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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lieutenant-Colonel Norris S. Falla, C.M.G., D. 5.0., has been appointed to the command of the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade.

Colonel Alexander E. Stewart, C.M.G., D. 5.0., A.D.C., has been appointed to command the Southern Infantry Brigade.

Lieutenant-Colonel John L. Short, who has been transferred to the British Army, has relinquished his commission in the New Zealand Force.

Lieutenant John G. Grant, V.C., has been transferred to the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, from the Reserve of Officers.

Mr. -Samuel Williams died at Greymouth last week when on a visit to that, township, at the age of fifty-nine years. For many years he was in business at Christchurch and Timaru. The death occurred at Clive on Saturday of a Crimean veteran in the person of Mr. John William Graham, at the age of 85 years. The late Mr. Graham was only 20 when he went to Crimea with the 65th Regiment, and after the evacuation he returned to London. Later he came to New Zealand with his regiment, arriving in the Dominion in 1862.

Mr. J. Balsillie, of Palmerston North, has founded a scholarship memorial in connection with the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, in memory of his son, William John Balsillie, an old boy of the school, who made the supreme sacrifice in the late war. The bequest is in the form of a bond for £4OO in New Zealand inscribed stock, .maturing in April, 1939.