NEW ZEALAND ARMY

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1917, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND ARMY

LATEST PROMOTIONS

NEW BATTALION COMMANDERS

AWARDS AND DECORATIONS.

(FROM Ot)R OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 27th March.

Acting Lieut.-Commandant Wybrants Olphert, D.S.C., R.N.R., has been appointed to the Distinguished Service Order. The D.S.C. was gained last October for general service.

Recent promotions include : —Tempor-ary-Lieut. A. C. 11. Millar to be temporary captain, Yorkshire Regiment; Temporary 2nd Lieut. G. R. Mac Donald (Christchurch) from Machine-Gun Corps, to be temporary 2nd lieutenant attached to the Notts and Derby Regiment. Lieut. E. H. Petre (Dunediu), Suffolk Regiment (S.R.) to be acting captain whilst employed as an assistant instructor. Temporary Capt. R. N. Bealey (Christchurch) relinquishes his commission on account of ill-health and is granted the lion, rank of captain. Capt. Bealey obtained his commission in the Ist Sportsman Battalion, and was promoted lieutenant in October, 1915. He obtained his majority in June, 1916, and last December was transferred to the Training Reserve.

2nd Lieut. J. |C. Griffith is now serving with the R-. F. C. in Prance. Mr. Griffith was a private in the Auckland Infantry, and was discharged from the N.Z.E.F. last September on being given a commission in the R.F.C.

Lieut. J. G. Cliff-M'Culloch, D.S.C. (Dannevirke) is now serving on anothef battleship. Lieut. Cliff-M'Culloch was wounded in the Battle of Jutland and received his decoration for services in that engagement. Major 11. Balcombe-Brown, R.F.C. (Christ-church), is at present stationed, at the Central Flying School, Upavon, Wiltshire, where, he commands one of the training squadrons of the R.F.C. Lieut. R. Baigent, R.N.R. (Nelson), lett the Air Service some months ago on account of ill-health and resumed his profession at sea in the R.N.R. > He is now in the submarine service. Mr. Bhigent was formerly with the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. Mr. John Stewart Waters recently arrived in England with his wife and family. Mr. Waters was assistant carshed superintendent to the Wellington Corporation Tramways, and he is now engaged by the Ministry of '.Munitions at°the National Projectile Factory, Birtley, Durham. 2nd Lieut. J. A. Dunn (Peel Forest), 4th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, is now at the Midland Districts School of Signalling, Beresford Barracks, Curragh Camp. An old Wanganui College Boy, M. H. O'Rorke, is serving as a lieutenant with the 12th Royal Lancers in France.

Lord Strathspey, who is better known in New Zealand as the Hon. Trevor Ogil-vie-Grant, brother of the late Earl of Seafield, joins up with the British Forces this week. The Earl of Seafield, it will be remembered, went to the front as a captain in the sth Battalion Cameron Highlanders, which he had helped to raise. He was shot by a German sniper in November, 1915, and never recovered consciousness. He was buried at the Base cemetery at Abeele. Col. the Hon. G. J. Smith is now second in command of the infantry reserve group, and Capt. P. W. Skelley is staff officer. Lieut.-Col. H. E. Pilkington, R.N.Z.A., formerly staff officer, is; now on command at the War Office.

Mr. H. A. Sanders has been appointed official photographer 'to the 'N.Z.E.F., with the honorary rank of lieutenant., Lieut. K. J. Tate, A.M.R., has been appointed brigade transport officer. Lieut. -G. N. Taylor, C.M.R., who was invalided from Gallipoli, has rejoined his regiment, with the rank of captain. Capt. J. S. Barker, C.M.R., is A.D.C. to the G.O.C. Aitzac Mounted Division.

R.S.M. Gordon R. Western, 7/290, has been promoted. 2nd lieutenant in the N.Z. Camel Corps.

2nd Lieuts. F. M. Corkill and K. T. Jenssen are now at the engineer reserve depot in England, and Lievit. J. J. Moore has been appointed adjutant there.

