ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 7

ON SERVICE

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

LATEST PROMOTIONS

lOSI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 30th November.

It is announced in Orders that the Rarotongan Contingent will in future be known as -the New Zealand Rarotongan Company, and will be a separate unit for promotion. Capt. G. A. Bush and Lt. G. A. Fromm are transferred from the Maori Battalion to thiß new com- ; pany. . ' | Capt. F. Gorton, Canterbury M.R., is promoted major in succession to Major R. 1. Bruce, who is seconded lot duty with a British formation. I

While Lt.-Col. d'Arcy Chaytor was I on special leave in England, Capt. D. T. Wood, C.M.R., acted as Commandant H.Q. in Egypt. Major R. B. Smythe, D.5.0., is returning to New Zealand on account of ill-health contracted on active service. Lt. T. L. B. King, M.C., has been transferred from the Wellington Ptegiment to the NjZ. Engineers for signal service. Major A. G. Mackenzie, D.5.0., Auckland Regiment, is promoted temporary lieutenant-colonel, in place of Lt.-Col. S. S. Allen, who has been wounded. Major R. Logan, N.Z.S.C, has left the Canterbury Regiment to be brigademajor to the 4th Brigade in place of Major T. B. Eastwood, M.C., who becomes G. 5.0., 2nd New Zealand Division. Lt. T. E. Y. Seddon, Canterbury Regiment, is appointed A.D.C. to Gen. Sir A. H. Russell, vice Lt. W. G. Wood. 2nd-Lt. W. B. Lascelles has been appointed adjutant to the Ist Battalion Canterbury Regiment, with temporary rank of captain. Capt. J. Anderson, Canterbury Begiment, is promoted major. Major W S. Pennycqok has been transferred from the Maori Battalion to the Otago Regiment, but remains assistarit-provost-marshal to the N.Z.E.F. in London. Major J. E. Barton, N.Z.S.C., has left the Otago Regiment to be G.S.O. 3rd N.Z. Division, in place of Major W. 1. K. Jennings, who becomes brigade-major to the First Infantry Brigade. Capt. D. S. Chisholm, adjutant 3rd Battalion, Otago Regiment, has been appointed a staff captain to the 4th Infantry Brigade. Oapt. D. E. Bremner, M.C., Capt. W. G. A. Bishop, M.C., and Capt. K. S. Caldwell. M.C., Otago B-egiment, are promoted majors. Capt. W. H. Hawkins, Wellington Regiment, who has been burial officer, 2nd. Anzac Corps, for some time, and recently injured his right leg at the front, has been declared unfit for general service for twelve months. Capt. J. B. Kirk, Wellington Regiment, has been appointed officer in charge of Convalescent Details at the New Zealand base in France. Lt.iJ. T. Dallinger, Quartermaster, Ist Batt'f Wellington Bgt., has been appointed Adjutant in place of Capt. R. W. Wrightson, M.C., who was wounded. Col. A. E. Stewart, D.5.0., has been on the sick list since- the sth of this month, and has had in consequence to relinquish his -temporary command of the 3rd Brigade. Capt. A. Thompson, N.Z.8.8., is promoted temp. Major owing to Major A. I. Walker being wounded. Major J. M. Rose, M.C., N.Z.M.G.C., has been appointed second-in-command of tfie convalescent hospital at Hornchurch, in place of Major W S. Pennycook. 1 Capt. M. W. Higginson, N.Z.A.S.C., has been appointed for' duty with the Central Purchase Board.

