PERSONAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22621, 26 April 1948, Page 6

PERSONAL

LIEU T.-COLONEL (TEMPORARY COLONEL) C. QUEEREE has been promoted to colonel (.temporary brigadier) and appointed Quartermaster-General, New Zealand Military Forces, in succession to Brigadier F. L. Hunt, who is retiring. Colonel Queeree is aged 38 years.—P.A. MR. G. GILCHRIST, Te Aroha, Messrs. C. N. O’Neill and S. J. Hedge, Paeroa, and Mr. Kusabs, Rotorua, representatives of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, were visitors to Gisborne on Saturday to conduct an installation ceremony of the Masonic Lodge in the Abercorn Hall.

WHEN MAJOR A. L. YORKE, Christchurch stepped off the Port Napier at Wellington yesterday it was eight vears four months 14 days since he left New Zealand for service wjth the Second N.Z.E.F. As far as can be ascertained by inquiries at army headquarters,_ it seems that Major Yorke’s continuous service overseas as a member of the Second N.Z.E.F. is a record This record, moreover, is unlikely to be broken for apparently there is no member of the Second N.Z.E.F. still serving overseas who has not at one time or another returned to New Zealand. Major Yorke enlisted in the \ Engineers in September, 1939, and sailed ' with the advance party of the First Echelon in the Awatea on December 11, 1939. He was a member of the last detachment of the Second N.Z.E.F. to remain overseas, with the exception of those with J Force, being one of the four personnel still attached to the New Zealand military headquarters, London, when it ceased to exist on January 31. He had been serving in the United Kingdom since May, 1945.—P.A.