THE DEFENCE FORCES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 4

THE DEFENCE FORCES.

, GAZETTE ANNOUNCEMENTS. ' Tho following announccmonts appear :in this week's Gazette:— Major Horaco Dorsel Eccles, Third Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifles, to bo lieut.-colonel; Dr. G. H.' Brown, to be captain in the Now Zealand Medical ■ Corps; Honorary Chaplain-Major W. Shirer, having 'resigned his chaplaincy to tho Wellington Civil Servico ltilles and Wellington Highland Rifles, is attached to tho staff of tho First Wellington lliflo Battalion; Captain J: M. - Forrester, Queen's Rifles, has resigned his command; Lieut.-Coloncl K. M'Kenzie, South Canterbury Infantry Battalion, resigned, -to bo v posted to tho active list (unattached); Major C. T. Tatum, Third Regiment Wellington Mounted Rifles, resigned, to be posted to the active list (unattached) ; Lieutenant J. E. Duignan, R.N.Z.E., to _be transferred 'to the Now Zealand with the rank of lieutenant. Corporal W. E. Powell, R.N.Z.A., has been awarded the Imperial long-sorvico and good-conduct medal, and Sergt.-Major L. Parrant, No. 2 Company N.Z.G.A.V. (Potono Navals), tho Colonial Auxiliary Forces long-servico medal.

Tho special campaigns, etc., selected for tho examinations in military subjects of candidates for commissions in the rogular army aro published for general information :— For candidates for commissions in tho rogular army, other than university or colonial candidates: —October, 190S, and March, 1909.—Th0 Peninsular Campaign, from tho end of October, 1813, to tho end of tho war (April, 1814). October, 1909, and. March, 1910.—Tho Waterloo Campaign. October, 1910, and -March, 1911.—Tho Campaign in Bohemia, 1866, to the battle of Koniggratz inclusive, with special reference to that battlo. For university and colonial candidates for commissions in tho regular army:—October, 1908. —Tho Peninsular Campaign, from March, 1811, to tho end of October, 1813, with special reforenco to tho Vittoria Campaign, from May to the end of Juno, 1813; or tho Peninsular Campaign, from tho ond of October, 1813, to tho end of tho war (April, 1814). March, 1909. —Tho Peninsular Campaigu, from tho ond of Octobor, 1813, to the end of tho war (April, 1814). October, 1909. —Tho Peninsular Campaign, from tho end of October, 1813, to the end of tho war (April, 1814); or tho Waterloo Campaign. March, 1910. —Tho Waterloo Campaign. Octobor, 1910. —The Waterloo Campaign; or tli'o Campaign of Bohemia, 1866, to tho battlo of Koniggratz inclusive, with special reforenco to that battlo. March, 1911.—Tho Campaign of Bohemia, 1866, to tho battlo of Koniggratz inclusive, with special rofcronco to that battlo. Alternative papers aro sot in Octobor each year, so that university and colonial candidates may tako up cither of the spccial periods.