NEW DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION.
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LONDON, January 2. The “Daily Herald” says that the late Sir Sefton Brancker’s successor as Director of Civil Aviation, will be Lieut-Colonel Shelmerdine, Director of Civil Aviation in India, who has an unrivalled knowledge of the Empire's airways. Sir Sefton Brancker was killed in the RlOl smash.
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Claude Shelmerdine, 0.8. E. has been Director of Civil Aviation in India since 1927. Born in 1881, he was educated at Rugby and then went on to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In 1901 he joined the 2nd battalion of the Green Howards in India. He served in the Great War in France and Egypt, being attached to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. He was appointed senior assistant in the Directorate of Civil Aviation in 1919.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 1
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