OVERSEAS SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 8

OVERSEAS SERVICE

MORE DRAFTS FOR CAMP TRENTHAM. lURNHAM. ANB LYTTELTII ENLISTMENTS FOR THIRD EGNELIN A small draft of 11 men will leave. Dunedin by the 11.35 a.m. express on Tuesday, bound for Trentham. Nine of these men are for the First General * Hospital, and two for the First New Zealand Convalescence Depot. The names are:— First ' General Hospital.—Alfred Grass (corporal),' N. Bateman, Ji W« Blake, C. A. Andrews, S. Lawson, A. T. Wilson, S. E. Wolfenden, Thomas Morris, H. Patrick. First New Zealand Convalescence Depot.—L. J. Meldrum, J. E. Russell. On Wednesday a draft comprising the Railway Construction Company will leave for Burnham, and on Thursday men who have enlisted for .coast defence will depart for Lyttelton. The Rev. R. Doddis, of the South Dunedin Presbyterian Church, who has enlisted as a chaplain to the second echelon, is to report to Papakura camp, and will leave Dunedin on February 20. r Enlistments for the third echelon continued at a steady, though not. particularly high level. For to-day » total of 10 names had been received up till 1 p.m., two of which were not for publication. The other names are:— GROUP 1. —Officers.— Major Norman Charles Speight. GROUP 2. —Single Men.— Claude Henry Fraser. Reginald. Burt Clark. George Bryant Bowler. Colin Hanson. Wallace Harbin M‘Arthur. GROUP 4. —Married Men With Children.—*' William Walker. John Alexander Paterson. AIR FORCE CHANGES PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS GAZETTED 1 The following promotions and transfers of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force have been gazetted;— general Duties branch. Flying-officer Gordon Kenneth Dundas M'Kenzie (T.A.F.); administrative and special duties branch, is transferred to the general duties branch his present rank. Dated I6th January, 1940. ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH. Flying-officer John te Kerekiekis Grace (T.A.F.),/is transferred from ths equipment branch, section 1, to, the administrative and special duties branch, and retains his present seniority. Dated January 16, 1940. •_ . The appointment of Flying-officers Maurice Beehau Furlong and Owen Evans to their temporary commission# in the equipment branch, section 1, is to be dated September 20, 1939. ,* or the purposes of seniority. Dated January 19, 1940. • i • t; Pilot-officers Montague Frederics: Foate (Reserve of Officers), Hardis Ker Tait (temporary commission), Owen Wares (temporary commission), and William Robert Esquilant (temporary commission), to he flying-officers as from January 1, 1940.