MILITARY OFFICERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 4 March 1919, Page 6

MILITARY OFFICERS

SEVERAL LEAVING FOR ENGLAND

Lieutenant-Colonel R. Neave, Essex Regiment, late Infantry Instructor at Trentham Camp, left for England by the Ruahine last week. He was accompanied by Lieutenant A. G. Baker, Royal Engineers, 1 late Signalling Instructor at Featherston Camp. Colonel N. P. Adams, 0.M.G., New Zealand Field Artillery^ who held the position of Commandant of Featherston Camp from the date of its inception until after the armistice, has decided to go to England for? several years. He will proceed via the Vancouver route, leaving by the Makura from Auckland. Major Sir Robert Walker, Bart., Coldstreiam Guards (S.R-), late General Staff officer, Auckland Military District, is also- leaving by the Makura j from Auckland, en route to England. Colonel O. R. Macdonald, C.M.G., Imperial General Staff, wno filled the position of Chief Infantry Instructor in the New Zealand reinforcement training camps throughout the war, will leave for England by the Argyllshire on Marelr 20fch. He will ibe accompanied ■by-Major H. A. Copper, Imperial General Staff, late General Staff officer, Otago Military District. Surgeon-General R. S. F. Henderson, ( G. 8., Director-Geßeral of Medical Sor-' viceg will sail for England early in April. Colonel C- H. Gibbon, 0.M.G., 1.G.5., Chief of the General Staff, is booked to sail for England by the Romuera early in May. '