FORCES IN EGYPT
COMMANDER APPOINTED GENERAL CORNWALL RUGBY, June 9. The War Office announces that Lieu-tenant-general Sir James MarshallCornwall, whose appointment as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief appeared in the London Gazette on June 3. has assumed his appointment as G.0.C.-in-Chief of the British troops in Egypt, which is a component part of General Wavell's command in the Middle East. Lieutenant-general Mar-shall-Cornwall, who is 54, was chief of the British military mission to the Egyptian Army in 1937, and since the beginning of hostilities has spent much time at British General Headquarters, Cairo. In recent staff talks with Turkey he represented the Middle East Command. From 1928 to 1932 he was British Military Attache at Berlin. When the present war broke out he was Director-general of Air and Coast Defence at the War Office.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24630, 11 June 1941, Page 5
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