ARMY PROMOTIONS.
NEW LIEUTENANT-COLONEL.
NORTHERN DISTRICT POSTS.
Included in army promotions contained in the latest Gazette is that of Major A. H. L. Sugden, Commandant, Army School of Instruction, Trentham, to the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. Other ap|x>iut incuts and promotions notified in the Gazette include the following:— Royal New Zealand Artillery.- Lieutenant and Quartcrma»ter (temporary i I'. A. Wetherall. M.H.K.. Deputy- - ant Northern Military District, to l>e Captain and Quartermaster (temporary). New Zealand Permanent Staff.— Lieutenant and Quartermaster .T. W. McMurray. chief instructor. Northern District School, Narrow Neck, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temporary). Army Ordnance Corps.—Lieutenant and Quartermaster S. Thomson, Officer in Charge Workshops, Devonport, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temporary).
New Zealand Temporary Staff.—Captain H. S. Harrison, Quartermaster, Papakura, to be Major (temporary).
New Zealand Artillery.—Second-Lieu-tenant (temporary) R. D. Horton, 11th Heavy Battery 9th Heavy Regiment, to lie Lieutenant (temporary).
Corps of Signals.—Captain G. J. Robertshaw, Northern District Signal Company, to be Major (temporary).
Auckland Regiment.—Captain A. H. Hunt, Ist Cadet Battalion, to be Major; Lieutenants V. C. Butler and L. Lucena, Ist Battalion, to 'be Captains (temporary); H. F. Prothero (late Imperial Army), to be Captain (temjKirary). and posted to Ist Battalion: Second-Lieutenants (temporary) T. H. C. Caughey and R. H. Chisholm. Ist Battalion, to be Lieutenants (tempora r y ).
North Auckland Regiment.—Captains O. S. Olsen and .T. A. Lambden, M.C.. Ist Rattalion. to be Majors (temporary) ; Lieutenants K. Haslett. R. M. Harding. F. C. Cornwall, M.C.. and .J. A. CresswelL M.C.. Ist Battalion, to be Captain (temporary): Lieutenant- H. S. Bannister. Ist Battalion, to be Quartermaster with the temporary rank of Captain.
Waikato Regiment. — Captain F. Ist Battalion, to be Major (temporary); Lieutenants C. A. Voss, and L. .T. Smith and Lieutenant (temporary) W. J. Dick, Ist Battalion, to be captains (temporary) ; Lieutenant and Quartermaster W. S. Dingle, Ist Battalion, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temporary).
New Zealand Medical Corps.—Drs. J. H. La wry and R. Warnock to be Lieutenants (temporary Captains), Northern Military District.
Army Nursing Service,. —Sister H. M. Comrie. to 'be Matron for the Northern Military District.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 268, 11 November 1940, Page 3
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