PERSONAL ITEMS
Private J. W. Merrie of Timaru, and formerly of Nelson, is at present visiting Nelson on leave. Major C. V. Sugden, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed second In command of the 27th Machine-gun Battalion. First Echelon. Special Force. He has been acting for some weeks as camp commandant at Waiouru. A graduate of the Royal Millltary College of Australia. Major Sugden has been twenty years with the New Zealand Staff Corps. His appointments over this period included service in India from 1920 to 1922. He has been stationed at Trentham, Palmerston North. Masterton. Wellington, Nelson, and Blenheim, and at the outbreak of war was adjutant Of the Ist Battalion of the Canterbury Regiment at Christchurch. Promoted captain in 1926. Major Sugden was one of a number of staff corps officers promoted to the rank of major at the beginning of the war.
Mr and Mrs J. G. Ingram who have been on a visit to Great Britain have returned to Nelson.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 15 December 1939, Page 4
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