ON SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 12, 14 January 1919, Page 7

ON SERVICE

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS

( (MOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 31«t October.

Lieutenants G. P. Fitzgerald arid E. 0. Rowley, N.Z.M.0., have completed the prescribed period of service, and now have captain's rank. With the rank of lieutenant, S.-Sgt. A. R. Otway, 3/711, is Radiologist at Brockenhurst Hospital,l and S.-Sgt. E. D. Cachemaille, 10/2539, also as lieutenant, in the N.Z.M.C., is to command the .New Zealand Sanitary section in place of Captain H.-lj!. Finch., who returns to medical duties. Major '' T. E. Ritchie and Captain S. Scoular, N.Z.M.C., have been declared medically unfit for general service within twelve months. Sister li. E. Brandon, A.R.R.C., N.Z.A.N.S., has been taking a course of infantile paralysis training, and this course is now being taken by Sister E. J. Harris. The following Staff-nurses have been promoted sisters : —R. T. Levien, L. T. Newell, P. M. Warner, E. A. Wilson, F. W. Murray, I. Gordon-Boyd, M. W. Anderson, M. ,E. Afljeck, L. I. .Cumberworth, E. M'B. Goldsmith, and H. Scott. ' Lieutenant W. S. Seed, N.Z. Dental Corps, has been posted for duty at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, as assistant dental officer. Major J. N'. Rishworth, N.Z.D.C., is now lieutenant-colonel. The Rev. C. J. Rush-King and the Rev, C. H. Olds, N.Z.C.D,, recently arrived from New Zealand, are with the 4th New Zealand Infantry (Reserve) Brigade. The Bev. E. D. Rice has left Brockenhurst for the New Zealand Base Depot. The Rev. C. H. Harvey has been, with the 3rd Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and is now at Codford, while from Codford, the Rev. H. L. B. Goertz has gone to the N.Z.R.B. The Rev. T. N. Cuttle is at Walton. Lieutenant W. Middleton, R.A.F., who was. wounded in the advance in August, has now quite recovered, and has been posted to the School of Military Aeronautics at Reading. Lieutenant G.. H. M'Meeking is transfered from the Tunnelling Company to the Wellington Regiment. Captain J. H. Grover, N.Z.S.C., is Seconded from the Wellington Regiment; for duty at Codford, and Captain G. W. Braddell for duty as company command-1 er at Hornchurch. / , Lieutenant-Colonel-J.L. Short has relinquished command of the 3rd Reserve Battalion, Wellington Regiment, to proceed to the Senior Officers' School. He is succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel H. Holdernese. Captain A. F. Grenfell, quartermaster of the 3rd Battalion, Wellington Regiment, 'has gone to the Engineer Reserve Depot for duty. He is succeeded by Captain R^.L. Evatt. Lieutenant G. S. Bishop, N.Z.R.8., is declared unfit for general service for twelve months. He has been serving with thg Light Railway Operating" Company. Lieutenant G. Halse, of th« same regiment; is also declared unfit for twelve months. ■. ■ • Major T. R. Eastwood, M.C., of the N.Z.R.8., has relinquished the appointment of G.S.O. 11. to the N.Z. Division, And rejoined the British Army. He is succeeded as G.S.O. 11. by Major H. M. W. Rithardsoii, D.S.Q., M.C., lately Brigade Major to the 2nd Infantry Brigade, j Major N. F. Shepherd hi promoted Lieutenant-Colonel to command, the sth Reserve Battalion of the Rifle Brigade on account of Lieutenant-Colonel E! Puttick, D.5.0., heing invalided to New Zealand. . Major H. E. Barrowclough, M.C., Rifle Brigadt, is promoted LieutenantColonel while temporarily commanding a battalion, in place of Lieutenant-Col-onel R. St. J. Beere, wounded. Lieutenant E. A. P. Cockroft is appointed quartermaster at the Machinegun Reserve Depot, in place of Lieutenant A. B. Fordyce. '. . ' Lieutenant H. D. Caplen, R.F.A. (Hawera), has been in Mesopotamia for some time, and is attached to the Independent Divisional Ammunition Column. Lieutenant Caplen states that the winter in Mesopotamia was fairly cold, bu,t the summer 'was not nearly so hot as/last summer. The highest shade temperature at Bagdad was between 117 and 118 deg., whereas last year it was over 122. The following New Zealanders nave received their decorations from the King at Buckingham Palace : —Military Cross :' Major W. E. L'. Napier, Auckland Regiment ; Captain A. A. Chapman, N.Z.R.B. ; Captain Charles Oxenham, Auckland Regiment (att. N.Z.L.T.M.8.); : Lieutenant Kenneth Scott, Otago Regiment; Lieutenant Ronald Buchanan, N.Z.M.G.C.; Lieutenant Alfred S. Herbert; Otago M.R., and Lieutenant Edward Winkler, N.Z.F.A. Under date 4th October, the following staff-nurses have been taken on the strength of the N.Z.E.P.:—I. K. Honeyfield, R. Hamilton, E. H. Lewis, F. ft. A. de Lisle, A. S. Withell, J. R. Law, J. Holton, M. Harrow«U, M. A. Kirk, M. R. Smale, D... Chittenden, M. D. M'Nab, D. Everett, and C. ■ Everett. Lady Findlay and her. two sons— Major J. Wilfred Findlay, M.G.C., and Captain J. Lloyd Findlay, M.C.,'R:A.F —are going out to New Zealand, via Canada, at an parly date. Ever since the.beginning of the war Lady,Findlay has been one of the nyost active' of our hospital visitors, being'associated chiefly with the Ist London General (Camberwell),,, and latter with tile No. 2 N.Z. General (Walton). She is very sorry to give up her work here, but on return to New Zealand will be associated with the Red Cross—she is now;on the Red Cross Committee here. Major J. W Findlay and Captain J. L. Findlay have had continuous service throughout the war, the first-named with the King's Royal Riiles and the Machine-gun Corps, and the latter with the East Surrey Regiment, before transferring a year ago.to the Royal Air Force. Both are going out to New Zealand on furlough. A New Zealander who transferred to the R.N.R., after three years', service with the N.Z.E.F., is Eng.-Sub.-Lieut. Charles Scott, serving in H.M.S. Slinger. Lieutenant C. E. Gribble (Mt. Eden) who is reported to have died of wounds', got his commission in the Leicestershire Regiment in 1916, from the Inns of Court O.T.C. He had served almost continuously in Franco and was wounded last month. The death is announced by drowning of Charles Frederick Smith (son of Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Smith, of Paeroa, and grandson of the late Captain H. B. Hopper, of the Royal Bengal'lnfantry). lie was eighteen years of age. / "The Triangle Trail," the publication of the N.Z.Y.M.C.A., says of the lato Sergeant S. Forsyth, V.C. :~ "He was a man of retiring nature, almost to self-effacement, yet he exercised on his fellows that strong, telling influence which is the inevitable result of a consistent life. His work for the Y.M.C.A. among the New-Zealand Engineer Companies will remain as a monument to his whole-souled devotion to God and' his fellows. A nflin of initiative and resource, possessed of boundless energy, ho kept his life a perfect poiso by his complete reliance on the Source of all strength. He was-, one of the foundation members of the Brotherhood of Men of Goodwill, and always on* of the staunches* supporters."