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Died. Field Marshal Lord William Riddell Birdwood, 85, commander of the Dardanelles Army in the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, oldest active soldier in the British Army; in London...
...onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis...
...blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; the ship's designer; the man who superintended her construction; the commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic; and 43 other passengers, officers...
...cavalryman, he was serving in Burma the year young Rudyard Kipling published Barrack-room Ballads. Under General Sir Edmund Allenby he commanded the 20th Army Corps at the capture of Jerusalem. In 1928 he became Chief of the Indian General Staff, in 1930 succeeded Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood as C.-in-C. His job last week was to keep the army on its toes, bring the British forces in India unobtrusively up to their authorized strength...
...crashed in France and killed 48 occupants because of leaking gas and bad weather. That fact, which everyone already knew, was virtually the sum total of the long-awaited report of the court of inquiry, delivered last week in London. The investigators fixed no blame upon Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air (killed in the crash) who was said to have hastened the start of the flight to India to precede the opening of the Imperial Conference. But they gingerly admitted that the inadequately tested ship ''would not have started...