TERRITORIAL FORCES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2752, 22 April 1916, Page 14

TERRITORIAL FORCES

NEW APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTION!

LIST FOR NEW ZEALAND

His Excellency "the Governor has approved of the following appointments, .promotions,-.and resignations in tho New Zealand ■ Territorials STAFF. Captain William Thomas Beck, D.SvO;, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is struck off the 'strength and, is transferred to the Reserve of' Officers (General List), with : rank of oaptam. Captain Beck resumes his duties as district storekeeper, and is attached to the New Zealand Staff Corps while so employed. ■ TERRITORIAL UNITS. V Ninth'' ("Wellington East Coast) Mounted "Rifles. —-Lieut. John Orlando Scott,- to he captain; 2nd Lieut. Edwm Arnold Nilsson, to be vice LieuK Beamish, promoted. 2nd Lieut. Noel Gordon Grant, to be lieutenant. Cyril; Nelson'Beetham "Williams, to he lieutenant- (temporary), vice Lieut. Wilder."' _ " New Zealand 'Field. 'Artillery.—2nd ■Lieut.'.Charles Newey Mitchell, to be lieutenant Corporal Cyril Vere Day, to be 2nd-lieutenant (supernumerary to establishment), J Battery. ■ New Zealand Garrison "Artillery.— Captain Charles Henry Matthews is transferred-to the Unattached List (a). ' Corps' of r New Zealand Engineers.— Mounted Signal Troops: The appoint ment. of 2nd Lieut, (on probation) Ralph-Ranstead is confirmed'. --Third: (Auckland) Regiment (Countess, of Raiifurly's Own).—Capt. John Morison Melville is transferred to the Unattached List (b). • Fourth -(Otago) ; Regiment—2nd Lieut. Gordon Hope Allan, to be lieutenant ; .2nd Lieut: Hugh Mulholland, to b£ "lieutenant; - 2nd- Lieutenant Thomas Gillman, to be lieutenant. • . ■ Fifth (Wellington) Regiment.—The appointment of 2nd Lieut, (on probation) Barton Albert Ginger is confirmed; Corporal John Thomas Linehan,„.to be 2nd • lieutenant (supernumerary'to establishment). . , : Thirteenth (North Canterbury , and Westland) Regiment.).—Cecil Herbert Hoslcin,- to be "bandmaster and honorary lieutenant.:. . '_ Fourteenth (South Otago)- Regiment. —'William -Fergie, to be 2nd /lieutenant (temporary),. vice 2nd Lieut. Botting, who is with the=New Zealand Expedi-tionary-Force. V. , Seventeenth (RuaMne)' Regiment.-* flw'Hon.- Sir Walter Clarke Buchanan, Kt. ,vMvLiC:J : to be ; honorary colonel. Newi Zealand Army _ Service Corps.—" Lieut."Oliver Duff, from" tlie. Unattached "List" (b);v,to'.be,lieutenant. ' • < - New Zealand.; Forces 1 Motor' Service , 3orps •(Motor-car. Section), Auckland- , Jideon - La/wrence '.Tavlor, / to be 2nd jeutenant: (on probation); 2nd Lieut, 'on. probation). Gerald; Gascoyne Beard ia/5 : resigned "his .appointment.' .>NeV Zealand Medical' Corps ; swanston^i : to. be temporary; captain ■ vhile,.employed on, duty tat Rotorua; ] jieut.'. George Harold Robertson, to be .'emporary.-/captain while. employed with ho :Neiv'*Zeai?n'd Expeditionary Force; )r.. Elizabeth ,Gunn is granted -tho temiprary rafik : of captain while employed 11' H.M.NiZ. transport Tahiti: as permanent medical officer for voyage to Igypt and return; Henry Arthur Bluett Janes, to bo temporary captain while cting as medical;.officer In a _ military amp. 'in" New: Zealand Francis Dewsury Pinfold, M.8., Ch.B., N.Z., to be eutenant. -The'undermentioned to be lieutenants 'hile employed, ivitli tlie New Zealand expeditionary " Force: —William Henry impson, M:B.; ,Oswald James Reid, LB. ;

New Zealand Chaplains' Department. —Tho Rov.- Charles Anderson Fraer, Chaplain to the Forces,'4th class, to be third class-;:' "" "

; ;~Tho amdormentioned to be Chaplains to ; tho Forces (4tli class): —The Revs. Robert James Stanton, Kenneth James M'Farland. James Douglas :' Smith, Henry William Cleary, William Henry Edgell. ' ' Unattached. List (b).—Malcolm Ross (official. war correspondent, New - Zealand Government} is granted the honorary rank of captain during tho.period of the war; Lieutv- D'Auvergn© Stanley Leigh Grut is struck off.the-strength of the ; New .Zealand Expeditionary Force, and is absorbed; 2nd Lieut. Frank Lester Newall' Tuck, to be lieutenant; Cecil Dare Bridge is granted the honorary rank of .lieutenant.-while employed .as officer in charge camp records. ■ :

The appointments of the -undermentioned 2nd lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed Arthur Bertram Collier, David Charles Collins, Arthur Grosvenor Mabie, Harry Byron Taylor, ' John Douglas .Vernon;. ' The. undermentioned to be 2nd lieutenants (on probation) .-—Ernest ParRobert William Winter, Harold Butler Xusk, Frank Hudd Denton. The commission granted 2nd Lieut. Ivan' Henry O'Meara is cancelled.