ARMY PROMOTIONS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 2

ARMY PROMOTIONS

Appointments In Senior Ranks N.Z. MILITARY FORCES The following appointments and promotions of officers on active service witn the 2u<J. N.Z.E.Ii 1 . overseas were gazetted last night:— N.Z. Medical Corps. Captain (temp. Major) L. A, Bennett to be Major. N.Z. Artillery. Major J. A. Brotherton and Major G. J. O. Stewart, D. 5.0., to be Lieut.-Golon-els (temp.) while comanding regiments. Captain G. P. Hanna fo, be M”? 01 (temp), while’.employed as Brigade Major, N.Z. Divisional Artillery. . Captain DJ.B7 Patterson to be Major. N.Z. Infantry. Lieut.-Colonel D. F. Leckie to be Col--onMajoC“R.)W:;Harding,nMajoC“R.)W:;Harding, M.M ; , E.D., to be Lieut.-Colqnel-(temp.) while commanding a battalion'.' . . . The following Captains (temp. Majors) to be Majors: A. J. Crisp, A. E. B. Burge, R. Tj. Hutchens. , — v-. t>- x Captains A. S. Playle and E. E. Richards to be Majors (temp.) while commanding companies. Captain W. B. Thomas to be Major (temp.) while employed as,General Staff Officer, 2ud Grade, Middle East Training Centre. ' „ ~ Pacific Section. Captain C. W. H. Ronaldson to be Major (temp.) while employed as Commandant and Chief Instructor, Divisional School of Instruction. N.Z. Infantry. The following Majors (temp.) to be Majors: B. H. Pringle, J. M. Reidy, J. A. Morris. N.Z. Army Nursing Service. Matron (temp.) D. M. Hall to be Matron. The following appointments and promotions of officers of the N.Z. Military Forces were gazetted last night:— . The following Captains to be Majors (temp.): 8. F. Marshall, M. S. Myers, D. A. Solomon. N.Z. Artillery. Captains D. 0. Watson and L. D. Lovelock to be Majors (temp.) while commanding batteries. ■ N.Z. Engineers. ■ Major A. Murray to be Lieut-Colonel (temp.) Captain S. E. Anderson to be Major (temp.) and is appointed to command a Field Park Company. . Captain A.. H. Johnston to be Major (temp.) ■ -■• ' N-Z. Signals. Major D. KEißurns to be Lieut.-Colonel (temp.) Captain K. H. Wilson to be Major (temp.) N.Z. Infantry. The following Captains to be Majors (temp.) : J. F. Moffat, E. L. Barker, K. Haslett, F. L. Rees, A. J. Morten, J. 0. Braithwaite, I. G. O’Neill, N. J. T. Webster. N.Z. Medical Corps. Major E. Y. Comrie to be Officer Commanding a General Hospital and is granted the temporary rank'of Lieut.-Colonel. Captain N. H. North -to be Major (temp.) N.Z. Dental Corps. Captain A. I. McGowan to command a Mobile Dental Section, and is granted the temporary rank of Major. N.Z. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Mrs. Vida Eliza Jowett to be Chief Commander, and is appointed Commandant, Army Headquarters. Miss Dorothy Hawkins to be Senior Commander, and is appointed Commandant, Northern Military District. Mrs. Mary Eulnlie Whyte to be Senior Commander, and is appointed Commandant, Central Military District. Matron Jean N. Erwin, N.Z. Army Nursing Service, to be Senior Commander, and is appointed Commandant, Southern Military District. Mrs. Louisa Kerr to be Junior Commander, and is posted to a Southern Military District Training Camp. Miss Olivo Rita Barron to be Junior Cammander, and is posted to a Central Military District Training Camp. Miss Ruth Eleanor Niblock to be Subaltern, and is appointed staff Officer, Army Headquarters. Misses Geraldine Vida McOluro and Joau Hogg to be Junior Subalterns, and are posted to the School of Artillery. Miss Mary Martin to be Junior Subaltern; and is appointed Physical and Itercreational Officer, School of Artillery. Miss Barbara Anne Browne to be Junior Subaltern, aud is appointed Officer in Charge of an Overseas Section.

Mrs. Jane Edward Grant Bachelor to be Junior Subaltern and is appointed Cipher Officer, Army Headquarters.