MAIN EXPEDITION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 91, 14 October 1914, Page 2

MAIN EXPEDITION

— THE REINFORCEMENTS PROPOSED APPOINTMENTS. Following is the list of the proposed appointments to commissions in the reinforcements contingent to the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force : — Commander: Lieut. -Colonel B. R. Bowler, 7th (Southland) "Mounted Rifles. Staff Officer : Captain. C. E. Andrews, N.Z. Staff Corps. Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. — Major or Captain : Captain Horace S. Whitehorn, late hon. captain, Commonwealth Military Forces. Subalterns: Second Lieutenant Geo. L. Purchas, Brookfield, Unattached Eist; Second Lieutenant W. T. Palmer, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment. —Major or Captain : Major P. W. Johnson, Ist Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomen Cavalry). Subalterns : Lieutenant Jolm Coe, Ist Mounted Rifles(C.Y.C.); Lieutenant Vincent F. Nancarrow, Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles. Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment. — Major or Captain: Captain IT. Twistleton (officer commanding Legion of Frontiersmen, N.Z.). Subalterns : Lieutenant J. A. Munro, 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment. — Major or Captain : Major W. F. Levin, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles. Subalterns : Not yet selected. Wellington Infantry Battalion. — Major or Captain :' Major Alexander Burnett Charters, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment. Subalterns : Not yet selected Auckland Infantry Battalion. — Subalterns : Lieutenant H. G. Richardson, Coast Defence detachment, 4 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Baiifttrfy's Own) ; Lieutenant Lawrence H. Gillett, 16th' (Waikato) Regiment; Lieutenant G. de B. Devereaux, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own) ; Second Lieutenant J. R. Bodley, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment. Canterbury Infantry Battalion.—Subalterns : Lieutenant L. J. Gibbs, North Canterbury and Westland Regiment ; Lieutenant F. W. Parker, 12th (Nelson) Regiment; Lieutenant N. R. Wilson, Unattached Liet'(b); Second Lieutenant A. F. R. Robloff, Corps o£ New Zealand Engineers (New Zealand Railway Engineers). Otago Infantry Battalion.— Major or Captain : Major E. Mitchell, Bth (Southland) Regiment. Subalterns : Lieutenant D. Colquhoun, 14th (South Otago) Regiment ; Second Lieutenant H. R. Ker, 4th (Otago) Regiment (Coast Defence detachment) ; Second Lieutenant W. H. S. Widdowson, 10th (North Otago) Regiment. Field Artillery Brigade. — To be found from the Field Artillery Brigade, Expeditionary Force. Selected N.C.O's to be promoted and appointed. Signal Company. — Subaltern : Lieutenant H. C. Mackenzie! Unattached List (b). Divisional Train (one company^.—Subaltern : Second Lieutenant C. L. Crump, Unattached List (b). Army Pay Department.—Second Lieutenant L. C. Forgie, Headquarters, Wellington. New Zealand" Army Service Corps. — Second Lieutenant G. E. Elliott. Howitzer Battery.— Major or Captain : Captain A. 0. C. Stevens* New Zealand Staff Corps. Subalterns : Lieutenant N. S. Falla, B Battery, N.Z. Field Artillery ; Lieutenant R. Miles, Royal N.Z. Artillery; Lieutenant Duncan E. Gardner, J. Buttery, N.Z. Field Artillery. ,