OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 22499, 8 December 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY

GENERAL VON HUTIER. SERVICE DURING THE WAR. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Berlin, December 6. The death is announced of General Oskar von Hutier. General von Hutier was born in August. 1857 at Erfurt. His father was a major the son of a French family which had settled in Germany before the war of 1870-1.. • His grandfather in fact was a French officer, but his father entered the Prussian service and in 1869 was raised to the nobility. His mother was a Ludendorff. Trained in the Cadet Corps he became an infantry lieutenant in 1875. Later he served on the General Staff, and by 1910 had reached the rank of major-general and commanded the 74th Infantry Brigade. In 1911 he returned to the Great General Staff and next year was promoted lieutenant-general and appointed commander of the Ist Guards Division which he led on the outbreak of the war, first during the advance in the west as part of von Bulow's army and later in the heavy fighting on the Yser in the winter battles in Champagne, etc. Transferred to the Eastern front, he was selected to train and test troops in the new tactics which were to be used with such effect at Caporetto m the following month and in the West in the spring of 1918. These methods, which consisted of the use of gas-shells and a concentration of machine-guns and light artillery with picked battalions to act as the spearhead of the attack, resulted in September. 1917, in the capture of Riga after the defeat of the Russians on the Dvina. In the spring of 1918, he was brought back to France and led the 18th Army during the most dangerous German offensive which began on March 21 on a 40-mile front and brought his troops almost to the gates of Amiens. In June his army played an Important part in the thrust towards Compiegne. After the collapse of the German resistance he led his men during the retreat and resigned in January, 1919. DR. ERIC BARBOUR. WELL-KNOWN CRICKET WRITER. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.8 p.m.) Sydney, December 7. The death has occurred of Dr. Eric Barbour, the well-known inter-State cricketer and cricket writer. Dr Eric Pitty Barbour was educated at Sydney Grammar School, of which he was captain in 1909, and at Sydney University, where he was president of the Undergraduates’ Association in 1913, and Senior Student of St. Andrew’s College in the same year. He served with the Australian Infantry in the Great War from 1915 to 1919. He represented New South Wales as a cricketer from 1908 to 1913, and was a State selector from 1931 to 1933. SIR HENRY BUCKLETON. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 7. Sir Henry Buckleton. ex-General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, collapsed and died suddenly this afternoon. Sir Henry Buckleton, formerly General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was born at Sydney in 1865 and joined the bank there in 1878. He was stationed at Sydney, Melbourne (1891), Hamilton (accountant, 1892). Auckland. New Plymouth (manager, 1901), Wellington (chief insnector, 1905) and Auckland (manager, 1906). He became general manager in 1919.