NEW ZEALAND ARMY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 1, 26 September 1917, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND ARMY

TERRITORIAL CHANGES LIST ISSUED YESTERDAY The following appointments, -promotions, resignations, and transfers in the Territorial Force have been made: — Major John H. Chisholin, Queen Alexandra's 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles, is appointed Area Oamaru, with the rank and pay of captain whilst so employed. Honorary llajor George T. Girdler, Retired list, Now Zealand Medical Corps, is appointed a member of a Special District Medical Board, and granted the pay lieutenant-colonel at _ Expeditionary Force rates whilst' so acting. 'Manawatu Mounted Rifles. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Albert Samuel, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength and absorbed into the establishment as a major. ' South Canterbury Mounted Rifles. Lieutenant Henry J. C. Harper from the Reserve of Officers (General List) to bo lieutenant. Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles. Captain Montgomery 0. Grainger, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, jb struck off the strength and absorbed into the establishment as a captain. Nelson Mounted Rifles. The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant George L. Comer is confirmed. To be lieutenant—George Edmund Parsons. . ' Charles A. Forrest to be bandmaster, with the honorary rank of lieutenant. Captain Sydney V. Trask (Reserve of Officers) is transferred to the N.Z. Army I'ay Department. Railway Engineers. Lieutenant Arthur V. Williams is transferred to the North Canterbury and Westland Regiment. Post and Telegraph Corps, South Island. _ Lieutenant George Biruie to be captain. Otago Regiment. . 2nd Lieutenant Charles E. Gilbert is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Hawke's Bay Regiment. Lieutenant John W. Snaddpn, Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength and absorbed into the establishment as a 2nd lieutenant. . Rifle Brigade. . , 2nd Lieutenant Rupert C. Woo( j{ "f£"'' peditionary Force, is struck oft; the strength and absorbed into the establishment as a. 2nd lieutenant. Medical Corps. , . Lieutenant Arthur H. A. Vivian to he captain. , • ■ •- Dental Corps. Lieutenants to be temporary captains— Arthur- G. Jones and Eric Spencer Bayley. Chaplains Department. Rev. Peter T. Fortune, 3rd Class, retires with permission to retain his rank and wear uniform. ~ ' . .„j To retire—Rev. David Jamieson and Rev. John C. Small. Army Nursing Service. Nina Ansenne to be Staff nurse. Unattached List (b). Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Richard E. J. Martin relinquishes the temporary rank of captain on ceasing bis duties as a ship's quartermaster on transports. ~ Lieutenant Norman A. Vercoe, Ex P e <)>- tionary Force, is struck off the strength and absorbed as a lieutenant. William H. Hoult to be 2nd lieutenant (temporary). Unattached List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant Martin H..8. Burrell is temporarily attached for duty to the corps of Engineers, No. 3 'Field Compaiy. Major Robert M. Gairdher, Southland Mounted Rifles, is appointed officer commanding the detachment on Quarantine Wand and officer in charge of guards on transports at Port Chalmers, ■ with, the rank and pay of captain. Lieutenant Arthur S. Bailey, TJnattached List (b), is appointed an attesting officer uudor the Military Service Act, 1916. .-. ■■ • . ■-"'■ .. 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant) Edgar T.' Shand, sth Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars), performed the duties of adjutant to the Otago University Officers' Training Corps from July dU, 1917, and is confirmed in the appointment as from that date. Waikato Mounted Rifles. Lieutenant George F. Teres, to be eapalD' Field Artillery. ./' • 2nd Lieutenant Frank S. Wilding, B Battery.rto be lieutenant. _ 2nd* Lieutenant Charles H. Millar, L Battery, to be lieutenant. /■ Auckland Garrison Artillery. • . Captain Douglas R. Kirker, to be ■major - . ' William A. Wilson, to be 2nd lieutenant supernumerary to establishment. Post and Telegraph Corps (North Island). . Charles M. Thompson, to be 2nd lieutenant (temporary). . North Canterbury and Westland . Regiment. Captain Loftus J. Gibbs, to major. 2nd Lieutenant Eric W. J. Million, to be lieutenant. Rifle Brigade. ;■ - -2nd. Lieutenant -Thomas. ; L. JVilson (Expeditionary Force) is struck ofi: the strength and absorbed into the;cstabiisn- : ment as a 2nd lieutenant as from April 1, 1916, vide N.Z. Gazette, No. liv, of December 14, 1916. Motor-car Section (Wellington). 2nd Lieutenant John T'.Midwood to be lieutenant. ~ , v. Medical Corps, James N. Edgar to be lieutenant. Robert L. Christie, to be lieutenant. . Dental Corps. ; Captain John S. Fairchild (N.Z. Expeditionary Force is struck off tna ■ strength, and absorbed as a lieutenant (tehipornry captain). Chaplains Department. The- Rev.' D. Dutton (Expeditionary Force), 3rd Class, is struck off Hie strength, and absorbed. Army Pay Department. Staff Sergeant Henry F. Griffin is appointed command paymaster (temporaj--ilv), Otago Military District, an*, is granted the temporary rank of lieutenant, whilst so employed. Unattached List (b). The undermentioned 2nd lieutenants to be lieutenants:-David Y. SemmeU, Cuthbert H. Adams. William M. Th m George Tooman, Harry B. Taylor, ana Arthur G. Mabee. „ „, ~ 2nd Lieutenant Claude H. 1. (Fv wditionary Force) is struck off the KthTVabsorbed as a lieutenant Colour-Sergeant Walter J. B. Chrisio lieutenant (temporary). Unattached List (b), General List. : The undermentioned to be 2nd heuten- ■ antst-Stanley-R, Auriin, Me»ton, ! ant ' Memoranda. ta^wr^»oPtbe r Sx ; from October 17, 1917. __