EDUCATION IN ARMY
ARRANGEMENTS FOR SCHEME IN HAND APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR Wellington. This Day 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 lieutenant-colonel. Mr Ball served overseas in the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force from Bth January, 1916. to 24th April, 1919. and was promoted to commissioned rank on 30th May. 1918, He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Ilaig’s dispatches published in the London Gazette on 15th May. 1917. At present Mr Ball i commanding officer of the Makara Bat talion of the Home Guard —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 3 September 1942, Page 4
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