MILITARY FORGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 7

MILITARY FORGES

SENIOR APPOINTMENTS AND

PROMOTIONS

The following, appointments and promoti'ons..:Of .'senior officers .of..the New Zealand Military .Forces have .been ann:__nced..in the Gazette:.— ...'.,..: ~

New Zealand Temporary Staff.—Cap-tain-F. -A. Sadler is appointed adjutant of. a main Nor til- Island camp and': is granted the'temporary rank, of major. New Zealand Armoured Corps.— Auckland (East Coast) Mounted Rifles: Captain H. C. M.-Matthews to be major (temporary). ■ Manawatu ' , Mounted Rifles: Lieutenant ■ (temporary Captain) H. KCameron to be major (temporary), ' New Zealand Major H. W. D. Blake, 2nd N.Z.E.F., to be lieuten-ant-colonel and is appointed to command a field regiment, N.Z.A.; Lieutenant (temporary Captain) B. D. FitzGerald is appointed to command a field battery_ and. is.. granted. -the temporary rank, of major.. .; ..... ; . .. .. . Corps of New Zealand Engineers.— Captain (temporary) V. ' &.. Murphy to be major (temporary), arid'is appointed commander of engineers. in\ a North Island division. " . ■" ■

New Zealand Defence Engineer Service Corps.—Captain (temporary) A. R. Ac'heson, 8.E., to be major, and is appointed to a command in the Manawatu area; Lieutenant L. May, A.M.1.C.E., to-be major, and is posted to a" North Island section;- R. H. P. Ronanyne to be major (temporary) arid is appointed to a command in-the Bay of Plenty area; G. W. O; turner, B.Sc. (Eng,>,./to be major (temporary); and is appointed chief engineer- and build--ings ofncer, headquarters, New ZealandDefence Engineer Service -Corps,,- " New 'Zealand.; infantry.T^Canterbury Regiment: Captain A. ,G.. Gillies, deputy assistant .quartermaster-general in a South Island division, to.be major> (temporary) : : "'" .': ." . -"; .'■ New Zealand Army Nursing Service^ —Sisters' K£M. Williams' and S. E. G.. Sherrard to be charge sisters and re-main-seconded to the R.N.Z^A.F.-"' r -; 1; •.;-. OFFICERS ON ACTIVE SERVICE WITH, THE 2nd N.Z.E.F. OVERSEAS.

New, -Zealand Artillery.—Captain P L. Turner to be major. - •■.•-.'"-'-

New Zealand, Railway Construction and Maintenance Group.—Captain O. J. 8.. Halley..to be major, and is appointed -to. command a railway survey, company. ' . New Zealand Infantry.—The foliowr ing to. be majors. .Captain (temporary Major) A. W. Cooper, Captain R_. -.G... Stringer, Captain W. R. K. Morrison, Captain. R. W. Adams,. Captain C. C. Ibhansen...,:..;. . ' ..'.". r . V"",!--.- ' "- Grants of; Temporary Bank.—New Zealand .Divisi.on.al:Cay.alry:. Captain'R. R. Atkinson to be majpr .while commanding a" New"Zealand' guard rdetachment. New Zealand Artillery; Major J. F. Spr'bsen' to be lieiitenant-coloneJ" while commanding a • field ' regiment; Captain D. B. Patterson to" be major.. New Zealand Engineers: Captain R. G. Pemberton, M.C., to be major while commanding a training depots ; New Zealand Infantry: The following to be l^.ajors while commanding a company— Captain J. C. Porter, Captain G. H. Panckhurst, Captain R, L. Hutchens, Second-Lieutenant, (temporary -.Cap--: tain) C. B. Barrowclough to be majorwhile employed as.,3eputy. Judge Advocate General.. :New Zealand Ordnance Corps: Captain s -N. : L..-Uniacke, to be majpr while.acting, .as;deputy assistant director. of. prdnance suppli.es,. .(ehgizheers), -";iN#w. - Zealand - .divisjqn;r - : New 'Zealand Postal Corps: Captain "A. V. Knap'p to be: major" while-:assistant, director of "postal services, 2nd N.Z.E;F. ' Grant of Acting'Rank.—New Zealan.d Infantry:' Captain '■ (temporary ■ m'ajof) J. H. Kempthorne, Southern Infantry, to be acting lieutenant-colonel while employed as genera] staff ofncer (instructor), Middle East Staff School.

The following other appointments were also announced:— -

Colonel N. L. McKay, M.C., is appointed a fortress commander in the Auckland district. ...., •-,-..-.

Major (temporary . LieutenantColonel) -C. McL,, Smith, relinquishes command of a battalion of the Wellington Regiment, and. is., appointed to a fortress command in the Wellington district...' ' • .'.''". .. .;