N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 16

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

ASSISTANT-DIRECTOR RETIRES. A NEW APPOINTMENT. CBy Telegraph.—-pedal to "Sta.-.' . CHRISTCH URCH, this day. With 27 years' service as an officer of the New Zealand Medical Corps, Colonel P. C. Fenwick, Assistant Director of Medical Services for the Southern Command, is retiring and going on to the reserve. He has fought in two campaigns and has seen eight and a half years' service in the field. He was medical officer with the Second Contingent to South Africa, where he spent two and a half years. In 1914 he sailed with the Main Body, and saw service on Gallipoli and in Egypt. Later he went to France, and then took charge of Xo. 3 Xew Zealand General Hospital at Codford, and then No. 1 New Zealand Hospital at Brockenhurst. He returned to New Zealand in 1920 in charge of the hospital ship Marama, and was appointed Assistant-Director of Medical Services for the Southern Command, a position he has held for six years. The vacant position will be filled by the appointment of Colonel T. Mill, C.M.G., C.8.E., M.8., who is at present on the reserve of officers. During the war Colonel Mill was in command of the Waltham Hospital in England.