OFFICER CADETS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 8

OFFICER CADETS

New Zealanders Training For Commissions (From the Official War Correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces in Britain.) BRITAIN, November 11. AU 38 New Zealand non-com-missioned officers approved some two months ago for training for commissions have now been posted to officer cadet training units, every infantryman going to the Brigade of Guards Company. The selection of an additional -6 candidates, the first of whom, have already begun cadet training, is now announced as follows: —Artillery. Lance-Sergeant J. F. Christian, Gunner L. A. Hughan, Bombardier G. S. Woodward, Lance-Sergeant R. L. Taylor, Sergeant C. W. B. Fountain (all Seventh Anti-tank Regiment Battery), Sergeant-Major N. B. Mitchell, Sergeant C. E. Evans, Sergeant IL E. I. Reanney (all Fifth Field Regiment). Divisional Cavalry: Sergeant W. 0. Sutherland. Infantry: Sergeants G. S. Rogers and A. B. Cotterill (both Auckland Battalion), Warrant Officer II J. Allen, Sergeant K, R. Hutcheson, Staff-Sergeant F. H. Greer, C-orporal B. Skean, Warrant Officer II S. Catchpole (all Wellington Battalion), StaffSergeant W. J. Perry, Temporary Warrant Officer HA. J. Boag, Warrant Officer II A. E. M. Lawrence, Warrant Officer II A. N. Buckley, Corporal J.' F. M. Moffatt (all South Island Battalion), Warrant Officer I A. C. Wood, Sergeant 11. M. Mitchell, Temporary Company Sergeant-Major E. C. Pohio (all Maori Battalion), Warrant Officer II J. A. P. Worthington, Warrant Officer II S. H. Betts (both Reinforcement Battalion),

Private Geoffrey Cox, a Rhodes Scholar and English war correspondent, who enlisted in England and served briefly with the South Island Battalion,' is also in training for a commission. Former 'Warrant Officer II L. 11. Stroud, Ordnance Headquarters, is now 2nd Lieutenant and has earned the distinction of being the first and so far only soldier in the Second Echelon to be commissioned direct without a special course of training.