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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 203, 28 August 1942, Page 4

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DOMINION OFFICERS

APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Included among appointments and promotions of officers of the New 1 Zealand military forces gazetted j to-night are the following:— 1 Staff Appointments I Major G. R. Rowbotham, Royal I Artillery, is appointed to command |an anti-aircraft brigade with the ) local rank of colonel. 1 Lieutenant-Colonel V. A. Young, M.C., Royal Artillery, is appointed to a command in the Southern Military District with the rank of ) colonel. \ Major E. Le Davies, Royal ArtilI lery, is appointed to command an ) anti-aircraft brigade with the local j rank of colonel. ! Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. FernyI hough, Royal Artillery, acting-com-j mandant of the New Zealand Staff College, is appointed commandant with the local rank of colonel. Second N.Z.E.F. Appointments Brigadier K. MacCormick, C.8.E., D.5.0., is appointed Director of Medical Services. Lieutenant-Colonel P. A. Ardagh, D.5.0., M.C., is to be Assistant Director of Medical Services. Lieutenant-Colonel L. J. Hunter is to command a casualty clearing station.

I Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Williamson is to command a base camp. I Major B. Barrington is to be : Deputy - Assistant QuartermasterGeneral, New Zealand Division. Lieutenant-Colonel D. T. Maxwell, to be colonel; Lieutenant-Colonel F. Prideaux, to be colonel; Major J. S. Martin, M.8.E., to be lieutenantColonel; Major H. W. D. Lake, to be temporary lieutenant-colonel. Major R. L. C. Grant, to be second in command of a Divisional Signals unit; Major S. J. Hedge, to be Deputy - assistant QuartermasterGeneral of the base camp; Major C. G Pryor, to command a signal school; | Temporary Major I. A. Hart, to be | second in command of an infantry ! training depot; Major J. F. R ; Sprosen. to 'command a field regij ment; Major L. B. Ballantyne, to command a composite training depot- . Major H. E. Crosse, M.C., to com- ' mand a reception depot; Major E. F. Walden, to command an infantry training depot; Major E. T. Kensing- , ton. to command a field regiment' Major L. N. McKay, to command an artillery training depot; £ ® „ Manson. to command a battalion; Major J. S. King, M.B E is appointed General Staff Officer! b ase camp; Major u. hi. Harper, to command an Engineer and Ordnance Depot