BRITISH OFFICERS
army exercises in j BELGIUM: BRUSSELS, October 10. i Fifty British officers are at present stationed at Middelkerke, and are engaged, in tactical exercises. They arc Under the command of Major-General W. 0. S. Bobbie, commandant of the School of Military Engineering at (,Latham, who is accompanied by Major De La P. Garj forth, his secretary. | The area of the exercises is beyond ; N ieuport. It is understood that these exercises Wave been authorised by the Belgian ! Government, and are on the linos of a ! scheme drawn „n in 1917 by the British • War yTiice with a view to military t operations o u the Belgian coast at this ■ spot. ! Middelkerke, a town in West Flanders was occ.rmed by the Germans in November, lul4.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 2
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