NO. 3 HOSPITAL
SERVICE WITH 2ND N.Z.E.F.
APPOINTMENTS MADE
The formation of a No. 3 General Hospital for service overseas with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. is now in hand. It will be organised on similar lines to the Nos. 1 and 2 General Hospitals. Dr. G. W. Gower, of Hamilton, has been appointed Officer Commanding the No. 3 Hospital, with the temporary rank of Colonel. Dr. John Russell, of the Mental Hospitals Department, has been appointed Registrar, and other appointments include that of Dr. H. V. Coverdale, of Auckland.
Colonel Gower is promoted from the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served in the last war, first being stationed in France with a field ambulance unit, and later going to the No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst. In 1919 he was surgeon to the New Zealand Military Orthopaedic Hospital in Christchurch with the rank of major. He has been in charge of all medical boards in the Hamilton and Paeroa areas since the outbreak of the present war. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 93, 16 October 1940, Page 11
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