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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 5

- >.Word-has been received in Palmer-, 'ston North/ that' Staff Sergeant-Major C. L. Nicholls, of the sth (Royal Irish) Lancers.- has- been granted . a lieutenant's commission, in the Imperial Army, Sergeant-Major Nicholls was one of the n.e.o.'s on loan to the New Zealand : Defence Department by the British .'Army, and';was stationed in Palmerstoa North for over three years as regi'V mental sergeant-major of the 6th; V Mounted Rifles. He left New Zealand; with the . Wellington Mounted Rifles o£ the Main Expeditionary Force. Mrs. Nicholls ■, lias resided in Palmerston 1 North since her husband's departure. '' Lieutenant R. C. 'Wickdns^'• who is serving with- the New Zealand A'rtil- , lory at the in a letter to His father, Mr. W.' Wickehs, tlie.Cluistohurch City Council's ' head gardener,, states that his battery was the first of the artillery: to land on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The battery entrenched itself at once, and got.to work. Lieutenant iWiokens served in tho E Battery; ■for., 1 a number of-.'years."; His brother,' Wv S. iWickens, was also in the 13 Battery, but has been in Australia, where ne joined the 3rd Battery in tho Bth Australian Remforcments, ' wilicll