SWORD OF HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 7

SWORD OF HONOUR.

GIFT TO OFFICER. MAJOR STILLWELL PROMOTED. A presentation of a sword of honour I wn.~ made to M.i ytr W. 1". Stillwell, M.C., Y.D., who has relinquished the command of the 4th (Howitzer) Bat- , ! tery, X.Z. Artillery, to take up anI appointment as officer commanding the Ist Held Brigade X.Z.A., in succe'ssion. to Lieutenant-Colonel C. X. Xewnuin, i D.S.O. '. • ; Major Stilhvell has been: associated' with t.ie corps practically sin f -f- its , " inception, more than" twenty-.V.-j years ago. He joined the College a' volunteer infantry company," a,b()u.t 1906, and remained with it when it became a divisional signal company under- the territorial system. Major Stillwell was with the large contingent which the company provided tor the Main Body and was' with the Signal Corps until the Armistice, receiving Ids commission at GallipolL 'He wiw awarded the Military Cross after thei Battle of Messines. When he returned to Xew Zealand he took command of his old company, which was converted intoa howitzer battery about 1921. The presentation of the sword r '6t honour was made on the parade ground iat Narrow Xeck at tie close of a "night-and-morning* camp, 'bf Captain IA.-A.-Cuixey, commander*