GENERAL HOSPITAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 6

GENERAL HOSPITAL

AND- CONVALESCENT DEPOT ATTACHED TO EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. ANNOUNCEMENT OF STAFF APPOINTMENTS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “A decision to send overseas, attached to the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, a fullyequipped general hospital and a convalescent, depot,- staffed entirely, by New Zealanders, has been made, -after-full consultation with the Imperial authorities,” said the Minister of Defence (Mr Jones) in a statement today. “This step-has been taken with the object of ensuring that New Zealand soldiers will, be treated in their own hospital by doctors and nurses from their own country. The Government; felt that this country should' provide the whole of the services necessary for the comfort and well-being of- the Division it has undertaken to equip and maintain in the field.” The following officers have been appointed:— Officer Commanding Ist General Hospital, Colonel A. C. McKillbp. Officer Commanding Surgical Division. Lieutenant-Colonel T. D. M. Stout. Officer Commanding Medical Division, Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Boyd. Orthopaedic- Surgeon, Major IT. K, Christie. Registrar, Major L. J. Hunter. Ear, eye.. nose, and throat Specialist, Major J. A. Doctor. Physician. Captain A. H. Kirker. Specialist in tropical diseases, Cap- 1 tain E. G; Sayers. Physician. Captain R. D. King. Surgeons. Captain J. Clarke. Captain D.-G. Radcliffe.Radiologist, Captain G. Lynch. Bacteriologist, Captain D. T. Stewart. Medical Officers (the equivalent of house surgeons and physician in a public hospital) Lieutenants P. T. 11. Neil. W. L. Gilmour. 11. M. Forman. F. B. Edmundson, A. McFarlane. Quartermaster. Lieutenant P. N. R. McDonald. Dental Officer Attached. Lieutenant N. M. Gleeson. Chaplains, the Revs M. E. Winhall (Church of- England). R. T. Dodds (Presbyterian). E. Forsman (Roman Catholic). Appointments to the Convalescent Hospital are: Officer- Commanding, LieutenantColonel F. M. Spencer. Sccond-in-Command. Major N. F. Boag, who will be president of the Medical Board attached to the Convalescent Hospital. Major N. C. Speight will be in charge of the First Division of (he Convalescent Depot. Other officers- are: Lieutenants C. S. Preston anil -I. K-. F. Watson. The Dental-Officer attached- i.-> Lieutenant W, G. MlddierttasS: