NAVAL PROMOTION
N.Z. Rating’s Commission WARRANT GAZETTED First on the Station The first promotion in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy of a native-born lower-deck rating to commissioned rank has been gazetted. He is Mr. G. R. Davis-Goff, acting-gunner (torpedoes). Joining the Navy as a seaman boy in 1921, Mr. Davis-Goff has reached the warrant officer rank at just under 27 years of age. He proceeded progressively to ordinary seaman in 1922, able seaman in 1924, leading seaman in 1927, and petty officer in 1930. Mr. Davis-Goff is now in England, and will serve in either the Home Fleet or Mediterranean Fleet for a year before he returns to New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 10
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113NAVAL PROMOTION Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 10
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