LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES EARLE, D.S.O., O.B.E., has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown.

Lieut.-Colonel Earle was born in 1913 and educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College. He served as an officer in the Grenadier Guards from 1933 to 1955, and on giving up command served in the War Office until 1958. During the war he took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk and saw active service in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe. He was awarded the D.S.O.

in 1945 and made O.B.E. in 1943. From 1947 to 1950 he was Adjutant of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Lieut.-Colonel Earle is a keen yachtsman and a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron..