FATHER OF ALDERSHOT TATTOO
resigning from the army. Major-general J. C. Harding-Newraan, who was in charge of administration Ah dershot Command from 1927 to 1930, and had much to do with making the Aidershot torchlight tattoo the great spectacle jt is in these days, has sent in his papers, with a request to bo placed on the retired lislja The general, who is colonel of the Essex Regiment, said recently: “ Two years ago I had a difference of opinion with others at Aldershot over the tattoo, which I had run for four years. It concerned the methods of traffic for the car parks, which the Royal Automobile Club conducted under our direction. X have disagreed with seniors about an arrangement important to all army organisation, and have resigned. . , . _ . “The tattoo is now a much larger affair than when I was first associated with it, and it has developed into a national show. It involves an immense amount of work and organisation. I hope its present success will continue.” , • General Hardmg-Newman is 58, and served with great distinction in the South Africa and European Wars.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21772, 11 October 1932, Page 11
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