TERRITORIAL FORCES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2834, 27 July 1916, Page 6

TERRITORIAL FORCES

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS LATEST LIST )[is Excellency the Governor has approved of the following appointmsnti. promotions, resignations, and transfers of the undermentioned officers of tho Staff and Territorial Forces:— Permanent Staff. Honorary Lieutenant David C. W. Cowgrove, to )>e deputy-assistant adjutant-, general at Headquarters. Dated June 4,. 1911!.. Commands. The period of commands of the undermentioned officers is extended during ths period of the wanColonel George W. S. Patterson, Commander Auckland Coast Defence Troops. Colonel Charles T. Major, D.5.0., Commander Auckland Infantry Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. li. Mackesy, Uth (North Auckland) Mounted Uities. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sherwm. Auckland Field Artillery Brigade. Lieut«nnnr-Colouel William H. Harare-. Auckland Garrison Artillery Division. Lii.'utenaut-Colonel Alfred Bartlctt, 3nl (Auckland) (Countess of T»anfurly's Own). Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Porritt, fitl' (Hniirnktt Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Stead>aan, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Eoy W. Cummiug, 16th (Waikato) Regiment. Corps of New Zealand Engineers. Captain Louis Shera, to be major under the provisions of Paragraph 111, General Regulations. 1913; dated .Tuno 22, 1016. New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps. The undermentioned lieutenants to h? captains; dated July I, 1916:— Charles J. Allen, Henry L. Kiiigslev. Captain Harry K. Combs relinquishes his appointment as Staff Officer to the Director of Post and Telegraph Services, and is transferred to the Unattached List (a); dated July 1, 1916. . Second Lieutenant (on probation) John T. H. E. Kerr from the Unattached List (b) to be 2nd lieutenant (on probation) (North Island); dated July 4, 1916. 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Rewi M. S. Jones from the Unattached List (b) 'to be 2nd lieutenant "(supernumerary to establishment) ; dated June 28, 1916. New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Louis'E. Harnett, 8.A.J1.C, l" l)C consulting surgeon to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and is granted th« temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel whil'e'so employed; dated June 13, 1916. Lieutenant (temporary captain) Ernest P. Pridham is struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and absorbed into tho New Zealand Dental Corps; dated July 5, 1916. Henrv Riven Allison, to be lieutenant; dated' Slay 49. Win. i\ew Zealand Veterinary Corps. Captain William- G. Taylor i* etii'ck off the strength of the New. Zealand Expeditionary Force, and is absorbed; dated June 11, 1916. -' . •- , Captain William Taylor is transferred to the Reserve of Officers; dated June 11, 1916. New Zealand Chaplains' Departmcnt.The Reverend Benjamin F. Rothweli, Chaplain'to the Forces, 4th Class, to bo Chaplain 3rd Class; dated Ju1y.29,-1915. The Reverend Celestine Lacroix to b» Chaplain to the Forces (?tk Class); dated June 12, 1916. New Zealand Army Nursing Scrvkt. Louisa F. Petersen, .to be matron maaseuse; dated' November 25, 1915 (Masseuse Branch). ' Unattached List (a). Captain Harry Ernest Combs, from the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps, to be captain; dated July 1, 1916. 'Unattached List (b). Levin M. Taverner, to be captain (temporary) during the period of 'the war; dated June 15, 1916. •'■..' . , Tho appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) William Pialph Burgc is tonfirmed. ~.i„T Second Lieutenant Rewi M. 5. Jones ia transferred to the 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment; dated June 28, 1916. Second Lieutenant (on probation) John T H JB. Kerr is transferred to the Corps of Now Zealand Engineers (New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps); dated July 'The undermentioned to be 2nd lieutenants :-Colour-Sergeant. Percy K. Bryan; dated .Tuno 30, 1916. Sergeant Sidney N. Uillman; dated July 4, 1916 Sergeant •lames D. Ritchie; dated July 5 Mb. Henrv Binstcd, to be 2nd' liouteniiut (temporary), vice Lieutenant Year, on active service; dated July. 1, 1916.