STAFF CORPS OFFICERS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 4

STAFF CORPS OFFICERS

For The Special Force

lished, more officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps have been selected for service with the Special Force. Their positions and appointments will be gazetted later. Lieut.-Colonel T. J. King, of the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, is a keen Rugby follower, and is a member of the Rugby Union Executive. He had three years in the ranks of the 5th Wellington Regiment, and received his commission early in the last war. Throughout: the whole of his military service Colonel King has been attached to the Ordnance Corps. He joined the Staff Corps on his return from the 191418 campaign and has held various positions on the Headquarters Staff since then. He was gazetted Major in 1926 and Lieut.-Colonel in 1938. Lieut.-Colonel G. B. Parkinson has always been attached to the artillery and is at present officer commanding the Royal New Zealand Artillery. He graduated from the Duntroon Military T addition to the list already pub-

College in Australia in 1916 and went overseas with the 27th Reinforcements, landing in France in August, 1917. Colonel Parkinson was adjutant of the lst New Zealand Field Artillery Brigade until January 28, 1919. On his return from active service he continued with the New Zealand Staff Corps, holding various appointments throughout the Dominion. In 1920 he went to Fiji with a special force and in 1925 he attended a gunnery staff course in England. He was gazetted to his present rank this year. Major F. L, Hunt, who is at present Camp Commandant at Trentham, was on Gallipoli with the Otago Regiment and was seriously wounded in the early days of the Peninsula Campaign. He was invalided to New Zealand and joined the Staff Corps. Until the outbreak of war, Major Hunt was area staff officer in Wellington. Lieut. A. H. Andrews is. attached to the Army Ordnance Corps and at the outbreak of war was an ordnance mechanical engineer at Trentham.