MILITARY POSITIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2645, 16 December 1915, Page 5

MILITARY POSITIONS

»— ". OMCERS PROMOTED THB NEW DENTAL; CORPS CHAPLANS AND NURSES Tho following: military promotions iud appointments have been made':— Permanent staff. Staff Sergt.-Major Jojin Tliomson (warrant olEcer) is ip'aiitecl the- honorary rank of • lieutenant during the war. Tfie Medloal side. Major J. Sands Elliott, to be Lieut.Colonel while aoting as P.M.0,. of the Wellington District. Major Philip 0. Andrew, to be Lieut.Colonel and P.M.O. Trentham Camp. Surgeon-General Skermari, V.D., Reserve of Offloera, to be actively employed as camp medioal officer,. with rank of Lieut.-OoloiipJ., Capt. Louis E. Bamefct, R.A.M.C., is attached for duty 'with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and is granted tho rank of Major, while so employed. - , Capt. Garnett> Wilson Harty is grant- . Ed the temporary rank of Major, while acting as Officer Commanding A Section No. 4 Figld Ambulance:. Capt. Rhoderick Maokenzie Gnnn is granted the temporary rank of Major While employed as a' camp medical officer. . . Capt. Bernard John Dudley is attached to No. 1 Field Ambulance, and granted the temporary rank of Msjor during; absence of ■ Lieut.-Colonel Tracy Russell Inglis, with the Expeditionary Forco. , Capt. Geo. LapraiK is granted the temporary rank of. Major -while employed with the New Zealand .Expeditionary Foroe. Arthur Stanley Herbert is to be captain during tth'e period of the war. Capt. Henry Percy PickerTll is transferred to the New Zealand Dental Service Corps,. N.Z. Dental Service Corps. In the New Zealand Dental Service Corps tho following appointments have been made:— Alexander Hunter, to be Director with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. Capt. Henry Percy Pickerill, from the_ New Zealand Medical Corps, to be assistant director, with .the, rank of Major. Norman John Ri&worth, to be .an , (executive officer with the rank of Major. N.Z. Army Nursing Servloe Corps. To be matrons: Jessie Bicknell, Ftanfces Keith Payne, Jessie Orr, Mabel -Thurston, Margaret Myles. .' . To bo sister: Alexandra Keddie. To bo nurses: Letitia Miller, Florence Sugden. Margaret Shuker, Doris 'Arrowsmith, Kathleen Adelaide Woodward, Annie ißose. ' N.Z. Chaplains' Department. The undermentioned to be Chaplains the Forces: The Revs. Chas. Addenaroke, Wm. Wallace, Chas. Herbert, Harry. Alex. Johnson. ■