CAMP NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2756, 27 April 1916, Page 6

CAMP NOTES

MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.

H and J Companies, 15th. Infantry Reinforcements (approximate strength 420), will move from Trentham to Featherston Camp by rail on Monday. The recruits' < musketry course (Table A) of these companies will be.carried out at Papawai, ■ Tho 13fcii Infantry Reinforcomeuts, (ess J Company, will move from Featherston on Thursday, -May 11, and proceed by march route, to Trentham, arriving camp before midday on Saturday, May 13. The approximate strength of the draft is. 1500.

The 15th Infantry Reinforcements, loss J and H Companies, will move from Trentham to Featherston Camp by rail on Friday, May y 12. The approximate strength of tho draft' is 1500. if possible, the wholo of this draft will leave Trentham on Friday, May 12, but any men who have not completed their musketry may proceed to Featherston on Saturday May 13. Tho following are the colours allotted to the different units of the 12th Reinforcements :—

Engineers, yellow and black; A Company, rod; B Company,.green: C Company, brown: D Company, blue; E Company, red and green; F Company, red and black; G Company, khaki and yellow; H Company, khaki and blue.

Lieut. A. H. Grierson has booh transferred from the Reserve Squadron and attached to tho I2th Mounted Rifles 'draft. '

2nd Lieut. T. M. Smith, D Coy., 16th Reinforcements, baa been granted sick leave. *

Corpl. F. 'A. Harper, Headquarters Staff Records Office, has been promoted to bo sergeant.

The following have been transferred from the machine-gun section to tho 12th Infantry Reinforcements:—

A Company.—Pte. 15. Wrigloy, Pte. R. Saunders, Pte. J. Lemon. ■'

B Company—Pte. G. A. Tait, Pto. J. Bethune, Pto. J. W. Lewis. C Company—Pie. W. Gray, Pte. F. A. Hammond, Pte. L. B. Hammond. D Company .-Pte. W. 11. Burt, Pte. A. Sharp, Pto. E. Grcenslado, Pte. W. WoolleU.

E Company.—Pto. H. S. Penney, Pte. A. G. Pine, Pte. A. R, Yorke. F ' Company.—Pte. D. M'Dougall, Pte. R, Edgecombe, Pte. E. W. Hart.

■• G Company.—Pto. F. Rushton, Pto. L. Munro, Pte. J. Truman. . II Company.—Lco.-C'orpl. R. J, Smith, I'tc. J. F. Lewis, Pto. P. O'Hagan, Ptc. G Palmer. In the list of n.c.o.'s of the 12th Infantry Keinforeonionts, published yesterday as having been appointed second lieutenants on probation, the namo —C.S.M. J. C. Barten—should havo read J. C. Carter.

SOLDIERS' DANCES. Another dance for soldiers on leave from the camps will bo held at tho Soldiers' Club gymnasium , in Sydney Street to-night. Mrs. Masscy, President of the club; issues n cordial invitation to all soldiers on leave to attend. Last night's dance was a great success. The dances aro under the management of tho House Committee of tho club.