NEW ZEALAND ARMY ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND ARMY ABROAD

i FIELD PROMOTIONS i ■ , ' '■ The following are the latest grants of temporary rank, appointments, and promotions of officers in. the Ncv; Zealand Expeditionary Force, noiv serving in tlie lield:— . ' Temporary Rank. Major Alexander Burnett Charters, 17tli (Rualiine) Regiment, to have the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, while (in command of the Neiv Zealand Section Infantry Base Depot, Alexandria; dated April 5, 1915. T Major Alfred Henry Herbert, 9th I (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, ' to have temporary rank of lieutenantcolonel, while in command of tlio Maori Contingent; dated March 26, 1915. Lieiitenant Norman Fitzlierbert, Officer in Charge of Records, New Zealand Expeditionary Force,' to have temporary rank of captain, while so employed; dated April 5, 1915. To be captains, Lieutenant H. M'Callum, New Zeala,nd Medical. Corps; dated November 20, i9i4. ; . Lieutenant 'Albert Edward Mills Jones (Maori Contingent); dated April 3, 191-5. Lieutenant, Pirimi Tahiwa (Maori Contingent); dated April 3, 1915. To be Lieutenants. ' 2nd Lieutenant Owen Herbert . Mead, Canterbury Infantry Battalion; dated September 1, 1914. : ' 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Talra. Grosrenor Rhodes, Aide-de-Camp to General Officer Commanding; dated October 1, ■ 191.4..:' ' ' " ', ; '.I ' 2nd Lieutenant Francis Davison,, Ist Mounted. Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry); dated October 4, 1914. 1 2nd Lieutenant Noel Steaclman, ,15th (North Auckland) Regiment (since killed in action); dated October 18, 1914. 2nd Lieutenant William Godfrey Skelton, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment (since killed in action);, dated October 21, 1914. 2rid? : Lieutenant George Noel Taylor, 10th. '(Nelson). Mounted Rifles; dated November 10, 1914. ■' ./• . 2nd., Lieutenant 'Alexander 'Bastiiv M'Coll, ...11th Regimejit_. (Taranaki Rifles): dated November 27, 19,14. 2nd Lieutenant George Ross Mitchell, 12tli (Otago) . Mounted Rifles ;• dated November 30, 1914. ' i : ; '

. ISIM. , 2nd Lieutenant. Preston Logan, lit). North Auckland) Mounted Rifles (since died of wounds); dated December 15, 1914. _ ;

2nd Lieutenant George Carlisle Bailey, Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles; dated. December 22, 1914..- •

' 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Clervaux Chaytor, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles; dated December 24, 1914. -.

2nd Lieutenant Alan Standish Wilder, 9tli (Wellington Bast Coast) Mounted Rifles; dated December 28, 1914. ; .\2nd Lieutenant Robert Nicol Morpeth, ,6th (Hauraki) Regiment; dated January 4, 1915. . 2nd' :■ Lieutenant. Douglas Playfair Fraser, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment; dated January 4, 1915. v 2nd Lieutenant Eric Arthur Scott, 12th (Otago) Mounted, Rifles; dated January 8, 1915. vV, . ; 2nd- Lieutenant' Francis. LevesonGower West, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment; dated January 27, 1915. ; : 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Dodson, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment (since killed in action); dated January 29, 1915. / 2nd Lieutenant Claude St. Clair Hamilton, 10th (North Otago) Regiment; dated January 29, 1915. 2nd Lie.utenant Richard Ewen Eggleston, 4th (Otago) Regiment); dated February 15, 1915. ■ 2nd Lieutenant- Brio Buckingham Alley, 7tli (Southland) Mounted Rifles; dated February. 26, 1915. 2nd Lieutenant Herman _ Stuart Baddeley. 16th (W-iikato) Regiment;' dated March 19. 1915. 2nd _ Lieutenant Alexander Cameron Monteith/Finlayson, 11th "(North Auckland) Mounted Rifles; dated March 19, 1915. ' 2nd Lieutenant ; Charles Frederick Smedley. 11th .'(North ■. Auckland) Mounted.Rifles; dated,- March 19, ;1915. 2nd Lieutenant Arthur, Edward l Alexander, New. Zealand Engineers; dated March 30, 1915. To be 2nd Lieutenants. New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. --, Sergeant Norman 'Joseph, Lerien, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment;, dated April 3, 1915. Sergeant Thomas Joseph -King, sth (Wellington) Regiment; dated April 3, 1315. Maori Contingent.. Company Sergeant-Major William Hutahi Walker; dated April 3, 1915. . Sergeant John, Charles Tikao; dated April 3, 1915. \