DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

OFFICERS SELECTED

WELLINGTON, Aug. 10. The selection of officers for the expeditionary force wa? announced tonight:—ln command, Col. R. Logan (officer in charge of the Auckland district); staff officer, W. R. Rinwell (general staff officer, Canterbury district) : field cashier, Lieut. Hackworth (oth Regiment); army service corps commander. Captain Wright CAucßlar.d); field ambulance, Major Holmes (Wellington); infantry commander, Col. Charcourt Turner (Wellington, sth Regiment); second infantry commander. Major Fulton; infantry company commanders., Mpjor R. St. J. Beere (Wellington). Major Cowles (Wellington). Captain Wilkinson (assistant adjutant, sth Regiment) will be in charge of the machine gun section; Captain Masquarie (D Mountain Battery. Wellington) and Major Kay will command the Auckland infantry company, and Captains P. and J. Keenan the Railway Engineers. Other apoointments will be announced later.

[The Major Holmes is probably an error, and should read: Surgeon-Major Home, of New Plymouth, Wellington district.]