SECOND ECHELON POSTINGS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 8

SECOND ECHELON POSTINGS

Canterbury Men For Camp NAMES OF 112 SOLDIERS ANNOUNCED Departure From City Next Week The first postings to units of the 2nd Echelon' of the Expeditionary Force of men from Canterbury was made yes- ! terday. The first selection was of 112 '' men. i Others will be chosen following medical examinations in the next few days. ' The men posted to Burnham Camp will go there on January 12. Men for Trentham will travel by the ferry steamer on January 11, while those for other North Island camps will leave Christchurch on January 10. A total of 125 men will be medically examined in Christchurch to-day. Four medical boards will examine 80 men in the morning, and three boards will sit in the afternoon to give tests of 45 men. On Saturday morning the /last batch of men who will go into camp for training on January 12 will be examined, three boards having been arranged. The medical boards yesterday passed 52 men as fit for all service, six as temporarily unfit, and 15 as permanently unfit for ser\ Ice overseas. The selections so far made of Canterbury men for the 2nd Echelon, apart from officers and non-commissioned officers already in . camps, are:— DIVISIONAL, HEADQUARTERS (TO TRENTHAM) Christchurch—Webb, . Richard Steffano. DIVISIONAL CAVALRY (TO FAPAKURA) Christchurch —Greening, Arthur Herbert: McAllister, Ivor. PROVOST COMPANY (TO TRENTHAM) Christchurch Evans, Rowland Davies. ; HEADQUARTERS INFANTRY BRIGADE (TO TRENTHAM) Christchurch—Fitzsimons. Terence. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION N.Z. ARTILLERY (TO WAIKATO) Christchurch —Williams, Lloyd. FIELD REGIMENT i N.Z. ARTILLERY (TO WAIKATO) Christchurch —Forbes, Arthur Alexander; Fordyce, James; Duder, Albert; Duncan, Francis George; Hamilton, Hugh Roy; McDowell, George Thomas; Miller, lan Hugh; Poulton, PercivaJ; Quartermain, Joseph Charles; Reed, David George Frederick; Thomas, William Daniel; Wakeling, Morris Ronald. Lyttelton—Peck, John William; -Tier. Bertram Bernard. Mayfield—Harvey, Archie Venning. INFANTRY RIFLE BATTALION (TO BURNHAM) Ashburton —Price, Harold. Burnham —Day, Joe Scott Roxburgh. Christchurch Aitken, William George; Allan, Stanley Charles; Armstrong, Roy Leo; Burke. Ronald George; Bulman. Michael Patrick; Comerford, Francis Edward; Eckersley, Walter; Ellis Robert Terence Carleton; Evans, George Arthur; Ford, William Ambrose: Gambini, J. J.; Gemmell, George Leslie; Griffin, George William; Henley, Richard David; Huki, William': Lewitt, Martin Jamieson; Moffat, William Robert; Phillipson, James Alfred Fisher; Polkinghorne, William . Gladstone; Prinsep. Frederick: Rugg, Donald Clive; Shatford, James Edward Hoareman: Smart, Alfred James; Tindall, j Clark: Toon, Martin Sherrand; Whyte, G Hinds—Tilson, William- Francis. _ Islington—Kiesanowski, Frank Steven. , _, , Kaiapoi—Howard, Sydney Edward. Lees Valley—Adams, James Henry. Mitcham— Hooper. Arthur Charles. I -Lyttelton—Adolph, Reynold -John; Anderson. James Duncan; Reilly, Josenh. . ._ Oaro —Dunn. Maurice James. Springston—McJarrow. Stanley. Taumutu—Freeman, Awhitu. Templeton—Smith John Arthur. Timaru— Tutty, Matthew; Wilson, Waimate—Trembath, Edward Albert FnSLD COMPANY N.Z. ENGINEERS (TO PAPAKURA) Christchurch Cunneen, Patrick Francis: Newsome, Cyril Charles: Macdonald Ernest John; McMillan Henry George: Miller. Donald; Petersen .Deny nis- Prisk. Ernest Edward; Vaughan, Francis Charles. Darfield—Priest, Thomas. Heathcote—Porteous, William John. DIVISIONAL SIGNALS COMPANY. (TO TRENTHAM) Christchurch—Barbarel, Edgar Arthur; Collins, William Retallick; McClure, Duncan Wilford. DIVISIONAL SUPPLY COLUMN (TO BURNHAM) Ashburton—Musson, Cedric George Amberley—Reeve, Clifford Alfred. Barry's Bay—Gillan, Sydney James. Leslie Gardner. ' Christchurch— Armstrong, Lawrence Ellis; Balkind, Israel Hyman; Butterfield, Everard Cecil; Darney, Norris Edmund; Dick, David George Graham; Fleming. Timothy Joseph; Knudsen, Harold Rupert; Last, Eric Sydney; Nelson Desmond William; Mahoney, Percival Dennvs; Metcalfe, Harold; Scott, Bruce Frederick Richard; Tuxford. Ronald Forghan. Hanmer Springs Dynes, Morris Mayes. . "

LIGHT AID DETACHMENT (TO BURNHAM) Christchurch—Blakeway, Laurie. Timaru —Irving, William James. FIELD AMBUEANCE (TO BURNHAM) • Christchurch Adamsdn, Douglas Hastings; Brown, Percival Gordon; Morrow, Thomas Johnston. Culverden —McLaughlin, Joseph. Hanmer Springs—Enright, William James.

DIVISIONAL FD3LD PARK COMPANY (TO PAPAKURA) Heathcote—Loader, Edward John.

MACHINE-GUN BATTALION (TO BURNHAM) Courtenay—Banks, Richard John. Christchurch —Gempton,' Albert Herbert; Lewis, Herbert. Darfield—Murdoch, Ronald Alexander. Geraldine McCullough, Wallace Rutherford.

RESERVE MOTOR TRANSPORT

COMPANY (TO TRENTHAM) Christchurch —Bailey, Leslie Alexander; Barritt, Ernest Jtiseph Herman.