EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
MOVEMENTS OF DRAFTS IMPROVEMENT IN ENLISTMENTS TWENTY-ONE REGISTRATIONS YESTERDAY This morning two small drafts of men who have enlisted for service with the second echelon of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force left for northern camps. These men, whose names were published last night, wore attached to the First General Hospital and the First Now Zealand Convalescence Depot units. To-morrow 11 men will leave by the 11.35 a.in. express for Burnham for training with the Railway Construction Company. Another draft of 12 men will leave on Friday' for Lyttelton, these having enlisted for coast defence. The names of the men comprising these drafts are : Railway Construction Company. — Charles Clark. William H. Beel. G. B. Bowler, D. W. Clark, G. W, A. Coekburn, Victor Lewis, Colin Hanson, Hugh Maloney, David Paterson. G. A. Roekell, D. A. Thomson. Coast Defence.—Michael James Corlet, Bramwoll Alfred Dobson, Ronald Arthur Donaldson. William Andrew Dooley. Stanley James Moore, Gordon Edward Munro, Neil Alexander M‘Custer, William Murray Stewart. David Gordon Woods. Leslie Robert Nicholls, Ivor Rudolph Powell, L. M. Fraser. LATEST REGISTRATIONS. There was a much-improved response to the call to the colours yesterday, when 21 applications for enlistment with the third echelon were received. Three of the names are not for publication, the remaining 18 being:— GROUP 2. —Single Men.— Stephen Michael Scolcs. William Peter Carter (coast defence). Alister McLaren Harrison. Albert Charles Brnhns. William Stanley Sivertscn. James William Welsh. Maurice Desmond M'Vcigli. George Roger Chance. James Kirk. Charles Field Jeffery. Tan Walmsley M'Kinnon. Roland Mosley. Winston John Griffin. GROUP 4. —Married Men With Children.William Patrick Gonrlick. Daniel John M‘lntyre. Walter Larkins. Alexander Leek Smith. Gordon Barr.
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Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 8
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273EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 8
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