NORTHERN COMMAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 10

NORTHERN COMMAND.

NEW OFFICER APPOINTED.

UEUT.-COLONEL O. H. MEAD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Lieutenant-Colonel O. H. Mead, D.5.0., Adjutant and Quarter-Master General of tlt« New Zealand Military Force#, haa itNa to coaoand th'N&ftlirn Military District in succession to Colonel R. Mile*, D.5.0., who leave* New Zealand on November 21 to attend the [Imperial Defence College. This announce'■Mai was mad* to-day by th* Minister lof Defence, the Hon. F. Jones.

Lieutenant-Colonel Mead, on taking over the new appointment, will be granted the temporary rank of colonel. His present appointment at army headquarters, which includes the duties of second member of the Army Board, will be taken over by Colonel E. Puttick, on his return from England in January. Lieutenant-C'olonel Mead served with the New Zealand territorial force before Ihe war, and proceeded overseas as a lieutenant 'with the Canterbury Regiment' of the Main Body. He served with the New Zealand division throughout the war, wa« wounded on two occasions, mentioned in dispatches twice, attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the D.S.O. On returning to New Zealand from active service he was appointed to the New Zealand Staff Corps with the rank _of captain, and has held various appointments in the central and southern military districts. He graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, in 1928.