THE N.Z. ARMY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2671, 18 January 1916, Page 6

THE N.Z. ARMY

MILITARY POSITIONS A BIG LIST PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS The following military promotions, appointments) and transfers have been made New Zealand Staff Corps. Lieut, (temporary) P. N. Petty, to bo temporary captain. Lieut, (temporary) F. E. Ostler, to be temporary captain. Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry. Thomas F. Gibson, to be' second-lient. (on probation). 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. ■ The following captains to be majors: —Samuol C. Schofield, Maxwell Alfred. The following lieutenants to be captains:—N. J. EUingham, W. E. Carter, W. H. Walters; and Second-Lieutenant D. Skidd to be lieutenant. 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles. The following to be 2nd lieutenants (temporary) during the absence of officers with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force: —H. A. Martin, vice Lieut. Moore; S. G. Perry, vice Lieut-. Harris; Sergt.Major W. S. Page, vice Second-Lieuten-ant Hislop: H. D. Batchelor, vice Lieut. Harding; N. H. Mackie, vice Lieut. Davis; V. G. Murray, vice Lieut. Sommerville. 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. John Henry Colelourne to be captain (temporary), viceGaptain Spragg, with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Chas. L. T. Gordon, to be second-lieut. (temporary), vice Beamish, : absent with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.. Lieut. F. Patience is transferred to "the Uyattacitrctf List (b). N.Z. Field Artillery. J. Battery: C. T. Salmon, to be seoond-lieut. (temporary) during the ab--senoe of Second-Lieut. Warnock with the N;Z. Expeditionary Force. D Battery: John B. Gauntlett, to be seoond-lieut. (temporary), during the absence of Second-Lieut. Mitchell with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. New Zealand Engineers, Post and Telegraph Corps: Titos. M. Cotter, to be second-lieut. 4th (Otago) Regiment. Second-Lieut. Harold Vernon Tregear, from the Unattached List .(b) to 'be second-lieut. sth (Wellington) Regiment. Lieut. A. D. Sloane, to be captain; Captain V. H. Baker, from the Unattached List (b) to be captain (temporary) vice Captain Sloane, with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force; Sergt. F. H. Hudson, to be second-lieut. (supernumerary to the establishment). 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.. Sergt.-Ma.jor N. D. Cox, to be secondlieut. (temporary), vice Lieut. Vamham, with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force.

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). • Oswald John Howarth, to be secondlient. (temporary), vice Second-Lieut; Tirquhart, with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. 16th Waikato Regiment. Lieut. John Hector Luxford, to be captain. N.Z. Medical Corps. Captain Henry F. Bernau, to be major, while employed with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force; John Alexander Hurley is granted tho honorary rank of major during the period of the war. The undermentioned, to be captains: Daniel B. Maunsell, Ernest Robertson'. N.Z. Chaplain's Department. . The Rev. James D. M'L. Wilson, to be Chaplain to the Forces (4th class). 'Unattached List (b). Captain V. H. Baker is transferred to the sth (Wellington) Regiment; Lieut. F. Patience, from the 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles, to be lieiit.; Second-Lieut. H. V. Tregear is transferred to the 4th (Otago) Regiment. The undermentioned second-lieuten-ants to be lieutenants: Denis F. Duigan, Fred Thomas, Arthur A. Potter. Motor Service Corps "(Car Section). To bo second-lieutenants (on probation) : C. G. Dawson, Charles F. Bennett, Clement Chas. Scott, Benjamin H. Andrew, James M. Caughley. , Tauliorenikaii Camp. The Commandant, New Zealand Military Forces, has approved the appointment of the undermentioned non-com-missioned officer as second-lieut.: Sergt. M. W. Horton, No. -5 Company, N.Z. A.S.C., to be posted to the A.S.C., 10th Reinforcements (on probation). The Camp Commandant has temporarily appointed Pte. H. C. Kaye. N.Z.A.S.C., to ho corporal.