AUSTRALIAN COMMANDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN COMMANDS.

MANY PROMOTIONS. LONDON, June 20

Australian force ordei's of June 4 contain, ,tJie foßpivinjj temporary appointments: — . . ..

Lieutenant-General Sir John Moinash oommands the corps m place of General Sir William Birdterood, who hag beeii ap'poiaited tempor)aa'il|yi to tooralmand «n army. .......

Major-General White is to "be chief of staff m General Bhxhrood's army. General Rosenthal will command a division m the place of General Smyth, V.C, who returns to British duty. | .. General Geliibrandl will command a j division, m pjiice t>f "General Moiwh. Lieutenant-Cfoloue^/.p. F. Phi Mips and S. M. Anderson will become 'Artillery Brigadier-Generals. Lieut. -Colonel Blarney has - been promoted- to Brigadier-General, and wi:ll succeed Generail White. Lieutenaht-Cblonel J. C Stewart 'will becewno a Brigadier-General, succeeding General Hobkirk; .»■•■.. Lieutcriant-Cc-lonel H. A. Goddard will become a Brigadier-Genera 1 !, succeeding General . Rosen thai. Lieutenant-Colonel. Leune is to be promoted to Bricadier-General, succee'eding Gtineral ' G.elli i D:rao(id. ? .Major G. F.. Wi&ck will become a Colonel, and will succeed Brigadier-Gen-era! Blarney. Major A. Si Allen will become n Lieutenant-Colonel* and Will succeed .B, rjgadierrQenei'al Leanc .ms battalion commiandei 1 . . THIS 2*EW CHIHF. ..:",■:.. : /-SYDXBY, Juiije 21. Major-Gemei'al Sir John Monasli, K.C.B r , who has been. appointed to succeed. J-ueutenant-Generai Sir Williaun Birdwood as .officer commanding tJie Australian Imperial Force m- France, has had. a most distinguished military career. He is 53 years of ago, andi is tlie most representative., of .the mamy Australian Jews who have enlisted, lie has already temporarily eommandedi the Army Corps . during Birdwood's absence, andj .is k,noVn..ip b^'^n- high favoi* witl: Sir Dta-uglas Haig. He obtaiuied the reputation •a«r jtlhe iqi'ganispg genius of .the ; Third .Division, of being the .only ifival of ;Brigadier-General C B. B. WJirite ? C.M.G^,C.B., as Australia's great • soldier. M!ajor-Gen«rail Monasli, \vfoo wa« educated at Scotch College (^ielbourne} , showed a keen interest m. jnilitai-y affairs at am eai'lv I age, his first rank m the Commonwealth j Forces, which, he joined m 1887, being I that of lieutenant. He rose to be colonel m Qommaii4 of tlie 13th Infan^iy Brigade, compsrisiiig Praihran, ISouth Melbournie, and Albert Park. Immediately after war broke out, he acted as ohief censor for Aus^ral^a, until he> obtained his brigade command. He is married, and I . is, a, ciyil, engineer b^ ,prQfession,' tcpizf h<ime being, at H« is aj^aiJiuate^in law ami' ettgineeriiig of the Melbourne University, anii is a member of its council. "" ' '"

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