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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 4

Personal

Colonel H. E. Barrowclough, D.S.O., _M.C., has been appointed to command the 6th New Zealand Infantry Brigade. He will leave with the 3rd Echelon. Colonel Barrowclough, now a solicitor in Auckland, served with the Rifle Brigade in the last war. Lieut.-Colonel N. S. Falla, C.M.G., D,S.O., has been appointed to command _the New Zealand Overseas Base. He is chairman and managing director of the Union Steam Ship Co., Ltd. Colonel Falla commanded the 3rd New Zealand Field Artillery Brigade in the last war, _and later the 2nd (Army) Brigade. Lieut,-Colonel A. J, Manson, M.C., Sergeant-at-Arms, is attached to Air Force Headquarters. He served with the Machine Gun section in France, and since the war he has been a territorial officer with the Hawke's Bay Regiment. Major G. H. Clifton, M.C., has been appointed Brigade Major to Colonel Harest, 5th New Zealand Infantry Brigade, He will leave with the 2nd Echelon. Major Clifton is a graduate of Duntroon _Military College, and served on the North-West Frontier, India, in 1919-20. __ Major J. I, Brooke has been appointed Brigade Major to Colonel Barrowclough. He graduated from Duntroon in 1919 and in 1925 he was seconded to the | British Army in India for two years. He is at present Commandant of the Army School at Trentham. _ Major G. Dittmer, M.B.E., M.C., who is in command of the Maori Battalion now in training at Palmerston North, has been promoted to the rank of Lieut.Colonel. 1 Captain C. Shuttleworth, until recently in command of the Army School at _ Narrow Neck, has been appointed acting-_Lieut.-Colonel in command of the 24th Auckland Rifle Battalion. | Captain C. E. Weir has been appointed _acting-Lieut,-Colonel and given command of the 6th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery. A. N. Grigg, M.P., of Longbeach, Ashburton, has enlisted for service overseas.