FIRST PROMOTION
X.Z. ROYAL NAVY DIVISION. (■Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. The first promotion in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy of a native-born lower-deck rating to warrant officer rank has been gazetted. He is Mr 6. R. Davis-Goff, actinggunner (torpedoes). Joining the Navy as a seaman hoy in 1921, Mr Davis-Goff has reached the warrant officer rank at just under 27 years of age. He proceeded progressively to ordinary' seaman in 1922, able seaman in 1924, leading seaman in 1927, and petty officer in 1930, Mr Davis-Goff is now in England, and will serve in either the Home Elect or Mediterranean Fleet lor a y r ear before he returns to Now Zealand. Mr Davis-Goff’s home is in Khandallah, Wellington.
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Northern Advocate, 17 August 1932, Page 8
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124FIRST PROMOTION Northern Advocate, 17 August 1932, Page 8
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