COMMISSIONED RANKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 114, 9 November 1940, Page 8

COMMISSIONED RANKS

MILITARY FORGES

APPOINTMENTS MADE

The following .appointments , .and promotions of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces have been gazetted:— . Major A. H. L. Sugden, N.Z.S.C., Commandant, Army School of Instruction, Trentham, is granted the temporary rank. of ■ Lieutenant-Colonel while so employed. Captain 3. H. Sharp, N.Z.S.C., Staff Officer, Supplies and Transport, Army Headquarters,- is granted the temporary rank of Major while so employed. Captain R: J. :D. Davis, Instructor, Army School of Instruction, Trentham, is granted the temporary rank of Major while so employed. Regiment of Royal N.Z. Artillery. Captain J. P. Joyce, D.C.M., Staff Officer, Artillery, Army Headquarters, is granted the temporary rank of Major while so employed. N.Z. Permanent Staff.. Lieutenant and Quartermaster (acting Captain and Quartermaster) G. P. O'Leary, attached to the Quarter-master-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, is granted the temporary rank, of Captain and Quartermaster while so employed. Lieutenant and Quartermaster G: F. McCulloch, M.8.E., Adjutant and Instructor, Army School of Instruction, Trentham, is-granted the temporary rank of Captain and Quartermaster while so employed. Lieutenant and Quartermaster W. F. Sellen, Assistant Area Officer, No. 5 Area, and Adjutant,: Ist Battalion, The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own), is granted the temporary rank of Captain and Quartermaster while so employed. Lieutenant.and Quartermaster G. W. O'Sullivan, General Staff Officer, 3rd Grade, Army Headquarters, is granted the temporary rank of Captain and Quartermaster while so employed. N.Z. Army Ordnanec Corps. Captain S. B. Wallace, 8.E., Chief Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, Trentham, is granted • the temporary rank of Major while so employed. Hon. Lieutenant J. W. Evers, to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster, is appointed Assistant to the Chief Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, Trentham, and is granted the temporary rank of Captain, and Quartermaster while so' employed. Commands and Staff. Major L. R. Witheli; N.Z. Army Ordnance Corps, is appointed Chief Inspectors of Munitions in addition to his appointment as Inspecting Ordnance Officer. " - I'-'Lieutenant-Colonel.'-D. G. S. TJrmson, 0.8. E., N.Z. Temporary Staff, relinquishes the appointment: of General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade (Operations), Army Headquarters, Wellington, on rejoining the Indian Army. , Major R. F.. Gruar. N.Z. Temporary Staff, relinquishes the appointment of General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade,-Cen-tral Military District,. Wellington, on [rejoining the Indian Army. i -.' '■■..' ; I N.Z. Temporary Staff. Lieutenant-Colonel F. K. Turnbull, D.5.0., M.C, is appointed Officer Com-, manding,. No. .3 Training Battalion, Mobilisation; Camp V; Trentham. :■■ Major :R. F. Mitchell, .■ M.C., V.D.^ is appointed Officer Commanding, No. 1 Training Battalion, Mobilisation Camp, Trentham. , Captain W. j.. A. Morris, Reserve of Officers, to be Lieutenant,, and is appointed Quartermaster, No. 3 Training Battalion, Mobilisation Camp, Trentham.. James Cruse, late N.Z. Army Service Corps, to be Lieutenant, and is appointed Motor Transport Technical Officer, Waiouru Military Camp. Lieutenant (acting Captain) A. Hirschhorn (Central Military District) to, be Captain. Robert Thomson St. Lawrence (late Royal Army Service Corps) to be Captain, Motor Transport Section, and is,seconded for .duty as Orderly Officer to the Inspector-General, N.Z. Military Forces. The following are appointed dental officers at Trentham Mobilisation Camp:-— ■ Lieutenants S, A. S. Blue, H. N. Anderson, J. Hawksworth, J.. B. Muir. National Military Reserve. Major C. McL. Smith is appointed officer commanding the 2nd (Wellington) Battalion and is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. . Lieutenant-Colonel Sugden, Lieutenant-Colonel Sugden was born at Geraldine* Canterbury, and educated at Christ's College. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia, in 1921, and received his first appointment to commission as a lieutenant in the New Zealand Staff Corps. He held various staff appointments in Wellington, Hawerav Dunedin, and Napier, until 1927, when he proceeded to India and was attached, to the 2nd . Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He returned to New Zealand, in 1929 and six years later went to. England, where he attended a series.of courses, in small arms, machine-gun, anti-gas,, and other military subjects at various army schools. He returned to New Zealand in 1937 and was attached to the Army School, Trentham, as instructor until his appointment in May last as Commandant.