Appointment as Officer Commanding Southern Rhodesian Forces, 9th October 1936

COLONEL J. S. MORRIS, CB.E.




Born at Didsbury, Lancashire, 1890, attested as Trooper, British South Africa Police, 1909

Commissioned April, 1914. Assistant Commissioner, 1929. Acting Commissioner, 1932. Commissioner, 1933, on retirement of Colonel G. Stops, C.B.E. Acting Officer Commanding Southern Rhodesia Forces, April, 1936, in addition to Commissioner, B.S.A. Police. Confirmed in appointment as Officer Commanding Southern Rhodesian Forces, 9th October 1936, on retirement of Colonel G. Parson, C.B.E., D.S.O Southern Rhodesia Forces,.

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Extracted and recompiled by Eddy Norris from the B.S.A.P. magazine dated November 1936.

Magazine made available to ORAFs by Lewis Walter (D.C.)