OFFICIAL TO RETIRE
SIR COLIN KEPPEL posr IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (Received July 28, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. July 27 When Parliament is adjourned for the summer recess at the end of next week the House of Commons will lose the services of a noted official in Sir Colin Keppel, Serjeant-at-Arms. He is retiring after holding the post for 20 years. The Serjeant-at-Arms is both a King's offirier and the servant of the House of Commons. Sir Colin Keppel was appointed Ser-jeant-at-Arms in the House of Commons in 1915. He was born in 1862 and joined the Navy as midshipman during the Egyptian war of 1882. He served with the Naval Brigado in the Sudan with the Nile Expedition, 1884-85; was lent 'So the Egyptian Government for service on the Nile 1897-98, commanded a gunboat flotilla and was mentioned in despatches after the occupation of Berber, and also after the fall of Khartoum. He retired in 1917 with the rank of admiral.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22173, 29 July 1935, Page 10
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