OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 10

OBITUARY.

■ Sudden Death of Sir Henry Buckleton. [ NOTED BANKER. Per 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 Ruckleton was born In ' Sydney in 1864 and began his business j career as a junior in the Sydney branch j

of the Bank of New Zealand in 1878. He was transferred to New Zealand in 1892 and held positions in various parts of the North Island. He was general manager of the Bank from 1920 till his retirement. General von Hutier. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.. BERLIN, December 6. The death has occurred of General Oskar von Hutier. the German general, at the age of seventy-seven years. His father was a major, the son of a French family which had settled in Germany before the war of 1870-1. His grandfather was a French officer, but his father entered the Prussian service and in 1869 was raised to the nobility. Ilis mother was a Ludendorff. Trained in the Cadet Corps, he became an infantry lieutenant. 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 at the outbreak of the war on the French front. 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 in 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, re- ! suited in September, 1917, in the capj ture of Riga. In spring, 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 forty-mile front, and brought his troops almost to the gal*® of Amiens. In June his army played an important part in the thrust towards Compeigne. After the collapse of the German resistance he led his men during the retreat. He resigned in January, 1919. Julian Wylie. LONDON, December 6. The death has occurred of Mr Julian Wylie, the theatrical producer and manager. Rev Charles Askew. LONDON, December 6. The Rev Charles Askew was found dead on the railway at BeaconsftelK He was dean of kelson. New Zealand, from 1923 to 1933. The Rev Charles Frederick Askew was born in England, and was educated at Hawkehead Grammar School and at Cambridge. He first came to New Zealand as vicar of St Mark., Wellington, in 1911, where he remained until he was appointed dean of Nelson in 1923 He resigned last year anc. returned to England.