home posting

A series of unexciting home postings had left him restless and disillusioned after the buzz of action.

He alternated between home postings dealing with administration, and engineering work on RAF bases (including in Iraq until 1932).

From 1893 to 1898 he was on home postings, as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters, then as Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershot and as Commandant of the Staff College, then commanded 3rd Brigade at Aldershot, 1898-99.

His home postings did at least allow for more frequent trips to London, and Marion Crawford, Princess Elizabeth's governess, described seeing Philip's black, green-upholstered MG sports car roaring into the forecourt of Buckingham Palace and the prince getting out 'hatless" and "always in a hurry to see Lilibet."