BRIGADIER-GENERAL W. S. SWABEY, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., who died in September at the age of 68, had a distinguished career in the Royal Army Service Corps. During the war of 1914 to 1918 he was Deputy Director of Supplies in France, and Director of Supplies and Transport in Italy. He retired from the Army in 1923, and at the end of 1928 he became the Institu- tion's district organizing secretary for the North West of England. This post he held until 1935 when he retired..