ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1919, Page 10

ON SERVICE

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS

(PKOM OUR OWN CORRESrOSDBNT.)

LONDON, 11th March.

A New Zealander in the Machine Gun Company—Private J. Quinlan, No. 153848—has received the D.C.M. He is with tho 14th Battalion.

Mr. W. H. Bredin, who has been, serving as a chief motor mechanic in the R.N.V.R. for more than two years past, is about to be demobilised and hopes to return to New Zealand forthwith. Mr. Bredin is a native of Derry, and during most of his time in the Service was attached,to the naval base at Lame, his ships being the Vigorous and the Thetis. The last vessel was, of course, withdrawn for the blocking of Ost-end. Mr. S. R. Williams, the son of Mr. W. T. Williams, after'serving - throughout the war in King Edward's Horse, hns gone into residence again at Caius College, Cambridge, where he hopes to take his degree in Juiie. tin all probability he will then return ,with Mr. and Mrs. Williams to New Zealand, and will take up sheep-farming in Hawkes Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Williams and their two daughters came to England in May, 1914, and have remained here throughout the war, doing valuable war work. Mr. S. R. Williams again appears on the rivei rowing in the Caius College boat. Commander J. H. Denniston, D.5.0., R.N (Canterbury), whoso appointment to Keyham College was recently announced, is posted as librarian to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. . Surgeon-Commander S. H. Woods, M.D., 8.A., 0.8.E.', son-in-law of Mrs. R. J. Seddon, is posted to H.M.S. Victorious. Mrs. Woods (nee 'Miss Rubi Seddon) is now visiting New Zealand. ■'_ It transpires from a memorial notice published this week that Lieutenant Ray Parkinson, whose death was announced some time ago, was killed in action with the whole of his crew in a British submarine in March, 1917. The following workers of the War Contingent Association and the New Zealand Red Cross have had their services brought to the notice of the Secretary of State:—Miss E. M. Adkins,-Miss A.'M. Ainger, Mrs. A. Atkinson, Miss E. M. Batchelor, Sirs.- S. L. T- Beere, Miss L. C. Bowen, Mrs. 1. G. D. Collins, Miss J. P. Dryden, Miss C. D. Grant, Mrs. _.'. M. Grigg, Miss A. T. Harper, Miss M. G. Havelaar, Miss E. Johnson', Miss S. M. Lee, Miss E. M. M'Laren, Miss L. E. M'Laren, Mrs. M. L. M'Lean, Miss H. S. Monro, Mr. M. Muir.'Miss M. A. W. Nunn, Miss V. A. Russell, Mrs. M. E. St Hill,' Miss M. Thomson, Mrs. A. L. Weston, Miss E. C. Wilson, Miss L. J. Wilson. ■ ■ , ' '"'. Mr. J. R. Dennison, son of Mr. C.__T. Dennison (formerly of Oamarii) has just arrived in England with his wife and family from Canada. Mr. Dennison left Oaniarn in 1898, and after serving his apprenticeship with J. Anderson and Co. at Lyttelton, was for four years and a half with Morgan and Cable at PortChalmers, and afterwards at tho U.S.S. Company's electrical works at the same place. He left New Zealand in 1904, and after getting further experience on the Tyno, spent nine years in the enginerooms of the Gothic, Runic, Georgic, Tropic, and Megantic—all of the White Star Line. In 1913, Mr. Dennison was appointed assistant superintendent engineer to the Riordan.Pulp and Papal' Company, Hawkesbury, Ontario. A few months later he took up the post of superintendent engineer to the C.P.R. AVestern Hotel Plants, his jurisdiction extending from Calgary to Victoria, B.C. Since then he has been chief engineer to tho Ritz-Carltoh, in Montreal, and during the war has been engaged on munition work for the British Kodak Company at Nobel, Ontario. ,

r Major'G. F. Hutton, D.5.0., of tho .Royal Welsh Fusiliers, retires on retired pay as from the 9th of this month. Captain Hutton was A.D.C. to Lord Islington in 1912-13, and' married a daughter of Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes. ,

Major J. B. Parkes, M.C., who is second in command of- the N.Z. MachineGun Battalion, is gazetted Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Regiment, and remains with the N.Z.E.F. Lieutenant S. T. Stidolph, R..A.F., whe was with the 74th Squadron in Trance, is now back in Leeds. Mr. Stidolph states that No. 74 Squadron ,ivas never entirely composed of New Zealandors, as has been stated. "As-a, matter of fact it has.never had more than three in it at a time."

Engineer Sub-Lieutenant 1?'. O. Way-' moutli has been demobilised. He will remain in '.England some time before returning to New Zealand. Commander M. Barne, R.N., has been in command of the T.B.D. Halcyon,, which has just paid off at Chatham. Mr. A. JS, Oorbett (formerly of Masterton), who has served in the Navy since 1915, when he joined the Wa-hine, has been demobilised, and is now in a stock and sharebroker'B business in London.

The services of Mr. J. S. Waters (Wellington) have been retained by the Ministry of Munitions for a further peripd to carry out certain work at Birtley, so'that he does not expect to get back to New Zealand for some months yet.'. Mr. Waters was granted leave by the Wellington City Council to come to England for war work. He is Assistant Carshed Superintendent. Lieutenant N. A. Arthur, Wellington Regiment, is still attached to the R.A.F., and is stationed at Now Holla-ml, in Lincolnshire.

Paymaster-Commander Francis K. li. Drake, R.N., who was secretary and meteorologist to Captain Scott's last expedition, has just been posted to H.M.S. Research.

Major J. Westmacott is the representative- of tho N.Z.E.F. on the Battle Exploit Memorials Committee, which hns been set up as a medium between the various Allied forces and tho French and Belgian Governments to facilitate tho erection of memorials by individual units ta commemorate exploits on tho field of action.