MILITARY POSITIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 14

MILITARY POSITIONS

LATEST APPOINTMENTS STAFF CORPS AND TERRITORIALS. The Governor, has approved the appointments, promotions, resignations, and transfers of the undermentioned officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force: — Staff. Captain Hubert Havard Wright, to be Queen Alexandra's 2nd (Wellington major. • West Coast) Mouuted Rifles. The undermentioned to be 2nd lieutenants (temporarily) during the absence of officers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force: — Quartermaster-Sergeant Edward Arthur Hawkins, vice Lieut. Crawshaw. George Lowin Bacon, vice Lieut. O'Dowd. Sergt.-Major Lisle Carrington Jennins, vice Lieut. Jan6on. 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Riflos. .Major .James Gladwin Wynyard, to be lieutenant-colonel. The appointment of 2nd lieutenant (on probation) Arthur Gilbert Quartley is confirmed. 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles. Sergt. Alexander Charles Harry Milno to be 2nd lieutenant. 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles. • The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) John. Ralph Taylor is continued. oth "(Wellington East Coast) Mounted ~ Riiles.Captain James Armstrong to bo major, Wilder tho provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. file appointment of 2nd Lioutenant (on probation) Richard Erroll Wardell Uiddit'ord is confirmed. Sergt. Howard Moore Glazebrook, to be 2nd lieutenant (supernumerary to establishment). Joseph Ward Sturton, to be 2nd lieutenant (temporarily), vice Lieut. Grainger, 1 with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

1 New Zealand Artillery. (New Zealand Field Artillery). ' 2nd) Lieut. Oliver Robert Farrer, ■to bo lieutenant. The appointments of the undermentioned 2nd lieutenants (on probation) hid confirmed: —John Elliot Lindsay 1 Gardner, Edward James Phillips. (Now Zealand Garrison Artillery.) Captain Charles Willis Coles, to be major. Liout. Frederick William Vosseler, to be captain. Corporal Arthur Roger Carre Claridgc,. to bo 2nd lieutenant (supernumerary to establishment), Auckland Garrison Artillery. Division. Eobert Young Walls, to be 2nd lieutenant (temporarily),_ Wellington Garrison Artillery Division, vice Lieut. Johnson, with tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Corps of New Zealand Engineers. (No. 2 Field Company.) •Tohn Thomas Hungerford, to be 2nd lieutenant (temporarily), vice 2nd Lieut. M'Crorie, with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. ; Divisional Signal Companies. 2nd Lieut. Alan Aldrich Dignan, to to lieutenant. Sergt. Gerald Oliphant, to he 2nd lieutenant (temporarily), Divisional Signal Company, Otago, vice Lieut. Lamb, with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Ist Canterbury Regiment. (Coast Defence Detachment.) Sergt. Geoffrey .Tames Conolly, to be Slid lieutenant 'supernumerary to establishment). , • Srd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of ' Ranfurly'e Own). (Coast Oefenco Detachment.) 2nd Lieut. Donald Miliar, to be lieutenant.. 4th (Otago) Regiment. (Coast Defence Detachments.) Liout. Patrick James Keligher, to . be captain. 2nd Lieut. Morroll Gordon M'lnnes is transferred to the Unattached List :<">• . . - Stli (Wellington) Regiment. The appointment of 2nd Lieut, (on probation) Henry Francis Cotter is con,firmed. ' 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment. Lieut. Allan Grinctell Gardiner resigns his commission. Lieut. Vincent, Herbert Trask, from the 12th (Nelson) Regiment, to be lioutena'nt.

11th Regiment (Taranaki) Rifles. Captain Edward Percy Cox, to bo major, under, the provisions oi paragraph, 111, General Regulations, 1913. Lieut. Godfrey Wells, to be captain, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1910. 2nd Lieut. Murray Urquhart, to be lieutenant, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. The appointment of 2nd lieutenant (on probation) Leonard George Mercer is confirmed; 12th (Nolson) Regiment. Lieut. Vincent Herbert Trask is transferred to the 9t.h (Haivke's Bay) Regiment. 16th (Waikato) Regiment. The undermentioned captains to be majors, under the provisions. of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913: William Henderson Gibb, Athol Graham Bissell Price. 2nd Lieut. Herman Stuart Baddeley, to be lieutenant, under the provisions 'of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. 2nd Lieut. Arthur Walter Smith, to be lieutenant. . . 2nd Lieut. Walter William Dove, to be lieutenant, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. The appointment of '2nd Lieut, (on probation) Robert Duft'iis M'Farland is Confirmed, utider tlio provisions. of paragraph'lll, General Regulations, 1913. 17tli (Ruahine) Regiment. .Tlie appointment of 2nd Lieut, (on probation) Sydney Elliot Beattie is confirmed. New Zealand Army Service Corps. Robert Nicholas Todd, to be 2nd lieutenant (on probation). No. 6 Company. Arthur Russell Standish,. to be 2nd lieutenant (temporarily), No. 4 Company, vice Lieut. Swan, with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Lieut, Charles Mackie is transferred to the Reserve of Officers (General List). Now Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps (Motor-car Section). (Wellington Section.) The undermentioned to"be 2nd lieutenants (on probation) Gerald Gaseoyne Beard,' James Whitson Jack. , Major Robert Valpy Fulton, M.D., ti transferred to tho Now Zealand Medical Corps; New Zealand Medical Corps. "Honorary Captain Bernard Myers, ft.Z. Expeditionary Force (British"Section), to be temporary lieut.-coloncl during tlie period of tho war.

Major James Bardie Neil is granted tlie rank of temporary lieutenant-colonel rfhile employed as Officer Commanding Medical Camp at Awapuni. Major Bobort Valpy Fulton, M.D., fr»ni the N.Z. Forces Motor Servico Corps, to bo major. Captain Peter Alexander Lindsay, M.8., to be major. Herbert Cliesson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., R.P.H., is granted the honorary rank of major during.the period of the war. Captain John Craig, from the Reserve oi Officers, to be captain,

Captain John Craig is granted tlie rank of major while employed as a camp medical officer. 'Die undermentioned to ho captains: •—Alan Douglas Anderson; Philip Timothy Putnam, M.D.; Arthur Stanley Moody, M.8., Ch.B. New Zealand Chaplains Department. The liev. Edward Cliarles Woolridge Powell, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, to he 3rd Class. The Rev. John Robert Burgin, Chapkin t-o the Forces, 4th Class, to be 3rd Class. The Rev. Frederick Hands, to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Donald Macaulay, to be Salvation Anuy Chaplain. Unattached List (b). The undermentioned 2nd lieutenants to be lieutenants Marcus David Smith, James Metson, Alfred Thomas White, Arthur Augustus Potter. 2nd Lieut. Kossuth Skoglund, to be lieutenant under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913.