EDUCATION IN ARMY
Arrangements Being Made
For Scheme DIRECTOR APPOINTED
An announcement that arrangements were being made for a scheme of educational training in the Army, and that War Cabinet had approved of the appointment of Mr. Douglas George Ball, M.A., LL.M., senior inspector of schools, to the position of Director of Army Welfare and Education, was made last night by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones. Mr. Ball will be given the honorary rank of lieutenantcolonel. Mr. Ball served overseas in the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force from January 8, 1916, to April 24, 1919, and was promoted to commissioned rank on May 30, 1918. He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatches published in the London Gazette on May 15, .1917. At present Mr. Ball is commanding officer of the Makara Battalion of the Home Guard.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 4
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138EDUCATION IN ARMY Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 4
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