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...stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets' Corner of the Abbey,* the pallbearers included Kipling's cousin. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Major General Sir Fabian Ware. the Morning Post's Editor H. A. Gwynne. Then to the Abbey floor was added a plain stone inscribed, "RUDYARD KIPLING...
...Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that to British prestige in Africa irretrievable. Last week sword-handy Britons of the more resolute school, such as General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, brimmed with hostile advice. At the very least a British force padded with Egyptian and Indian troops ought to sneak up the Blue Nile and mount guard over Lake Tana. Also it would be well to make a naval demonstration of some sort...
Three days later British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham crossed the Channel with 40 British staff officers including General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. Chief of the Imperial Gen eral Staff, and set out from Paris as guests of the French General Staff for a four-day tour of the Franco-Belgian frontier and Wartime battlefields...
Appointed. General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd, aide de camp to George V; to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff, succeeding Field-Marshal Sir George Francis Milne...