TERRITORIAL FORCES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2842, 5 August 1916, Page 14

TERRITORIAL FORCES

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS

LATEST LIST

His Excellency flic Governor has approved of the following Appointments, promotions, resignations and transfers of flic undermentioned officers of the stuff,' New Zealand Stuff Corps, and tlio Territorial Forces:— , Staff. " Captain Henry A. Cooper (otli Lancers), Imperial General Staff, is granted the temporary rank of major while servin.tr with the N.Z. Military Forces, and with effect from .July 21, 1816. New Zealand Staff Corps. Lieutenant (temporary Captain) George 0. S. JJyer to be captain, dated April 1, -916. ' Lieutenant Ferdinand .1. Wood to be captain, dated April 1, 1910. 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles. Captain Joseph T,. Pra'ser-Hurst, Unserve of Officers, is transferred to the N.SS. Medical Corps, dated September H J'JM. . / SuT (South Canterbury) Mounted Hides. Harry B. S, Johnstone to be 2nd lieutenant (temp.), vice 2nd Lieutenant Dailey on active service, dated Julv 21 19IG. ' lltli (North Auckland) Mounted Riiies. Lot Cooper to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.), vice 2nd Lieutenant Snieriiev, oil 'active service, dated July 17, 13Iu. New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps. Captain AYilliani John Worthington to be major, dated July 1, 1916. . . 4th (Otago). Regiment. 2nd Lieutenant L'ric Claude Speddin™ to .tie lieutenant under the provisions o? Paragraph 3, Uenerai Regulations, 1813, dated July 12; 191(i. dtii (Haurak'i) Regiment. Henry Thomas Gibson to be 2nd lieutenant (temp.), vice 2nd Lieutenant tfray, on active service, dated July la, 1.516. ' , ,7th (Wellington-West Coast) Regiment. Captain "William "Winchester, irom tlio Reserve of Officers (12th Nelson .Regiment), to be captain, dated November 22, WIS. ■ ; Bth (Southland) Regiment. 2nd 3-ieiitehant'Frederick'j. "W. Stewart to be lieutenant, with seniority next below Lieutenant ,'J\ AV. Hammond,' dated April 1, 1911. I-tli-. (Nelson) . Begiment. Captain William Winchester (Reserve or Officers) is transferred to the 7th (Wellington West Coast) iiegiment, dated November 22, 191b. rs'ew Zealand Army Service Corps. The notice published in New Zealand Gazette, dated February 25,. 1915, relative to the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Anhur I{. Busheli, Is cancelled. Percy It. Chapman to be 2nd lieutenant (temp.), i\!o. s Company,. vice 2nd Lieutenant Millies, oil active service, dated July 17, 1916. New .Zealand Medical Corps. Tile undermentioned to be captains:— James A; M'acrtbuen, M.8., M.S., Aberd., dated Mr.rch la-, 1916; Thomas F. Tellord, M.U., D.F.n., (iated July i, 1916; Edwin C. Hayes, > M.R.C.S.. Eng., L.U.C.i'., Loncl., dated July 17, 1918; Theodore U. tjrav, M.8., Ch.B.; Aberd., dated August 1, *1918. The undermentioned to be "(temporary) captains:—David H. Young, M.8., M.S., Edin., dated July >11, 1916; George G. Kenny, M.8., C.ltf., Gins., dated July 15, 1910.' New Zealand Dental Corps. Torrance I'. Cuddie ,to be 2ml lieutenant, dated July 7, 1916. New, Zealand Veterinary Corps. - The undermentioned to be captains:— Richard H. "Meade, iI.it.C.V.S., Lond., dated July 1, 1916; AViliiam C. Barry, i1.1t.C.V.5., dated July i, 191 G. New Zealand Chaplains' Department. The undermentioned chaplains to tlia Forces .'i-ith.. Class) to be chaplains 3rd Class:—Tho' Venerable' Archdeacon John A. Jacob, dated January 1, 1910; the Reverend Frederick AV. Boys, dated June 27, 1916; the Kevei;end Simeon G. Griffith to be clinplain to the Forces, (dth Class), dated July 12, ,1916. Kew Zealand'.Army Nursing Service. Nora Leslie Huglies to be staff nurse, dated- May 111* 1916. "Unattached List .(b). undermentioned 2nd lieutenants to be heutauants:—Oliver S. Ellis, dated May .31, 1915; Henry \V. o.' Slater, dated August 23, 1915; Arthur R. Bushel! to be '2nd lieutenant (on probation), General List, dated February 10, 1915. Sergeaut-Major Bruce Hutton to be 2nd lieutenant, dated July 15, 1916. Arthur E. Turner to be 2nd lieutenant (temp.), dated July H, 191 G. Robert Carnaehan to be 2nd lieutenant (temp.), vice 2nd Lieutenant Cheeseman, on active service, dated July 17, 1916. The notice published in tlie New Zealand Gazette, No. 75, of July o', 1916, relative to 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Percy AV. Sampson, - -relinquishing his appointment as supply officer, AVelliiigtoji docks, -and is temporarily retained on. the strength, da'ted June 6, 1916, is cancelled. Memorandum. Honorary Lieutenant Alexander M. Wighton (Reserve of Officers) is transferred from ship's quartermaster H.M. N.Z. transport Wailiora, to ship's quartermaster H.M. A T .Z. transport AA 7aiteniata, with the rank of lieutenant, and with, effect from July 11, 1916. ■ Lieutenant Forbes H. Anderson, New Zealand' Army Service Corps proceeds oil'active service, with seniority in the Expeditionary Force as from February 12, 1916. ,