MILITARY POSITIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2575, 24 September 1915, Page 3

MILITARY POSITIONS

- OFFICERS AT THE FRONT PROMOTIONS & APPOINTMENTS. ■ Xast nighfs Gazette contains the fol- .» promotions and appointments in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, now on active service:—. Divisional Staff. Capt. William Thomas Beck, D.A.D.0.5., Kev. Zealand Mihtary Forces to be captain. New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade. .. Auckland Mounted Rifle Regiment. . The undermentioned to be second lieu-tenants:—Sergt.-Major Ernest Albert ',' . Vlce Lieutenant Cornelius James, killed; m action; Sergt. Clarence Taylor Cobourne, vice Lieut. Preston Logan, killed in action; Sergt. Henry Frederick , .'Ernest Alackesy, since -killed in action, ' vice Seoond Lieut. Frederick James Weir, , died of wounds. - Wellingtoii'Mounted Rifle E«giment. Lieut. Thomas Percy James to be captain, since-died of wounds, vice Capt. William James Hardham, V.C., invalided. Sergt.-Major Patrick James Cotton, vice Second Lieut. Charles Watt, killed in action. . . ' Sergt. Arthur Desmond Herrick, vice Lieutenant Percy . Tivy' Emerson,, killed in action. < 1 ' , Sergt. Ralph Fitz-Hoger Beetham, vice Lieutenant. Norman Donald Cameron, killed in action. Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiment. Second Lieut. Thomas Lomax Gibbs, to be lieutenant. , New Zealand Engineers. : Lieut. Frederick Walter Skelsey, to be vice Capt. Antonio Beekman,, invalided. ' The undermentioned second , lieutenants to be lieutenants, to complete establishment : —Frank Clifford Wilson, 'Henry Harrison Fisher, William "Stevens M'Crorie. Sergt. Charles Wallace Saunders, to be second lieutenant, vice Capt. D. P; Simpson, invalided;'Sergt. C. W. Salmon, to be second lieutenant Frederick Walter Skelsey, promoted. ~

. New, Zealand Infantry Brigade, . Auckland Battalion. -Capt. Samuel. Alexander Grant, New Zealand Staff Corps, , since died of wounds, •to be second in command (temporarily), and 19 granted the; temporary rant of major whilst so employed. ' Capt. Wilfred Courtnay Sinel: to bo major, vice Major Walter William Alderman, invalided. v • <;.The. following second, lieutenants, ■ baring served the prescribedjeriod in that rank, to be lieutenants:—William Evelyn.' Pranoise di • Delle-Flower, since killed in action; Roy Waldo Fry Wood. ' : Wellington. Battalion., Lieut. Ernest Sirdefield -HaTston, to be temporary captain while in command of a ■ oompany, vice Capt. Leslie Somers M'Lernon, killed in action. '' The following second lieutenants, having served' the prescribed period in that rank, to be lieutenants:—Hugh Edgar M'KinJion, Murray Urquhart, Kichard William Wrightson. Canterbury Battalion.' Capt. Kennedy Macfarlane Greeson to be major, vice Major -Cyprian Bridge Brereton, invalided; Capt. George Cruickshank Griffiths to be major, vice Major Kennedy Macfarlane Greeson, invalided. The following eecond lieutenants, having, served the prescribed period in that rank, to be: lieutenants -.—Edward' Harvey- Stagpole Batchelor, Donald Dobson, Dugald M'Donald: Eobertson.. Otago Battalion. Capt. Prank Hadfield Statham ■ to . be major, vice Major Geoffrey' Samuel Smith, invalided; Lieut. Claude St. Clair Hamilton to be adjutant, vice Capt. John itsirellyn Saraidei's, invalided. . • The following second' lieutenants, having served the prescribed period in. that rank, to be lieutenants.—John ThomasMoroney, Andrew Colquhoun Boyes.

. New Zealand Army Service Corps. . : The following: lieutenants to Ire captains to complete establishment:—Leopold George Dykes Acland, Frank Woolman. ";The folloTrintf second lieutenants to be lieutenants, td complete establishment: B. Dick Cleland, George Eliot Elliott. New Zealand Medical Corps. 'Major Jlathew Holmes to be Assistant Director of Medical Services, New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt., with temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel -while so employed, vice Colonel Johnstf.il Will, returned to New.Zealand. The undermentioned captains to be majors:—George Craig, Hemr John M'Lean, George Home. ■ <', Dental Surgeons. The undermentioned to be.lieutenants:— Kichard J. King,\ Leonard Henry Potton. Maori Contingent, Sergt. A. Eaymond- Curtis, from Canterbury Infantry Battalion, to be second lieutenant, and to command machine-gun section of the Contingent.