TERRITORIAL ARMY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 161, 27 March 1918, Page 5

TERRITORIAL ARMY

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

The appointments, promotions, resignations, and transfers of tho undortocnyoatd officers of the Territorial Iforco havo been approved:—

Captain (temporary Lieutenant-Col-<r>nel) Thomas Arthur MaeGibbon, M.8., N.Z. Medjcal Corps, relinquishes the appointment of Assistant Director of Medical Services, Canterbury Military :'3)istriot, ind iihe temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel whilst so employed. Dated February, 7, 1918. Captain Alexander AVilson Hogg, M.8., N.Z. Medical Corps, ia appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services, Canterbury Military District, and is granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel wliilst so employed. Dated February 8, 1918. 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment. Lieutenant Leonard Georgo Meroer, from tho 11th Regiment (Taranaki ltifles) to be lieutenant.. Dated February 28, 1918.

Bth (Southland) Regiment. 2nd Lieutenant George Merivaio Broughton, from tho 12th (Nelson and Marlborough) Regiment, to bo 2nd lieutenant. Dated February 5, 1918. 11 th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). .Lieutenant Leonard George Mercer is transferred to the 7th (Wellington .West Coasf Regiment. Dated February .28, 1918. 12th (Nelson and Marlborough) Regiment. 2nd Lieutenant George Merivaio Broughton is transferred to the Bth (Southland) Regiment. Dated February 0, 1918. . .' 16th (Waikato) Regiment. • Major John Hector Luxford is struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force with effect from April 5, 1918, and. is absorbed into the. regiment with his original rank and seniority therein, viz.. major, as from October 26, 1917. Vide N.Z. Gazette, [Ho. 170, of November 22, 1917. K.Z. Rifleßrigade (Earlof Liverpool's

• Own, Territorial).' . Captain Ronald Gordon Gallien is struck off the strength of the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force, with effect from April 11, 1918, and is absorbed into the regiment with his original rank and seniority therein, viz., lieutenant., as from October 1, 1915. Vide N.Z. Gazette, No. 28, of February 28, 1918.

N.Z. Medical Corps. ■ Captain James- Ayson Marshall, •M.8., is struck off ijie strength of the New Zealand Expeditoinary Force, with effect from March 13, 1918, and is ab- • sorbed with his original rank and seniority, viz., captain, as from September 2, 1915. Vide N.Z. Gazette, No. 128, of November 11, 1915. Lieutenant (temporary) Warren Hastings Young to be captain (temporary). Dated September 1, 1917. James Leslie Will, M.8., ,to be lieutenant. Dated February 20, 1918.

N.Z. Chaplains Department. The Rev. Robert Franklin to be Chaplain to tue Forces, 4th Class. Dated January 24, 1918. The Rev. Joseph Duffy to be chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated .February 27, 1918. The undermentioned Chaplains to the Forces, 4th Class, retire under the provisions of paragraph 127, General Regulations, 1913. Dated March 2, 1918: —Rev. George Brown Inglis, Rev. John Watt.

. N.Z. Army. Nursing Service. The undermentioned to bo staff nurses.. Dated February 27, 1918:— Agnes Ada Earl, Mary Cassandra Roberts, Isabella Burt, Edith, M'Lennau, Eleanor Coutts, Margaret Hopple Thomson, ;.Violet Oppenbeim, Maggie Isobel Aiken, 'Alice , Marip,.. Victoria Pihind, Clara Lee. , The undermentioned to be masseuses. Dated February 27; 1918:— Isabel Couldroy Keys,- Winifred Nancy Hinds Howell, Mary Isabel Saunders, Elizabeth Eleanor Vplckman, Dorothy Agnes Cameron, Jane Northridge Teapa.

Unattached List (B). Lieutenant Joseph W. H. Edwards,' from the late Waihi Rifle Volunteers, to be captain, with seniority as from December 23, 1909: Captain Joseph iW. H. Edwards retires under the provisions of paragraph 127, General Regulations, 1913. Dated March 7, 1918. The undermentioned 2nd lieutenants to be lieutenants: —Allan Innes Walker, dated August 6, 1914; Mawson Swan Cameron, dated January 9, 1916; Henry William' Hubert Coatcs, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913, dated February 12, 1917; Kenneth Alexander Sneddon, dated, May 4, 1917; Robert John Thompson, dated August 17, 1917 ; Stanley Ruddook, dated October 28, 1917; -Reginald Herbert Owens, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913, dated March 2, 1918; Richard Edward Andrew, M.C., under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913, dated March 4,1918. ' The undermentioned 2nd lieutenants (temporary) to • be 2nd lieutenants. Dated August 21, 1917:-William Wilfred Garton, John Dash, Basil Breniand. "Colour-Sergeant Charles Stanley Marshall to be 2nd lieutenant. Dated March 2, 1918. 1 'The appointment of ItA. lieutenant (on probation) Edgar Frank Snell lapses under the provisions of paragraph 89, General Regulations, 1913. Dated March 6, 1918. The undermentioned to be 2nd lieutenants (temporary):—Edgar Frank Snell, dated March 6, 1918; Corporal Jack Lawrens Cameron, dated March 5. 1918; 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Sidney« Charles Gascoigne resigns his appointment. Dated March 2, 1918. Unattached List .(b), General List. Captain William Harry Hawkins is fctruck oft' the strength ot the N.Z.E.F. with effect from April 11, 1918, and is posted to the Unattached List (b), General List, with his original rank and seniority, siz, captain, as from June 24, 191b. Captain Leslie Champion is struck off the strength of the N.Z.E.F. with effect from April 11, 1918, and is absorbed with his'original rank and seniority, viz., 2nd lieutenant, as from May 31, 1915. Vide N.Z. Gazette, No. 150, of October 4, 1917. 2nd Lieutenant Edward Gerrard Baddeley to be lieutenant. Dated January 13, 1918. • 2nd Lieutenant Frederick William Gruar is struck off the strength of the N.Z.E.F. with effect from April 5, 1918, and is absorbed with his or'ginal rank and seniority, viz., 2nd lieutenant, as from September 23, 1916. Vide N.Z. Gazette, No. 107, of September 21, 10J.6. 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Topping Donaldson is struck off the stremrth of tho N.Z.E.F. with effect from April 11, 1918, and is posted to the Unattached List (b), General List, with his original rank and- seniority, viz., 2nd lieutenant, as from May 24, 1917. Lieutenant Wilfred Bryan Fitchctt is struck off the strength of the N.Z.E.F. with effect from April 1. 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority, viz., 2nd lieutenant, as from >lay 13, 1916. Vide G.-uette, No. 150, of October 4, 1917. ' Sergeant Alfred John _ White, N.Z.E.F., appointed 2nd lieutenant (on probation), August 2, 1917, is con firmed in his appointment. 2nd Lieutenant Alfred John White is struck off tho strength of the N.Z.E.F. with,effect from March 20, 1918, and

is absorbed with his original r'ank and seniority, viz., 2nd lieutenant, as from August i, 1917. Regimental Sergeant-Major Kruost Leonard Guy Brown is granted tho temporary rank of lieutenant whilst employed ns physical training and bayonet fighting instructor in Itxpeditioiisiry Force Training Camps. Dated February 23, 1918.