Major D. B. Blair, M.C., is promoted to command a battalion of the Auckland Regiment. Gapt. F. L. G. West, who has been adjutant of the 2nd' Auckland Battalion, is now second in command. Major R. A. Row is promoted Lieut.Colenel commanding one of the Canterbury battalions. Major J. B. M'Clymont has been taken on the strength of the Otago Regiment, and is on duty with the 3rd Reserve Battalion. S.S.M. Walter Cobb, 11/26, is promoted 2nd lieutenant for the Machine: Gun Squadron. . The following doctors have joined the N.Z.M.C. in England :—Capt. W. J. Porteous, R.A.M.C., Capt. E. C. Lowe, Lieuts. P. G. M'Evedy and G. B. Isdale. Miss Coila Brown has joined the i N.Z.A.M.S. in England as a masseuse. Cpl. A. C. De Lmitour and Gnr. F. H. Grace, of the N.Z.F.A., hava completed their cadet course and are promoted 2nd lieutenants. The. following have been nominated .for the School of Instruction in Egypt for commissions in the N.Z.E.F.:—II/827 Sergt. R. Sutherland, 11/760 R.S.M. W. J. Hollia, Wellington Mounted Rifles; 13/129 L.-Sergt. S. ■C. Reid, 13/403 Sergt. D. S. M'Cathie, Auckland M.R., 7/1100 S.S.M. C. L. Mathias, 7/250 S.M. J. O'Brien, Canterbury | M R. • '

Sergt. D. J. Davenport, Auckland Regiment, and C.S.M. F. L. Bowron, Cyclist Corps, have joined a cadet battalion at Cambridge. C.Q.M.S. G. E. Robins, N.Z.R.8., has been. discharged from the N.Z.E.F. on being granted a commission in the Imperial Army. Mr. W. E. Robson (Christchurch) has completed his cadet course and been gazetted to a commission in the Royal Artillery. He expects to leave for the front almost immediately.Capt. J. C. Coates, M.P. for Kaipara, has gone to the front. • Mr. W. E. Moore (Christchurch) has completed his cadet course and is now a 2nd lieutenant in the R.F.A.

Lieut. Brett Wood, R-.F.C, who had an accident while flying, a month or two ago, will probably return to New ■ Zealand on sick leave.

Amongst the latest recipients of the Military Cross is Temp.-Lieut. Alllan George Reid, R.A.M.C.; eldest son of Mr. James Reid (Milton).' Lieut. Reid has been in the army for a little more than a year, and was for some time attached to a Highland Division in England. He went to the front four months ago with the 2nd Field Ambulance of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, and has been decorated for his services at the Battle of the Ancre, in which another New Zealander Lieut.-Colonel Freyberg, gained the V.C. Lieut. Reid's performance is officially described us follows:— "He tended the wounded under very heavy fire and worked continuously for 36 hours in command of a bearer subdivision which was operating in a forward area."

Gapt. William F. Tracy, of the Otago Regiment, received his Military Cross from the King at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has awarded Military Crosses for gallantry in the field to Capt. A. C. Hubbard, Capt. J. E. H. Mewett, and Lieut. C. H. A, Senior, 2nd Auckland Regiment, and

Lieut. F. J. W. Stallard, of the . V Trench Mortar Battery.' Crosses have also been, awarded to the following officers in Egypt .-—Lieut. G.. Mathias and 2nd Lieut. A. B. Johnstone, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and Lieut. A. D. Herrick, Wellington Mounted Rifles. Sir Douglas Haig has also awarded the D.C.M. to 12/3569 Pte. W. G. Brown and the Military Medal to 12/3481 Pte. E. E. Stacey, of the 2nd Auckland Regiment, and the Military Medal to 10/3573 Cpl. H. V. Green, of the V Trench Mortar Battery. Military Medals have been awarded to 13/994 Sergt. S. B. Clarke, A.M.R.; 11670 Pte. R. Hough, Canterbury Regiment; 8/2956 Cpl. R. S. C. Jefferies, Otago Regiment; 12/3603 Sergt. W. J. Cuthbertaon, 23/1567 Sergt. A. T. Brady, 3/483 L.-Cpl. 0. E. Burton, 14487 Pte. F. L. Ryan, 13/3000 Pte. L. F. Ash-win, 1 12/669, Pte. C. B. Yorke, of the 2nd Batt., Auckland Regiment; ActingBomb. W. Trembath, X N.Z. T.M. Battery, 24/1306; 2/494 Cpl. A. A. Curry, V Trench Mortar Battery; 2/293 Cpl. R. H. Horn, Z Trench Mortar Battery; 12/2828 Sergt. C. Rossiter, and 7/2414 Cpl. P. Prendergast, Ist Batt. Auckland Ptegiment.