AUCKLAND BATTALION
COLONEL MACKY AS C.O
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, November 7
Restored to the reserve of officer? of the New Zealand Military F:rcc!: last week, Colonel N. L. Macky, M.C., has been appointed to command the Twenty-first. Auckland Battalion in the Second echelon oi the second (N.Z.) division. With other officers of _ the echelon from the Northern Military District. Colonel Macky will elite 1 camp at. Narrow Neck to-morrow lor a. refresher course. He is dropping his “star" to take an appointment ai. Lieutenant-Colonel. , Colonel Macky was one of too tout officers who were posted to the. retir led list last year after the issuing; o. a manifesto on May 18. . i Throughout the- Great War, Colone. Mackv served with the New Zealand. Rifle Brigade. He was awarded the Military Cross for Ills work in loading two platoons of his battalion tr the capture of Flers on the Somme cn September 15, 1916. It was on this I day that tanks were first used. . A, the- Armistice he was the only' officer ■ in his battalion who was with it. wnen i the battalion was formed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1939, Page 5
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