THE "FOURTH"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2442, 22 April 1915, Page 9

THE "FOURTH"

LIST OF COMMISSIONS

APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED

Tile final list of appointments of officers to the 4th Reinforcements and attached units lias been approved by His Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool) as follows: — STAFF. Commander: Captain (temporary Major) Redmond Barry Neill, Reserve of Officers, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish) Fusiliers. Staff Officer: Captain. Samuel Alexander Grant, N.Z.S.O. MOUNTED RIFLES. Major Robert Ross Bowie, Bth (South Canterbury Mounted Rifles). ' Captain Charles Ernest Clifton, Reserve of Officers, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. Lieutenant Pcroy John Richmond Fordhnm, Reserve of Officers, 4th (Otago) Regiment; Lieutenant Murray Wodehouse Puiaki Blathwayt, Unattached List (b), Otago District. Second Lieutenant Guy Spencer Oheeseman, Unattached List (b),'Auckland District; Seoond Lieutenant Douglas Gilford Moore, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles; Second Lieutenant Donald Alexander Finlayson, 11th (North_ Auckland) Mounted Rifles j Second Lieutenant Gerald Cawte, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Second Lieutenant Francis Benjamin Hart Guiness, Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles; " Second Lieutenant George Gordon Denniston, Unattached List (b), General List; Second Lieutenant Desmond Fosbery Kettle, Unattached List (b). General List; Second Lieutenant Ferdinand von Tompsky Kettle, Unattached List (b), General List. ' NEW ZEALAND ARTILLERY. Field Artillery Brigade (Reinforcements). Second Lieutenant Charles Newey Mitchell, D Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery. Howitzer Battery. Second Lieutenant Henry Purse Warnock, J Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery. No. 5 18-Pounder Battery. Major Gilbert James Beattie, E Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery. Lieutenant Henry Gordon Wilding, New Zealand Garrison Artillery; Lieutenant Frank Stanley Robinson. New Zealand Garrison Artillery; Lieutenant Otira Opie, Royal New Zealand Artillery; Lieutenant William George Stevens, Royal New Zealand Artillery. FIELD COMPANY ENGINEERS. Major George Barclay, V.D., New Zealand_ Railway Battalion. Captain Antonie Beekman, New Zealand Railway Battalion. Lieutenant Bertie Leonard Redding Reeve, New Zealand Railway Battalion. v Second Lieutenant Frank Clifford Wilson, New Zealand Railway Battalion; Second Lieutenant Henry Harrison Fisher, No. 1 Company New Zealand Engineers; Second Lieutenant William Stevens M'Crorie, No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineers. INFANTRY. Major Arthur Grenville Hume. New Zealand_ Garrison Artillery. Captain Ernest Arthur George Holdgate, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment; Captain Rogers William Wilkinson, sth (Wellington) Regiment. Lieutenant John Sinclair Bain, 7th (Wellington, West Coast) Regiment; Lieutenant Harry Marshall Wright, lSv (Canterbury) Regiment (Coast Defence Detachment); Lieutenant George Ebington Wait, unattached list (b), Otago District; Lieutenant Jack Horneman, Unattached List (b), Auckland District; Lieutenant Arthur George Aldridge, New Zealand Railway Battalion; Lieutenant Arthur Hugh Carrington, N.Z.S.C.; Lieutenant Kenneth Munro, 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Seoond Lieutenant John Franklin Tonkin, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District; Second Lieutenant Frederick Stuart Varnham, 7th (Wellington, West Coast) Regiment; Second Lieutenant William John Stone, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District; Second Lieutenant Oswald Victor Stead, Btli (Southland) Regiment; Second Lieutenant Cedric Leonard Knight. 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own); Second Lieutenant Ewart Linley Wells, Unattached List (b), Wellington District; Second Lieutenant James Edward Hedley Mewett, 15tli (North Auckland) Regiment; Second Lieutenant Alfred . Richard Merrington, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own); Second Lieutenant Thomas Gillman, 4th (Otago) Regiment; Second Lieutenant Charles Cockburn Miles, 6th (Wellington) Regiment; Seoond Lieutenant Garth Gallaway, Unattached List (])), General List: Second Lieutenant John Elliott Cutlnll, Unattached List (b), General List. NEW ZEALAND ARMY SERVICE CORPS. Major Annesley Craven Robinson, Army Service Corps. Lieutenant Dick Radcliffe (late Lieutenant Queen's Westminster Volunteer Rifles). Second Lieutenant Alan M'Clune Woodward. 1 Second Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Bushell. Second Lieutenant John Temple. NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS. Captain William Kington Fyffe, New Zealand Medical Corps, and is gazetted the temporary rank of major while employed with the 4th Reinforcements. Captain William M'Ara, New 'snd Medical Corps. Captain Douglas Wilson, New Zealand Medical Corps. NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY CORPS. Captain Thomas Gordon Lilico, M.R.C.V.S., England. ~ ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT. Honorary Lieutenant George Gordon Priest, Unattached List (b) General List.