MILITARY TRAINING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 13

MILITARY TRAINING

CAMBERLEY COLLEGE COURSE CAPTAIN CLIFTON'S SUCCESS Advice that he has been successful in the entrance examination to the military staff college, Camberley, England, has been received by Captain G. H. Clifton, M.C., of Auckland, adjutant to the Ist Field Company and Northern Signal Depot. Captain Clifton will leave for England on November 29, arriving in time to commence his two years' course in January.

A competitive examination for candidates for Camberley is held annually. The papers are set in London for the whole of the British Empire, and one officer from New Zealand is selected each year. The only two graduates of Camberley in the Northern Command at present are Colonel J. E. Duigan, officer commanding the Northern Command, and Major R. Miles, general staff officer.

Captain Clifton was born at Napier, and after attending the Pahiatua District High School, he entered the Royal Military College of Australia at Duntroon in 1915. At the conclusion of a four years' course he saw service with the Ist King George's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners on the North-west Indian frontier in 1919 and 1920, and was awarded the Military Cross. Captain Clifton returned to New Zealand, and in 1924 went to England to take special courses at the' School of Military Engineering, Chatham, at Aldershot and with the Royal Air Force at Farnborough, where new machines are tested. He came to New Zealand again in 1926, and was posted to his present position. While Captain Clifton is absent, he will be relieved by Captain A. W. Greville, while Captain D. H. W. H. Donaldson will replace Captain Greville.