SOLDIER-AUTHOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 11

SOLDIER-AUTHOR

GENERAL CROZIER DEAD CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS LONDON, August 31 The death has occurred of BrigadierGeneral F. P. Grozier, author of the war story "A Brass Hat in No Man's Land," and of the more recent book "The Men I Killed." Brigadier-General Crozier was born in Bermuda in. 1879. Is. 1898 he went to Ceylon and took up tea planting. - He-joined the Ceylon Light Infaritiy. Later he served in the Boer "War in South Africa, and subsequent operations in Kululand, and then wept to

Canada. Returning to Europe on the outbreak of the Great War he went to the front, rising to the rank of '-Brigadier-General and later becoming military adviser to the Lithuanian Government. After undertaking a special mission to Latvia and Estonia in 1920 he resigned his commission and -went to Ireland, where he raised the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary known as the "Black and 'Tans." Hp resigned in February, 1921. General Crozier's book, "The Men I Killed," aroused the bitter ire of many British ex-servicemen by its allegations of shooting of men by officers for cowardice, and an inquiry has been asked for by the Cardiff branch of tho British Legion. "