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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16162, 16 March 1918, Page 12

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PERSONAL NOTES ABOUT NEW ZEALANDEKS. (.FROM ot'll OWN CORUESrONDENT.) LONDON. January 11. A late list ol" promotions in the R.X.V.H. affects a good many New Zcalander.s who came Home lor the Motor-Boat Patrol, and who have been raised from sub-lieutonunts lieutenants. The names include: —Ronald A. Kirkwood (Auckland), 11. A. Adams (Auckland,i, Hubert N. Jarvis (Christchurch), Charles 1. Dcnkam (Christchurch), Oscar \V. Carter (Auckland), George AV. Horsey (Wellington), Charles V. Brown (Napier;, M. Kirkwcod (Oneliunga), Gr- or S p ' Harold V. Hemus (Auckland), niond M. "Watson (Port Chalmers), I*. .7- Treanor (Pukokohe). W llliam A. Wilson (Wellington). "William A Uu-,-io T. C. Hoston, All red 0. \V. C'ozons (Auckland), !'• Bothamlev (Header of tho Hotise ol Reprcsem atives: Associate to Mr Justice Hoskin<r>. W. 1\ Endean,J- }'• s - Brings (Wanganui), Walter H. Hislop (Dunedin), James Anstice(Nelson), ! Harold L. Goodwin (\\ anganui), Louis Jenkinson (Auckland), C«. E. L. Alderton (Auckland). Joseph >..• Hines (Christchurch). "William A. H. Garden (Dunedin), Arthur .J Dean (Dunedin), H. C. Spinlev (Auckland), S. P. Simpson (Christchurch - ). D. E, Macvean (Christchurch), F. C. Burgess (Napier). Nows has been received that -iiuLieutenant Roger 13. Johnson has been promoted ono step in rank, and has been awarded the Military Cross. Ho (rot his commission in the 4th Hussars, but has for some months been attached to the Headquarters, 3rd Brigade ILH.A. He is tho eldest son of -Major Percy Johnson (Mount Torlesse. Canterbury). Lieutenant Johnson passed through Sandhurst in February, 1915, and has been serving ever since. Colonel do Bellaigue do Bughas, Chief of the French Military Mission attached to tho British Armies, expresses liis a.Dprcckition of tho conduct of Captain Orchard, of the N.Z.M.C., ■who, "on the 31st oi July, 191j, during a bombardment by largo shells, went, without any fear of danger, through a part of tho town which was particularly shelled, placed himself at the disposal of the hospital patients, stayed amongst, them, and quieted them by his coolness and good spirits, and did not leave the hospital before tho bombardment came to" an end, after having looked after a young man wounded by a shell splinter.'' Lieutenant H. "W. D. Bold, R.N.R., has been declared fit again after his attack of fever, contracted in the, Mediterranean, and lias been posted to H.M.S.- Apollo. Lieutenant Bold was formerly in the Union Steam Ship Company, joined tho N.Z.15.F., was wounded at Gallipoli, and ultimately transferred to the It.N.l'. January 22. Dr. Charles Thomson, formerly iii practice at Leamington, has joined the R.A.M.C., and is well on his way to Mesopotamia. Mo is one of the sons { of Mr C. E. Thomson, formerly of the j Colonial Bank in Oamaru, and for | some years attached to the National I Banking Corporation in London —from which position lie is now retiring. Mr George Thomson is back at tho Kalantau Mines, Malay Peninsula. After having been invalided out of the Service in consequence of shellshock, and in hospital for a year, Lieutenant 11. 31. Chiy.stall (Christchurch), lias, contrary to all expectations. made a complete recovery. He volunteered for re-survey, and was successful in being passed for general service. Previously with the R.N.R., Lieutenant Chrvstall now has a- commission in the Royal Engineers, with whom ho is doing special Work, and lie expects to leave for France at an early date. During the winter he has been a_ useful member of the Public Schools United Service Rugby Fifteen. Captain J. I. Chrvstall is still with his regiment in Mesopotamia, and 2ndLientenant G. B. Chrvstall. R.F.A., is in France. Their sister. "Miss Chrvtnll. is at the rannipnt in London, on short leave from France, where she is working ;«t a canteen at a rest camp.