ON SERVICE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15774, 15 December 1916, Page 3

ON SERVICE.

PEESOXi-L NOTES ABOUT

NEW ZEALANDEBS.

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LONDON, November 3

Captain Cecil Humphries (Christchurch), of the Highland Lijht, Infantry, has rejoined his battalion at Loith, having made a completo recovery from the wound he received in. the Somme offensive. Second-Lieutenant J- Hanrathy CWadestown), lately on the staff of the Christchurch Post Office Savings Bank, is in camp at Sling, and cspects to be sent to if ranee after undergoing a period of additional training. Lieutenant "NY. M. Thom, Ist Canterbury Battalion, Ist X.Z. Infantry Brigade, ia at Brighton, spending a period of convalescence at tho hospital for New Zealand officers provided by 31r and Mrs Knight. While there he will undergo a course of massage. Lieutenj ant Thom had ten days of the "P ll *] l before he was wounded by a rifle bullet in the right .shoulder. Arriving in London oil October l»t, he was tor a while at St. Mark's Hospital. He saw servico at the Dardanelles, then went to France, and until September 25th he had escaped without a hurt. For about a year he was transport officer m Egypt and France, but went into the infantry just before the Somme lighting. _ , Lieutenant H. S. Barker, R.N-, has been appointed to the arspite. Engineer-Lieutenant G. It. Rutledge, R.X.R. (Christchurch), who has been in the Teutonic for a considerable time, has been commissioned as engineer lieutenant-commander. Lieutenant P. K. Campbell, Black Watch, ion of Mr Pat Campbell (Christchurch), has quite recovered fiom the wounds lie received at Hullueh a year ago. Ho has just returned to England after conducting a draft of 1200 men of the Black "Watch and Cameron Highlanders to Salonica. Owing to the presence of enemy submarines in the Mediterranean, this was rather an anxious undertaking. Two of Lieutenant Campbell's sisters arc nursing under the Rod Cross, one in France and the other in this country. Second-Lieutcnant O. A. Fricdlander, Royal Engineers, is now full lieutenant. He is a. son of Mr R. Fricdlander, of Ashburton. Ho enlisted with the Main Body, N.Z.E.F., and at the tinie of his recommendation for a commission ho was sergeant-major. In July Lieutenant Friedlander was wounded. iSecond-Lieuteuant W. A. Humphreys (Christchurch) is on leave in London preparatory to getting his orders for the front.' Mr Humphreys cam© to England about a- year ago, got a commission in the 2nd I'escrvo Cavalry Regiment, which is the feeder for the 2nd Dragoon Guards Bays) and the 6th Dragoons (Inniskillings). Second-Lieutenant J. 0. Denniston, Ist King Edward's, Horse, has been confirmed in his appointment. Mr Edward Kidson, who graduated with honours at Canterbury College, afterwards went, to Amcrica and distinguished himself as a, magnctician in tho service of tho Carnegie Institution at Washington. He eamo to England last year and got his commission in November as temporary-lieutenant in tho R.E. A separato unit of tho Engineers has rcccntly been crcii.ted for meteorological work in tho field. This service in the eastern Mediterranean has been -under the command of Captain E. M. "Wedderburn, "hem. secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, and Lieutonant. Kidson is his second in command. Meteorological enquiries were originally initiated to study the circulation of the atmosphere, and they proved to bo of very great value, not only to tho Admiralty for tho Naval operations, but. also for troops in the field, where movements over a- wido area depend very largely for their success on weather conditions. Lieutenant Kidson is a Nelson boy, and was educated art the Hampden Stand Central Schools, and afterwards at Nelson College. _ ' Private A. N. Field, of tho New Zealand Rifle Brigade, a well-known New Zealand journalist, is at present at the command depot Codford, awaiting his discharge from the forces. Mr Field has been declared permanently unfit for further service, as a result of a shrapnel wound received in France. Captain Edmund Bouinois, of the West Yorkshire Regiment, was killed i:i action on October 23rd. Ho was tho oldest son of Mr and Mrs Arfchu'r Bouinois, Aylesbury, Canterbury, and was 31 years of age. Ho gWt his commission as temporary-Second Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion Worcester Regiment, within a month or two of the outbreak of war, -and was afterwards transferred to the West Yorks. He was promoted captain in May, 1916..t0 tho 21st Battalion (Wool Textile Pioneers). Lieutenant Hugli Barr, R.A.M.C. (Dimedin) recently returned from Salonika to London on furlough, and ho is now at Tweseldown Camp, Farnham, Surrey. For nearly a. yeax he has been attached to the 28th General Hospital. On arrival. Dr. Barr went to Scotland to visit reltives, and then, coming to London, he was for . a short period on the surgical 6taff at London Hospital. His promotion to captain is now due. Major A. B. Rose. Manchester Regiment (Wellington) has been graded for pay as Brigade Major while commanding a company or squadron of officer cadet units. Major. Rose is stationed at Cambridge. * Captain Cathcart R. Wason,. son of Mr Eugene Wason, M.P., has been awarded the C.M.G. and promoted for services during the operations in Mesopotamia. Lieut.-C-olonel H. D. Tuson, C.MJGr., of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, has been appointed Assistant Adjutant-General. Acting-Lieutenant P. B. V. Heard, it.N., son of Colonel Hoard (formerly on the staff in New Zealand) has been promoted lieutenant. He was in H.M.S. New Zealand when she visited the Dominion, and has lately been in the cruiser Birmingham. Mr C. A. Jordan, son of Mr C. B. Jordan. Under-Secretary for Justice, who enlisted in the ranks of the King's Royal Rifles a year ago, has been in France for some months, anrl saw a great deal of the Somme offensive. He has been promoted to lance-corporal, and is with' the bombers in hi s battalion. Mr Jordan's brother, Mr Noel Jordan, was killed early in October, when the New Zealand troops captured Flers. Dr. Basil H asking (Palroerston North), who studied medicine at Otago, Edinbugh' and St. Bartholomew's, has been admitted to the degree of L.R.C.P. Dr. Hasldns served for a term in the Navy at the beginning of the war, and recently resumed his medical studies.