FIELD PROMOTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6

FIELD PROMOTIONS

IN NEW ZEALAND SECOND ECHELON •NON-COMS TRAINING FOR COMMISSIONS. SELECTION OF FURTHER CANDIDATES. (From the Official Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces in Britain). LONDON, November 11. All 38 of the New Zealand noncoms approved some two months ago for training for commissions have now been posted to officers’ cadet training units, every infantryman going to a Brigade of Guards Company. The selection of a further 26 candidates, the first of whom have already begun cadet training, is now announced, as follows: —

Artillery: Lance-Sergeant J. F. Christian. Gunner L. A. Hughan. Bombardier G. S. Woodward. LanceSergeant R. L. Taylor. Sergeant C. W. B. Fountain (all of the Seventh AntiTank Regiment); Battery SergeantMajor N. B. Mitchell, Sergeant C. E. Evans, Sergeant H. E. I. Reanney (all Fifth Field Regiment). Divisional Cavalry: Sergeant W. C. Sutherland.

Infantry: Sergeant G. S. Rogers, Sergeant A. B. Cotterill (both of the Auckland Battalion). Warrant Officer (2) J. Allen, Sergeant K. R. Hutcheson, Staff-Sergeant F. H. Greer, Corporal B. Skean. Warrant Officer (2) S. Catchpole (all of the Wellington Battalion), Staff-Sergeant W. J. Perry, Temporary Warrant Officer (2), A. J. Boag, Warrant Officer (2) A. E. M. Lawrence, Warrant Officer (2) A. N. Buckley, Corporal J. F. M. eMoffatt (all of the South Island Battalion), Warrant Officer (1) A. C. Wood, Sergeant H. M. Mitchell, Temporary Company Sergeant-Major E. C. Pohio (all of the Maori Battalion), Warrant Of-, ficer (2) J. A. P. Worthington, Warrant Officer (2) S. H. Betts (both of the Reinforcement Battalion). Private Geoffrey Cox, Rhodes Scholar and war correspondent, who enlisted in England and served for a brief period with the South Island Battalion, is also now training for a commission, while former Warrant Officer (2) L. H. Stroud, of Ordnance Headquarters, is now a second lieutenant and has earned the distinction of being the first and so far the only soldier of the Second Echelon to be commissioned direct without a special course of training.