A NEW BRIGADIER
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The following military appointments and promotions are included in those gazetted to-day:— New Zealand Army Service Corps. Colonel S. H. Crump to be brigadier; Major O. Bracegirdle to be lieuten-ant-colonel. New Zealand Infantry.—Major J. K. Robbie to be lieutenant-colonel. New Zealand Medical Corps.— Major A. H. Kirker to be lieutenantcolonel; Major R. A. Elliott to be lieutenant-co?bnel. New Zealand Engineers.—Lieuten-ant-Colonel F. M. H. Hanson to be colonel. Colonel F. Prideaux is appointed chief paymaster, Second N.Z.E.F. Brigadier W. G. Stevens upon his return to the Middle East from New Zealand resumes the appointment of Officer in Charge of Administration, Second N.Z.E.F., and command of the New Zealand Maadi Camp. Brigadier S. H. Crump, 0.8. E., D.5.0., who has been in command of the Army Service Corps, N.Z.E.F., since the First Echelon departed, is a former Quartcrmas-ter-General, New Zealand Military Forces. He was awarded the D.S.O. last year for service in the Middle East.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1944, Page 4
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