ARMY ADMINISTRATION

Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 2

ARMY ADMINISTRATION

CHANGES IN DUNEDIN AREA APPOINTMENT OF COLONEL S. M. SATTERTHWAITE In accordance with the policy ot regular officers, as they become available, replacing officers of the New Zealand Temporary Staff, Colonel S. M. Satterthwaite, New Zealand StanCorps, has assumed the appointment of Area Commander, Area XI., Dunedin, vice Colonel J. G. Jeffery, M.C., V.D., A.D.C., who has held the position since 1940, and who is now returning to civil life. The appointment takes place as from to-morrow. Colonel Satterthwaite served in the

1914-18 war and the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and held the appointment ot brigade intelligence officer. He was severely wounded near Bapaume in 1918, and invalided to New Zealand. He is well known in Dunedin, where he has previously held staff appointments, and was from 1926 to 1934 Adjutant. Ist Battalion Otago Regiment, before leaving to assume the appointment of Commandant of the District Military School at Burnham. During the present war he served in the Middle East with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. and after holding regimental and staff appointments was appointed to command the 26th Battalion and was mentioned in despatches for distinguished .service in the field. Last year he returned to New Zealand to assume the appointment of Commandant of the New Zealand Tactical School at Wanganui, and has now been promoted colonel and appointed to Dunedin.