DEFENCE FORCES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15464, 17 December 1915, Page 3

DEFENCE FORCES.

* PHOMOTIOXS AND APPOIXTMEXTS. (I'RESS ASSOCIATfOX TELEGRAM.) TVELLIXGTOX. December 15. The undermentioned appointments, pro-!'i(-'tiont j , resicnations, and transfers of officer-, of tho IVrmancnt Staff and the Territorial Force have been approved: — Permanent Staff. Staff-Serßcant-Majar Jvhr> Thomson (W.O.i :'s granted honorary r:«nk of lieutenant durins pcricd o: the war. dated October let. 1315. Field Artillery. Second-Lk-utenant Stanley William Morton 10 be lieutenant, dated Xovemlier 11th. 1915. The appointments of unticnncntior.ed secondlieutenants (on probation) arc confirmed'— i Leslie Edward Hull, William Ellis Earn- j chaw. Oliver Robert Farrcr, t'lvde Or mis ton West. • Corps of X.Z. Hnsineerp. Dhieional Signal Company. The appointment of Second-Lieutenant (en probat'cni Aiau Aldrich Dignan is contirmed. X.Z. Uailway TJattalion. The appuintti'.rnts of titi<-Jer:ncniioncd caplains (on probation) arc confirmed : -Charles Mi:travers l'Jenzoni, A|l)crt Ernest, J'irman, .Ic-1111 Graham. Charley Itorsnell, Arthur Wood Mouat. Jiiines l'hilin Mathoflon, John P.road Mitchell, Charles Philip Kyan, Isaac William Turner, Hamlin Tuly Thomas. Coast IJefence The. appointments of undermentioned second-! ieutenanU* (on probation) are confirmed: — Donald Miller, Frank Wilfred. Gribble, Archibald Koy lloyte 'inrncr, Henry Francia Cotter. y./j. Medical Corps. Mr.jor Alfred George Tall>ot to bo lieuten-ant-colonel while acting as principal medical ] officer of tho Auckland Military District, I <latetl October lat. If) I.">. Major James Sands Elliott to be ljeut-enant-colonel while acting 1 as principal medical officer of the Welling- I ton Military District, dated October Ist, 1015. I Major Philip Oswald Andrew to be. lieuten-ant-colonel and principal modica! officer Trcntham Camp, dated Xovcmber Ist, 1915. Surgeon-General Sydney Skerman. V.D., Kes?rvo of Officers, to be actively employed as camp medical officer with the rank of lieu-tenant-colonel, dated 'Xovember loth, 1015. X.Z. Army X'urflins Servico Corps. To be matrons: —Jessie Bicknell, Frances Keith Payne, Jcssio Orr, Mabel Thurston, Marfrarct Mylos. To bo sister: —Alexander Keddie. To b© nurses-.— Letitia Miller, Florcnoo Sudden, Marjrarct Shukcr, Doris Arrowsmith, Kathleen Adelaide Woodward, Annie Koec. | X.Z. Chaplaina' Department. I | The undermentioned to b© chaplains to the force* (4th clae 3 ):—The Rev. Charles Addenbrooke (dated October 20th, 1915); the Kev. William "Wallace (dated sth, 1915); the Itev. Charle 3 Herbert Isaacson (dateii Xovember otlt, 1915); iho Rev. Harry AJexander Johnson (dated November 16th, 1015).