1. In 1938, David Trench entered the Colonial Service as a cadet in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and was seconded to the Western Pacific High Commission in 1941.
10 Facts About David Trench
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David Trench was commissioned into the Royal Artillery.
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David Trench attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1947 and studied at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1949.
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David Trench served as Governor of the Solomon Islands and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from 1961 to 1964.
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In 1950, David Trench became Assistant Secretary to the Deputy Defence Secretary for Hong Kong.
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David Trench eventually held the office of Deputy Financial Secretary in 1956 and Commissioner of Labour and Mines in 1957.
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In 1958, David Trench studied at the Imperial Defence College in London.
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David Trench served as Deputy Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong between 1959 and 1960.
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David Trench left Hong Kong to take up the office of High Commissioner for the British Western Pacific Territories between 1961 and 1964, but returned to Hong Kong as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong between 1964 and 1971.
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David Trench was a distant kinsman of the Barons Ashtown, and one of his distant relatives, Nigel Clive Cosby David Trench, worked in the Foreign Service and succeeded to the Barony of Ashtown in 1990.