N.Z. ARMY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2768, 11 May 1916, Page 9

N.Z. ARMY

APPOINTMENTS MADE c • [ THE TERRITORIAL FORCE E ' The appointments, promotions, rcsignations, and transfers of the undermention- . Ed ofiicers of the Territorial I'oTce have 1 been approved:— s 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. I Bandmaster Henry Seymour to be honI. onuy lieutenant, temporarily, during the i absence of Honorary Lieutenant (Band- ' Jester) Whalley Stewart, on service with i the A.Z. Expeditionary Force. : sth Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars). J Captain Alexander John Sutherland i is struck off the strength of .tho . jN.Z. Expeditionary Force, and is absorb- . cd into the establishment. , 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rides. _ The undermentioned captains to lie maJOrs, under the provisions of Paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913 :-Charles Dick, Norman Frederick Hastings. George Dncre Hamilton. The undermentioned lieutonants to be captains under tho provisions of Paragraph. 111, General Emulations, 1913:John Adam Somervillo, John Burnet Davis. Tiho undermentioned second lieutenants to ho lieutenants:—Douglas GiffordMoore. Gorman Chambers Harris (since died o£ wounds), Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop, John Ealph Taylor, Heuben Jamos Bird. Tho appointment of Second Lieutenant (on probation) Lancel Lytton King is confirmed. Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Eifles. Willianij'Henry Orbell to be second lieutenant (on probation), supernumerary to cstablienment. 9th (Wellington-East Coast) Mounted ' Eifles," Tho undermentioned to be second lieutenants (temporary) during tho absence of officers with the N.Z. Expeditionarv Force:—Hugh M'Lean Campbell, vice Lieutenant Grant; . Robert M'Clannand Sprott, \ v ice Lieutenant Nilsson. New Zealand Garrison Artillery. Captain John Percy Edwin Vcale, to ,bs major. Tho appointment of Sebond Lieutenant (on. probation) Benjamin Jdhn Ager is confirmed. Corps of New Zealand Engineers. Mounted Signal Troops.—Secoud Lieutenant Ralph. Eanstead; to be lieutenant; oth (Wellington), Regiment. Second Lieutenant Leslie James Maule, from thel7th (Ruahine) Regiment,' to be second lieutenant (supernumerary to establishment). . 7th (Wellington-West Coast) Regiment. Lionel Lancelot Hitcnings, to be lieutenant (temporary), vice Lieutenant Bell/ with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. : The undermentioned to bo.second lieutenants, (temporary) during the absence of officers with the..N.Z. Expeditionary Force:—Norman Graham Armstrong, vice Lieutenant Keesing;. Richard Acton Davis, vice Lieutenant C'owie; Second Lieutenant (temporary) Charles Eobert Hubbard, fr.om the ltth Regiment (Tar'a-, naki) Rifles, to bo second lieutenant (temporary), vice Lieutenant Bain. 11th Regiment (Taranaki) Rifles. Second Lieutenant (temporary) Charles Kobert Hubbard is transferred to the 7th (Wellington-West Coast) Regiment. 17th (Ruahine) Regiment, Second Lieutenant Leslie James Maule is transferred to the sth (Wellington) Regiment; Second Jjioutenant Ernest Harold Morton resigns his commission. New Zealand Army Service Corps. ' Lieutenant (on probation) Thomas Goldsborougb. Stockwell, to bo lieutenant. The appointment of Second Lieutenant (on probation) Cecil Francis Jcllie is confirmed. ■.-'.-■' - • -■ New Zealand Medical Corps. Hugh Hunter, M.8.8.5., to be temporary captain, while employed as medical officer in a military camp in New Zealand. Now. Zealand Chaplains' Department. Tho Rev. GeoTgo King is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and is absorbed. The Rev. Thomas Halliday, to be chaplain to the Forces (4th class). Unattached List. (b). .

The appointment of Second Lieutenant (on probation). Prank Cargill Wade is confirmed.