-46- #669, Eighteenth from London              
 
                                                            
 
 
I cannot pass from this subject without mentioning the loss 
      which we have sustained and which I personally have sustained 
      in the death in action of my representative with General MacArthur 
      Lieutenant General Lumsden one of our most distinguished and 
      accomplished officers the man who at the very beginning of the 
      war in the first contact with the enemy brought the armored car 
      back into popularity. He was killed on the port side of the bridge 
      of an American ship approaching Luzon by a bomb, which Admiral 
      Fraser himself the Commander-in-Chief of our gathering Navy who 
      happened to be there as a spectator only escaped, by the accident 
      of a few seconds. There have been large losses among the high 
      commanders in these campaigns. In Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford 
      Leigh-Mallory and Admiral Bertram Ramsay we have lost two out 
      of the three British commanders of the expedition across the 
 channel General Montgomery being the sole survivor of the t
 
                                                            
 
 
There is one other campaign on which we and India have extended 
      immense effort and where good fortune has attended us--the advance 
      of the 14th Army--not forgotten but watched carefully their movements 
      ever attended by our thoughts. The advance of the 14th Army in 
      harmony with the Chinese on