Fischer Burges Watson, D.5.0., at commodore of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy to succeed RearAdmiral Geoffrey Blake. Captain Burges Watson is expected to reach New Zealand about April of next year and RearAdmiral Blake will return to England shortly after his arrival. In May of last year Captain Burges Watson was appointed flag captain of H.M.S. Nelson, flagship of the Atlantic Fleet, after being naval assistant to Admiral Hodges, Second Sea Lord. He was born in 1884 and is the eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Burges Watson. He was a. midshipman on H.M.S. Britannia in 1900 and a sub-lieutenant in 1903. He served on the Royal yacht in 1905, being promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Captain Burges Watson became lieu-tenant-commander in 1913 and the following year he was made commander. He attained tho rank of captain in 192 L
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 12
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