THIRD ECHELON OFFICERS

Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 10

THIRD ECHELON OFFICERS

THE APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 12. An extensive list of appointments to the Third Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with seniority in the units as indicated, taking effect in most cases from August 27 last, is gazetted to-night. Ihe list includes the following:— —6th Field Regiment N.Z. . Artillery.— Licutenant-colonol C. E. Weir, Royal New Zealand Artillery, commanding officer. , . . Major C. L. Walter, second in command (temporary). Major J. M. Mitchell, battery commander. . , Captain (temporary Major) A. 1. Rawle, battery commander (temperary). —7th Anti-tank Regiment, 33rd Battery.— Major R. E. Sleigh. Second N.Z. Divisional Signals.— Major G. H. Heal. New Zealand Staff. Corps. —24th (Auckland) Battalion.— Lieutenant-colonel C. Shuttleworth, New Zealand Staff Corps, commanding officer. ' ' Major A. C. W. Mantell-Harding, second in command.. Major F. G. Dill, company commander. Major R. B. Closer, company commander. i

Lieutenant-colonel A. S. Wilder, commanding officer (temporary colonel as from August 28 while holding the appointment of officer commanding the Third Echelon). Major S. M. Satterthwaite, New Zealand Staff Corps, second in command. „ Major C. D. A. George, company commander. * Major C._ J. Williams, company commander. —26th ((Canterbury-Otago) Battalion.— 1 Lieutenant-colonel J. R. Page, Royal New Zealand Artillery, commanding officer. , . Major J. M. Samson, second in command. Major F. J. Brook, company commander. • Major N. A. Rattray, company commander. —Headquarters Second N.Z. Expeditionary Force Base.— Captain (temporary Major) H. E. Crosse, administrative and conducting officer, 14th and 15th Forestry Companies, N.Z.E. —Railway Operating Group, N.Z. Engineers.— Lieutenant-colonel A. H. Sage, commanding officer, headquarters N.Z. Railway Operating Group, N.Z.E. Major F. W. Aicken. officer commanding 16th N.Z. Railway Operating Company, N.Z.E. Major J. A. Jull, headquarters. N.Z. Railway Operating Group, N.Z.E. Major G. T. Poole, officer commanding 17th N.Z. Railway Operating Company, N.Z.E. —l3th Railway Construction Com- • ,pany, NiZ.E.— Major R. L. Smith, officer commanding. —l9th Armv Troops Company, ' N.Z.E.— ' i Major C. Langbein, officer commanding. —N.Z. Medical Corps.— Lieutenant-colonel F. M. Spencer (temporary' colonel while holding the appointment of officer commanding the No. 2 Nerf Zealand General Hospital). Lieutenant-colonel W. H. B. Bull, officer commanding 6th Field Ambulance. N.Z. Medical Corps. Major J. L. R. Plimraer, second in command of the 6th Field Ambulance, N.Z.M.C. Major A. L. de B. Noakes, registrar No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital. Major D. Pottinger (temporary lieutenant-colonel while holding the appointment of officer commanding the Medical Division of the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital). Major P. A. Arclagh (temporary lieutenant-colonel while holding the appointment of officer commanding the Surgical Division of the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital). Captain (temporary major) G. F. V. Anson, No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital (anesthetist). —N.Z Army Nursing Service.— Sister in temporary charge. Sister D. F. Gatenby. —N.Z. Dental Corps.— Major J. A. S. Mackenzie, officer commanding the 2nd New Zealand Divisional Mobile Dental Section, N.Z.D.C. PROVISIONAL CAMP APPOINTMENTS. New provisional appointments to 'units of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in various camps in the Dominion have been announced at Military Headquarters. They include the appointment, as battalion commander, of Lieutenant-colonel J. B. Mawson, M.C.-, head master of St. An- » drew’s College, Christchurch, who will go to Ngaruawahia. The full list is as follows: Infantry, to Ngaruawahia Camp.— Lieutenant-colonel J. B. Mawson, M. as C.O. Battalion; Lieutenant A. A. Cooper, as quarter-master; Captain S. S. H. Berkeley, as company commander. Artillery, to Papakura Camp.—Captain J. F. Stark. 35th Battery, N.