Lt.-Col. M. Holmes, M.8., F.R.C.S., N.Z.M.C., No. 1 Field Ambulance, has been declared by a medical board to be unfit for general service for twelve ■months, and is succeeded by Major G. Craig, who is promoted Lt.-Col. Major Craig has just recovered from injuries received in aD air-raid' in London. Capts. T. R. Ritchie, M.8., G-. S. ' Sharp, M.8., and W. N. Abbott, M.8., M.C., are promoted Majoi's in the N.2.M.C. Gnr. A. Brand, N.Z.F.A., 2/520, has been' discharged from the N.Z.E.F. in England as medically unfit, and Sgt. 6. P. Peake, 12/2438, of the 3rd Auckland Rgt., as medically unfit for twelve months. Lt. B. 0. Montgomerie, R.F.C., who has been under treatment at Eastbourne for several months', is now returning to light duty. His brother, Lt. H. S. Montgomerie, of the Sherwood Foresters, has been appointed a flying officer in the R.F.C. ■ ' Lt. Ernest Mahoney, Ist Royal Inniskillings (Gisborne), was wounded at the fighting at Cambrai on the 20th inst., when for the. first time for a considerable period British cavalry came into use beyond the German, trench line. Lt. Mahoney is now at the Swedish War Hospital in London. Lt. T. F Northcote, of King Edward's Horse and the R.F.C, who was wounded while flying at the front in February, has now been discharged from hospital, and is resuming light duty. Lt. F. S. Maclean, R.F.A. (Napier), has resigned his commission in order to resume his medical studies, and he has been granted the lion, rank of lieutenant. An old boy of Wanganui College, Mr. Maclean was studying medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge, and was the winner of a first-class natural science tripos in 1914. Foi some time he was a trooper in King Edward's Horse, and was later commissioned to the JEt.F.A.

Capt.G. D. Hamilton, N.Z. Contingent, has the rank of major whije employed as Forest Control Officer. Lt. H. W. Bundle, B.F.A. (Dunedin), has had some months' service with his battery in France, and is now in England commanding an anti-aircraft station in the London area. Mr. Bundle is a. barrister, a member of the firm of Eeid, Bundle, and Lemon. Mr. Basil A. Scanlen (Auckland) has lately taken up work at a munitions factory. Ho was formerly with, the N.Z.E.F. 11l health for two months after his arrival iv England prevented him doing any war work. Mr. Scanlen was recently married to his nurse—Miss Ada Mary Mabel Langmaid, only daughter'of the late Capt. Samuel Langmaid. Mrs. Scanlen has been engaged in military nursing since the beginning of the war, and she has returned to France to resume her duties there. Mr. Scanlen is tho second son of Mr. Winslow Scanlen, of Auckland.

Sub.-Lt. D. V. Hanna, R.N.V.8., Auckland, has been promoted lieutenant. He is out in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Mr. A.' W. Sellers (Auckland), who arrived in England a year ago and has been, in the R.F.C. for the last six months, as a first-class air mechanic, has been given his discharge from the Army on account of ill-health. Mi 1., Sellers is unablo because of his health to return to New Zca. land yet. and his movements at present lire uncertain.

2nd Lt. V. A. Mules, King Edward's Horse, he.?, boon promoted lieutenant. Lt.-Col. R. W. Frost, D.5.0., Canadian Ex Force, is a G. 5.0., 2nd Grade. L.-Cpl. J- W. Eeid-Jones (Gisbornc), of the British Machine-Gun Corps, has been invalided from France, suffering from trench fever, find is in hospital at Birmingham. Cpl. Jones's brother, Sgt, Terry Jone*, a!«o n well-known

Poverty Bay horseman, was killed a few months ago serving with the 'New Zealand Bifle Brigade. Lt. Hubert Philip. Solomon, R.F.C., who was killed in action on the 19th of October, was born in Dunedin and educated at Wellington College. He was well known throughout the Dominion as a commercial traveller, and before enlisting in.; the N.Z.E.F. in 1915 had an indent agency in Christchurch. He ea,w service in Egypt, and coming to England about October, 1916, got hie commission in the R.F.C.. Two months later he went to France as a pilot, and remained there until April of this year, when he was appointed instructor in night flying in England. He was killed on the night of the 19th October while attacking a Zeppelin raiding the east of England? Lt. Solomon was buried with military honours at Gainsborough. He has a brother, a. sergeant, in, the Canadian Expeditionary Force. This week's casualty list contains the following names among the wounded, all New Zealanders attached to British regiments:—lst Class Air Mechanic P. C. Wand, R.F.C., No. 8201 (Auckland); Pte. J. Colling, No. 40546, Lanes. Fus. ; Pte. J. W. Hampton, No. 19949, Lanes, Fus. (Auckland}; Pte. A. AndeTson, No. 35188, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Auckland); Gnr. A. M. Kyle, No. 192943, B.F.A. (Duuedin).