Brigadier-General Borlase Edward Wyndham Childs

Brigadier-General Borlase Edward Wyndham Childs, CMG (1876-1946), Director of Personal Services in the British Army during the First World War, drawn by Lieutenant Percival Anderson. His position included the supervision of discipline in the army. He originally studied law and got a commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1900. He landed in South Africa just after peace had been concluded, but gained his first experience of staff work as Garrison Adjutant at Cape Town. He went to France on GHQ Staff in 1914, adn became Assistant Adjutant-General, a position he held until 1916 when he came to the War Office to take on the role of Director of Personal Services

Borlase Brigadier Childs Discipline Percival Wyndham

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