"THE FIFTH"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2485, 11 June 1915, Page 6

"THE FIFTH"

o COMMISSIONS GRANTED THE FINAL LIST His Excellenoy the Governor has approved the following appointments of officers to the sth Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with the ranks specified, and with effect from March. 15 last:— STAFF. Commander—Major George Hepburn Stewart, 12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles. Adjutant—Lieut. Reginald Francis Grambrill, 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment. MOUNTED RIFLES. Captain Clive Sommerville, Reserve of Officers, New Zealand Garrison Artillery; Captain Albert Edward Wilkinson, Reserve of Officers, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles; Captain John Jenkins, fith Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars). Lieut. Robert Gracie Milligan, Now Zealand Garrison Artillery (Auckland); Lieut. Robert Leslie Cathcart Maciarlane, Ist Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry); Lieut. Derislo'y Thayer Wood, Ist Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry). 2nd Lieut. Chilton Goodenough Hayter, Bth , (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles; 2nd Lieut. Noel Gordon Grant, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles; 2nd Lieut. Mervyn Ranken Reed, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles; 2nd Lieut. Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles; 2nd Lieut. Alfred Squires Herbert, Unattached List (b) (Otago District). NEW ZEALAND ARTILLERY (REINFORCEMENTS. Lieut. Edward Wardell Pearce, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Wellington Division); Lieut. Gordon Harris Forsythe, D Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery; Lieut. Vivian Palmer Houghton, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Wellington Divisipn). 2nd Lieut. Harry Hector Doughty, A Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery; 2nd Lieut. Alan Bernard Williams, Unattached List (b) Auckland District. NO. 6 (HOWITZER) BATTERY. Major George Edward Benson Mickle, Royal New Zealand Artillery. Captain Robert Stirrat M'Quarrie, D Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery. Lieut. William Howard Johnston, New Garrison Artillery (Wellington Division). 2nd Lieut. Douglas M'Pherson Cuthbertson, C Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery; 2nd Lieut. Frank Sturmer Wilding, E Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery. (B) HOWITZER BATTERY. (Ammunition Column.) Lieut. Albert James Marshall, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Auckland Division). FIELD ENGINEERS. Captain David John Gibbs, No. 4 Company, New Zealand Engineers; Captain Percy St. John Keenan, New Zealand Railway Battalion. Lieut. Norman Annabel!, Unattached List (b) (Wellington District). INFANTRY. Major Walter Harold Fletcher, 11th Regt. (Taranaki Rifles). Captain Williim Domigan, T.D., 14th (South Otago) Regt. Lieut. Alexander James Clark, 11th Regt. (Taranaki Rifles); Lieut. Arthur Lansdel Gray, Unattached List (b), Can- i terbury District; Lieut. Arthur Sidney ' Todd Butler, 17th (Ruahine) Regt.; Lieut. John Sydney Mnckay, 17th (Ruahine) Regt.; Lieut. Allan Henry Wright, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District; Lieut. Leonard James Ford, 12th (Nelson) Regt.; Lieut. Percy Arthur Seymour Stephens, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regt.; Lieut. Joseph Fleming 1 Keith, Unattached List (b) Auckland District; Lieut. John M'Crae, 14th 1 (South Otago) Regt.; Lieut. Frank \ Leslie Hunt, Unattached List (b), Otago ■ District; Lieut. James Doran M'Comish, 1 2nd New Zealand Railway Battalion; Lieut. Alexander Douglas Jack, Unattached List (b), Auckland District. 2nd Lieut. William Michael Thom, 1 Unattached List (b), Canterbury District; 2nd Lieut. Leslie Stewart Ash- 1 ton, Unattached List (b), Auckland Dis- ; trict'; 2nd Lieut. Frederick Joseph Herring Ellisdon, Unattached List (b), Auckland District; 2nd Lieut. James ' Macmorran, New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps; 2nd Lieut. Oliver Sydney Ellis, Unattached List (b), Auckland District; 2nd Lieut. Sydney Gordon Bowron, Ist (Canterbury) Regt.; 2nd Lieut. George Wyndham Henderson, Unattached List (b), Wellington District; 2nd Lieut. James Thompson, Unattached List (b), Otago District; 2nd Lieut. Harold Vernon Tregear, Unattached List (b), Otago District: 2nd i Lieut. John Patterson Hewat, Unattached List (b); 2nd Lieut-, M'Eenzio John White, Unattached List (b). NEW ZEALAND ARMY SERVICE CORPS. 2nd Lieut. James Donald Swan, No. 4 Company, New Zealand Army Servioe Corps. NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS. Captain (temporary Major) William M'Ara, 51.8.; Captain Kenneth Edwin Tapper, M.B.