31. He then served for five months as General Staff Officer 2nd Class at the New Zealand Divisional Headquarters. 32. He was a General Staff officer and also commanded Base Section Number 2 in Bordeaux until July 1919. 33. He took as a model the Prussian Military Academy, which trained general staff officers for the Prussian army. 34. In 1943, Pearson became a General Staff Officer , first at Force Headquarters and then in the Middle East. 35. From April 1932 to January 1935 he was a general staff officer , grade 2 at the War Office. 36. Before he received a General Staff Officer Course, in 1942, he was the military attach?in Ankara, Turkey. 37. After the War he became a General Staff Officer with Malaya before moving on to India and Pakistan. 38. In 1910, he was gazetted a general staff officer in the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office. 39. He held various postings as a General Staff Officer between then and 1935 at the War Office and Egypt. 40. At the start of the October Revolution and the Stalin's Great Purge, he was promoted to General Staff officer .