ARMY PROMOTIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 7

ARMY PROMOTIONS

6 — MAIN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE His Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool) has approved of the undermentioned grants of temporary rank promotions, appointments, and resignations of officers employed with tho New Zealand Expeditionary oFrce:— STAFF. Lieutenant-Colonel W, G. BraithrD'S"9,'' P s -°-> Imperial General 6taff, from. General Staff Officer, second grade, to General Staff Officer, first grade. Major- Charles Shawe Reserve of Officers, Rifle Brigade (Tin Prince Consort s Own), to be General Staff Officer, third grade. GRANT OF TEMPORARY RANK. Major N. C. Hamilton, Army Service. yorps, commanding the Divisional to have the temporary rank of heutfinant-colonel while so employed. T)ae undermentioned captains of the New Zealand. Staff Corps to have the temporary rank of major while serving wi.tfh the Mew Zealand Expeditionary Fwrce:— •H. J. Brown. Guy Powles. TO BE MAJORS. Captain N. C. Hamilton, Army Ser'rice Corps. Captain N. S. Falla, Now Zealand Howitzer Batter;. TO BE CAPTAINS. The undermentioned lieutenants .(dental surgeons).to be captains:—William Mackenzie, William Aitken, John Connor, Donald Stewart Milne, Kenneth MacCormack, John Philp Jory, Thomas Russell Ritchie, Francis Parnell Tymons, John Ballam Don, William j Gladstone Scannell, Gecrge Stanley Sharpe, Bertrand Sibbald Finn, Douglas Maunsell Beere, Arthur Lunan Logan, Ernest Herbert Rawson, Raymond Alfred Dearsley, Donald Benjamin Green, John Sanders Fairchild.. Lieutenant F. Waite, New Zealand | Engineers.

Lieutenant P. B. Greenhough, New Zealand Field Artillery. Lieutenant H. J. Daltry, New Zealand Howitzer Battery.

TO BE LIEUTENANTS. Leopold G. D. Acland, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Farrier-Sergeant ,1. E. Cockroft, 6th (MaEWvatu) Mounted Rifles, for service in the New Zealand Veterinary camps. .~nd Lieutenant 11. TV. Higginson, New Zealand Army Service Corps. 2nd Lieutenant J. G. Stewart, New Zealand Army Service Corps. 2nd Lieutenant M. S. Cameron, Now Zealand Army Service Corps.

TO BE 2nd LIEUTENANTS. Sergeant D. A. M'Curdy, clerical staff, headquarters. Corporal J. D. Dryden, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Lance-Corporal S. W. Paine, Field Troops, New Zealand Engineers. Lance-Corporal M. G. H, Newbould, Field Company, New Zealand 'Engineers. Sergeant H. T. Boscawen 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Sergeant D. B. M'Donald, Queen Alexandra's 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles. Sergeant R. J. Black, New Zealand Engineers. Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Henry M'Dougall, New Zealand Field Artillery (New Zealand Howitzer Battery Ammunition Column). Sergeaiit W. J. Baxter, New Zealand Field Artillery (No. 2 Brigade Ammuni-, tion Column). I Sergeant P. J. Ellis, New Zealand Field- Artillery. Coanpany Sergt.-Major P. H. Harper, New Zealand Army Service Corps. fJo'rgeant 0. I). Dick-Clelland. New Zealand Army Service Corps. "" TO BE QUARTERMASTERS. Lieutenant F. N. Marchant, Bth '(South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles, with xhe rank af Honorary Captain. Lieutenant V. J. Egglestone, 4th (Otago) Regiment (Quartermaster Otago Infantry Battalion), to be Honorary Captain. Honorary Lieutenant W. H. Will (Quartermaster New Zealand Field Ambulance), to be Honoray Captain. Quartermaster-Sergeant H. H. Whyte, New Zealand Field Artillery, with the rank of Honorary Lieutenant. RESIGNATIONS. Quartermaster (Hon. Captain) E. P. Coady, Canterbury Mounted. Rifle Regiment. 2nd Lieutenant B. L. Joll, Queen Alexandra's 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles HONORARY CONSULTING SURGEON. Sir Lambert Cronsby, M.D., F.R.C.S., to be Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the New Zealand Expeditionary- Force,' with the honorary rank of I.iontenantColonel in the New Zealand Medical Corps.