OVERSEAS OFFICERS

Evening Star, Issue 24321, 9 October 1942, Page 6

OVERSEAS OFFICERS

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 8. The following appointments and promotions of officers of (tie 2nd Ni.Z.E.F. overseas were gazetted to-night;— Lieutenant-colonel (Acting Brigadier) J. T. Burrows is to be brigadier (temp.) while commanding an infantry brigade. The following majors arc to bo lieu-tenant-colonels (temp.) while commanding infantry battalions: —R. W. Harding, M.M., C. L. Pleasants, M.C., and R. E. Remans. Major Barker is appointed to command the Maori Battalion, and is granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. Major (Acting Lieutenant-colonel) D. J. Fountaine, M.C., is to be lieutenant-colonel (temp.) while commanding an infantry battalion. Captain R. S. Pearson is to be major (temp.) while employed as brigade major of an infantry brigade. Major (Temporary Lieutenant-colonel) C. M. Williamson. E.D., is to be lieutenant-colonel, and Major J. K. Robbie is to be lientenanlcolonel (temp.) while commanding a ma-chine-gun battalion. In (lie New Zealand Ordnance Corps, Colonel T. J. King is to be brigadier (temp.) while employed as deputy-direc-tor of ordnance services, General .Headquarters, Middle East forces. In the New Zealand Artillery, Majors J. M. Mitchell and R. C. Queree (temp, lientenant-colonels) arc gazetted lieu-tenant-colonels. Major W. A. T. McGuire, of the New Zealand A.S.C., is gazetted as licatcnanl-coloiiel. In the New Zealand Railway Construction and Maintenance Group, Captain Christie is to he major (temp.) while commanding a New Zealand engineer and ordnance training depot. Brigadier C. E. Weir, D. 5.0., New Zealand Artillery, is appointed officer in charge of New Zealand Artillery, 2nd NiZ.E.F., in addition to his present appointment. Lieutcuaut-coloucl A. H. Andrews, New Zealand Ordnance Corps, is appointed officer in charge of the New Zealand Ordnance Corps, in addition to his present appointment. Major H. E. Crosse, M.C., is appointed to command a New Zealand reception depot. Major I. A. Hart is appointed second in command of the Maori Battalion. Major J. O. Kelsey, New Zealand Ordnance Corps, is appointed staff officer, ordnance services, 2nd N.Z.E.F., and Majors H. M. McElroy, H. M. Green, and T. C. Campbell, M.C., are appointed respective seconds in command of three infantry battalions.