Personal

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 4

Personal

Colonel E. Puttick, D.S.O., who will command the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 2nd New Zealand Division, and Colonel R. Miles, D.S.O., M.C., who will command the Divisional Artillery, have both been promoted Brigadiers. This rank is equivalent to that of BrigadierGeneral in the last war. Colonel Kenneth MacCormick, D.S.O., of Auckland, has been appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services of the 2nd New Zealand Division overseas. Major J. L. McAlister, M.C., has taken over command of the Wellington Company of the New Zealand Scottish Regiment. He served with the Rifle Brigade during the last war. Capt. G. Heal, who is acting orderly officer to Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C., is an old boy of Wellington College who was selected by competitive examination as a cadet for the New Zealand Staff Corps and was commissioned trom the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He has been aide-de-camp to the Administrator of Samoa, and has completed a course in signals at Cattrick, England. Capt. E. T. W. Love, a company commander with the Wellington Regiment, has been posted to the Maori Battalion of the Special Force. A. R. M. Bowie, who has been posted for training at Burnham as an n.c.o. for the second echelon, is one of the last of New Zealand’s front-rank alpine guides. Known throughout New Zealand and in climbing circles all over the world as " Mick," he had been climbing in the Mt. Cook. district for many years before he enlisted. He had been chief guide at The Hermitage for the past two seasons, except for a six months’ trip into Yunnan through French IndoChina with a New Zealand party last year. William Jordan, only son of the New Zealand High Commissioner, W. J. Jordan, is training with the Royal Air Force in England.