Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Monday 26 February 1934, page 1


COINED "ANZAC"

Major-General Wagstaff

Dead

LONDON, Saturday.

The death has occurred of MajorGeneral Cyril Mosley Wagstaff, Commandant of the Royal Military Aca-demy" at Woolwich, in his 56th year.

In a letter of sympathy to the widow, the acting High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. J. G. McLaren), recalls Major-General Wagstaff's part in coining the word Anzac, as indi-cated in Dr, C. E. W. Bean's i Official

History of Australia in the War,

which says that at Cairo Major-General Wagstaff recommended the word to Field-Marshal Sir William Bird-