OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20710, 7 May 1929, Page 9

OBITUARY

SIR FREDERICK STOPFORD. , FORMER CORPS COMMANDER. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Tclegrapti—Copyright. I JjONDON, May 5. The death la announced of Sir Frederick Stopford, who commanded the oth Corps at Snvla Bay. He was criticised by Sir lan Hamilton for failing to forestall the eneniy occupation of , their high ground on August 7.—Australian Press Association—United Service. Lieutenant-general Sir Frederick Stopford, who was 75 years of age, was a son of the fourth Earl of Courtown. He entered the army in 1871, and saw service in Egypt, the Sudan, and Ashanti, and in the South African War was military secretary to Sir Rcdvers Buffer.. In 1915 he was in command of an army corps in Gallipoli, and had charge of the operations at Suvla Bay. He was created K.C.M.G. in 1900, rnd promoted lieuten-ant-general in 1909. He was Director of Military Training in Britain from 1904 to 1906. , COLONEL LUDENDORFFI GERMAN, MILITARY LEADER. SHANGHAI, May 6, (Received May 7, at 1.30 a.m.) Colonel Max Bauer Ludendorff, chief of staff during the Great War, died in Shanghai Isolation Hospital from smallpox. A few months ago he was appointed head of 30 German military experts for the purpose of reorganising the Nationalist army at Nanking. —Australian Press Association. ,