FROM HANDY-MAN TO ADMIRALTY-LOUD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 6

FROM HANDY-MAN TO ADMIRALTY-LOUD.

There have been some wild and whirling careers due to the upheaval brought about by the war but few indeed to equal that of Sir Eric Geddes, the new Controller of Supplies at the Admiralty. When hostilities broke out on that fateful August night in 1914, Sir Eric —he v.-as plain "Mr." then, by the way —was just an ordinary English railwayman, holding a responsible position it is true, as Deputy Manager of the Aorth-Eastern line, but unknown to rame outside his own immediate circle. Then presently along came Lloyd George, on the look out for men "of push and go," and snapped him up for his newly-formed Ministry of Munitions. Next ho became Director-Gen-eral of Military Railways at the War office. Then he was "collared" by Sir Douglas Haig, and whisked off to France, where he was given the post of Director-General of Transportation on i.ie Commander-in-Chief's staff.