MILITARY MATTERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2626, 23 November 1915, Page 6

MILITARY MATTERS

N.Z. PROMOTIONS

STAFF CORPS AND ARTILLERY

OFFICERS

DENTAL CORPS APPROVED

The following military. promotions havo been made:--

N.Z. Staff Corps, To be Colonels.

Lieut.-Colonel (temporary colonel) Vere Staunton Smyth, A.B.C. Lieut. r Colonel (temporary colonel) Robert Logan, A.D.C. To be' Lieutenant-Colonels... \ Major (temporary lieutenant-colonel) Harry Rowland Potter. Major (temporary lieutenant-colonel) Geo. Stafford Richardson. . To be Majors. . Captain (temporary major) James Edgecunibo Barton. • Captain (temporary major) Wm. Leo Kobison. .. Captain (temporary major) Chas. Hy. Jeffries Brown. Captain (temporary major) Walter Harry Modelings. •' " To be Captains. Lieutenant (temporary captain) Harry M'Kellar White' Richardson. Lieutenant (temporary captain), Andrew Hartley Burn. Lieutenant; (temporary captain) Geo. Bertram 'Banks. . . Lieutenant; (temporary .captain) Hugh Bernard Wheeler. . Lieutenant (temporary captain) Harold Lloyd de'Fosges-Garland. " • Lieutenant (temporary captain) &eo. Wm. Braddell. > *;•: Royal New Zealand Artillery. To be Lieutenant-Colonel . Major/ (temporary lieutenant-colouel) Herbert Edward Pilkington. ' ' . /-.To be Major. Captain Ivon Tatham Standish. A.FURTHER LIST. The following military appointments, promotions, resignations, and transfers of the Staff, Royal New Zealand Artillery, and Territorial Force have been made: — 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles. Second Lieutenant (on probation) Lancel Lytton King, from the 16th (Waikato) Regiment, to be second lieutenant- (on probation), supernumerary to establishment. Now Zealand Garrison Artillery. ■. Benjamin John Ager, to be second lieutenant. 3rd (Auckland) Regiment.

Captain Alfred Coutts. from the retired list to be captain (temporary). Captain- John Falconer Bwog, from the unattached dist (a),- to be captain (temporary). The following second lieutenants to be lieutenants:—Hat,vyn Stanley Harrison, Cedrio Leonard Knight, Thomas Henry Watson..

6th. (Hauraki) Regiment.

Quartermaster and Captain Joseph Nathan is transferred to the Reserve of Officers.

10th (North Otago) Kegiment.

Sergt. Allan Ritcbio Douglas to bo 2nd lieutenant.

16th (Waikato) Regiment,

2ml Lieutenant (on probation) Lancel Lytton King is transferred to the (>tli (Manaivatu) Mounted Rifles.

Motor Sorvico Corps,

Albert Edward A. M'Dougall (Otago) to bo 2nd lieutenant on probation. Motor Boat Section (Auckland Section). Edward W. Rollings to bo lieutenant. The following to be 2nd lieutenants: —Alfred Geo. Lunn, Walter Douglas Ross, Harry'H. Hemus, Herbert Lonsdale, Alex. M. Wilson, Melton C. Stranger, Major Win. Lane, Wm. A. Wilkinson,.Frank Geo. Fowler.

THE SAMOA GARRISON. Colonel Logan's weekly report on tho healtSi of the Now Zealand troops at Samoa is as follows"Health of troops good. Privates G. Harwood, haeuiorhoids; C. Bakwell, seliaceous cyst; J. i'rlce.hen, cerebral concussion. All doing well. Co-rporal J. Swann, swallowed denturo, still in danger.'-'

DENTAL SERVICE CORPS. The formation of tho Dental Service Corps lias been approved.

DEFENCE RIFLE CLUBS. The Waipukurau Rifle Club and the Alexandra Mounted Defence Rifle Club (Wangamii) have been accepted as rifle clubs under the Defence Act as from November 18. . LONC SERVICE DECORATION. Tho Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' decoration lias been conferred.on: Lieut. (Bandmaster) Win. Valentine' Siddall, ot the Ist (Canterbury) Regiment, who completed twenty years' seixvico on uune 24. •. ' An endeavour has been made to ascertain 'tho number of men who have enlisted from the rifle clubs of New Zealand. At last evening's meeting of tho Wellington Rifle Association, Mr. H. Marshall stated that there were 240 clubs in the country, and that returns wore to hand from half of . them. The membership of tho 120 was 4200. ' That comprised 2650 married men and 1300 men over forty years. Returns to hand showed that 750 members had enlisted, and that 635 of them had been accepted for service. Since the returns weiy compiled more had registered, and it was clear that well over 1000 'memTiers of rifle clubs had signed on for acF.ve servlto. CAMP APPOINTMENTS. Tho following temporary appointments have been made at Tauherenikau: —I'te. C. King, D Sqdn., 9th; to be corporal trumpeter; Pte. E. A. Wylie, *5 Coy., 9th, to be corporal bugler; £ce.-oo'rpl. Davison, Headquarters Staff, Records Office, to be corporal. .. The following temporary appoinU liicnts have been made at Trent-ham Pte. Angus to be Q.M.S., A Coy., Reserve. N.Z.F.A., 9th Reinforcements:— Gnr. Rogers to he corporal farrier; Corpl. Gell to be sergeant; Bomb. Pilciicr to be corporal; Bomb. Robb to bo corporal; ,Gnr. Smith to be bombardier;' Scrgt. Loper, R.N.Z.A., to be sergeant-major' w'hilst' employed at instructional work Trentham Camp. 2nd Reserve Company—Corpl. Hebditch to be Coy. sergeant-major; Corpl. Redmond to be sergeant; Corpl. O'Leary to bo sergeant; Calnan to be sergeant;; Corpl. Meeghan to be ' sergeant; Corpl; Slaps to be sergeant; Corpl. Dowsottto bo sergeant ;• Corpl. Gibbs to.be sergeant; Corpl. Hursthouse to be sergeant. "E" Company, 10th Reinforcements, —Corpl. Jcn'att to be Coy. tmajor; Corpl. Blanshard to be sergeant; Corpl. Johnstone to be' sergeant; Corpl. Jackson to ho sorgjmt; Corpl. Lamb to bo sergeant.