NAVAL OFFICERS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 9

NAVAL OFFICERS.

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

"Further New • Zealand Kviaion apt pbintments:— i.

Lieutenant-Commander. T. S. L.Dor- ; man, late of H.M.S. CcKmrano/is on - his way to "New Zealand in the relief!; ship Sirius, having been, appointed lsi and Gunnery Officer of HJkI.S. Pyramus, on reoommissioriing,<in place oi'/•> Lieutenant G. H. IDennistoun, who wiß return to England. v ' : - "

Lieutenant \V\ F. Preedy, late nuvi-. ■ gator of the torpedo boat destroyer Lapwing, lias been appointed to Sirius, as navigator for the voyage out ■ to. Now Zealand. Ho has been ap* ■• pointed navigator in H.M.S. Pliflomol, - oncrecommissidning, and will relievo " Limit;. WYPennefatber, iwho will return to England in the Sirius, "•;:

I*eut.:,C. R. 6t.G. Tucker has 4 re-appoirited to H.M.S. Psyohe, on'r<* 'A commissioning. Lieut. E. T. W. .Cterrcb; " at present in the Pyramus, will trans/ - r fer to the Psyche.' !' i

Captain Guy R. A. Gaunt, R.N., who : ? has been appointed to the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty, War Staff,/ enjoys the distinction of being '/ the : C senior of tho only four supplementary :J c officers, who have ever got=beyond the - rank of lieutenant on the active Jisfc. of > tho Royal Nary. He is a son of tho ' late Judge Gaunt, of Melbourne, and v younger brother of Commodoro E. F. A. . V Gaunt, C.M.G., and was 45 years of " age this month. He was appointed - : ai '.->' ■ midshipman Royal Naval Reserve from ■-■■''' the Worcester in December, 1886, and ,i served as acting-sub-lieutenant in 'the.': Rnpert during the naval manosuvres of v - July, 1889; in the Curlew, August 1889, ::.}■ in the Gamperdown ■> flagship of 'Srr Michael OulmoSSeymour, May, 1880,''-■':■-and torpedo boat No. 62, on passagw,;- : . !l ' across the North Atlantic to Halifax, . - June, 1890, and tho Tyne for .the voy-v. ! age Homo. He received an expression."; : of their lordships' approval for > vice in No. 62, and in April, 1891, transferred to the Victorian Navy, with. • - the rank of sub-lieutenant. He was-.-,'".

promoted to lieutenant in October,-': •'''."•■: 1893, and two years later was appointed ' *: a lieutenant on the of the Royal Navy, and joined H.M.S. -■'■}- Swift on the China Station,' February, - 1896. He was present in her during " y the operations at Manila, early in the/ following year, and in June," 1897,;-v----joined the AgincouYt, depot for boys" at ■ ' Chatham, being, present at tbe Diamond >:"-" Jubilee Spithead Review in her the. same month. In November, 1807, ho came out on the Australasian Station as • navigator in the Porpoise, • and during / the operations in Samoa was. in command of a native regiment which, ho -*•_".-. raised, known as "Gaunt's Brigade." He was in command of the British. C6u-\ T sulate during the night attack on Apia," V and for h» services was mentioned .fn.' : \ despatches and subsequently advanced • to the rank of commander, June, 1801,.* ! serving in the Hibernia, the Spartiate, and the Vengeance, the latter on Vtho China Station/ until April, 1908. Ho was commander of the Cressy, in reserve at Portsmouth, June, 1905, and of the \ Glory, in the Channel fleet and the•Homo fleet, October, 1905, and was promoted to captain at the end of June/ . 1907. After taking a war course -ho ' commanded tho Andromeda, January,, 1909, and Niobe, November, 1909, both in tho Home fleet, the Challenger, on the Australasian Station, Feb... ruary, 1910, to January, 1912, and the Majestic and a group of ships of the Third Fleet at Devonport. Oc-- •■■'. tober, 1912. His last command was-vj. S.M.S. Thunderer, in the Second Baltic -; Squadron, September to November,: 1913. i '.'-.".;.■