DEFENCE CHANGES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2372, 30 January 1915, Page 8

DEFENCE CHANGES

LIST OF APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments, promotions, transfers, and resignations of officers in the New Zealand Defence Forces have been approved by His Excellency the Governor, and are gazetted: — New Zealand Staff Corps. Major Harry Rowland Potter is granted the temporary rank of - lieutenantcolonel, while employed as Commandant of the Reinforcement Camp; Captain (temporary Major) Daniel Aloysius Hickey, D.5.0., to be major. The undermentioned captains to be majors:— Robert Oswald Chesney, John Evelyn Duignan ; Captain Percy William Skelley "to be Assistant Adjutant-General. The undermentioned lieutenants (temporary) are attached, while employed with the New Zealand Military Forces: —Phillip Newman Petty (Army Service Corps), Francis Edward Ostler. (Army Service Corps). The Regiment of Royal New Zealand Artillery. The undermentioned captains to be majors:—Frank. Symon, George Edward Benson Mickle. . . . Queen Alexandra's* 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles. The undermentioned to .be lieutenants:—Sergeant Patrick John O'Dowd, Sergeant William Richard Foley, Sergeant Claude Albert Marchant. 6th fManawatu) Mounted Rifles! , The undermentioned: .to .be. second lieutenants (on probation)Quarter-master-Sergeant John Ralph Taylor, Reuben James Bird, George Frankßanby. 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. ■ Richard Erroll Wardell Riddiford to be second lieutenant (on probation). 10th (Nelson) Mounted' Rifles- ' Lieutenant Edward Andamas Maude resigns his commission. New Zealand Garrison Artillery. The - undermentioned second ants' to be lieutenants: —Richard Allan Hogan, William Esmonde Lennox Napier, Robert Gracie Milligan, Silston Cory Wright to be lieutenant. 0 New Zealand Railway Battalions (North Island). Robert Henry Thomas Moore to be 2nd lieutenant (on probation). New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps. The undermentioned 2ud lieutenants to be lieutenants: Charles Henry Moltzon and Stephen William Brooker. ' sth (Wellington) Regiment. Lance-Corporal Charles Cockburn Miles to'be 2nd lieutenant (on probation), > 9th '(Wellington East- Coast) • Regiment. The undermentioned to be 2nd lieutenants (on probation): Sergeant John Walter Snaddon and Harry George Roy Mackay. . I2th .(Nelson) Regiment. The undermentioned 2nd lieutenants to be lieutenants:—George Robert jamieson and Owen Herbert Mead. Sergeant Ernest James Fawcett to fie* 2nd lieutenant. The appointments of the undermentioned 2nd lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed: Fred Starnes and Frederick Milroy. . 1 New Zealand Army Service Corps. Sergeant Frederick' Augustus Mac- ! Donald to be 2nd .lieutenant (on probation), No. 1 Company.