MILITARY MATTERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 55, 6 March 1911, Page 2

MILITARY MATTERS.

The meritorious service medal has been, awarded to Sergeant John P. Key, of the Royal New Zealand Artillery.

The appointment of Alexander F. R. Crawford to a captaincy in the New Zealand Medical Corps is gazetted.

The following officers have been transferred to the reserve:—Major Lewis J. Joyce (with rank of Lieu-tenant-Colonel) ; Captain S. Vincent Trask (of New Zealand Militia), and Captain W. S. Baird (New Zealand Medical Corps). The following officers have been transferred from the New Zealand Militia to the New Zealand Staff Corps with their present rank:— Colonels Alfred William Robin, C.8., Richard Hutton Davies, C.8., Edward Seyerin Heard.

Lieutenant-Colonels Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor (temporary colonel) Arthur Bauchop, C.M.G., George Cecil Burleigh Wolfe (temporary colonel), John Edward Hawkins, V.D. (temporary colonel), Vere Staunton Smyth (temporary colonel), John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, D.S.O. Majors John Gethin Hughes, D.S.O and Thomas William McDonald.

Captains Richard John Spotswood Seddon, Harry Rowland Potter, Harry Harwood Browne, George Spafford Richardson, Robert Carpenter, Daniel Aloysius Hickey.' D.5.0., Robert Oswald Chesney, John Evelyn Duio- an bamuel Alexander Grant, James Henry Whyte, James Edgecumbe Barton, and William Leo Robinson