EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 9

EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

OFFICERS IN, EUROPE.

AOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.

[BY TEI.EGIU.r-H. rRESS ASSOCIATION-.]

Wellington. Friday. Tetk undermentioned grants of temporary rank, appointments and promotions of officers employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Europe have been made: —

Auckland Mounted Rifles: Captain Charles Reginald Ernest Mackesy, to be major, vice Major Alfred Tattersall, certified by Medical Board unfit for active service for six months, dated July 16; Captain George Augustus King, NewZealand Staff Corps, from staff captain, Otago Mounted Rifles, to be major, appointed second in command, vice Major Frank Chapman, died of wounds, dated August 9 ; 2nd Lieutenant Walter David Ruddock, to be lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Holloway Elliott Winder, killed in action, dated August 9; 2nd Lieutenant Ewen John McGregor, Auckland Mounted Rifles, temporarily appointed machine-gun officer Mounted Rifles, vice Captain Peter Bain Henderson, New Zealand Staff Corps, wounded, dated September 3 (2nd Lieutenant Ewen John McGregor has also been granted temporary rank of lieutenant while employed as brieade machinegun officer, dated September 13); Lieutenant John Henry Herroldj granted temporary rank of captain, supernumerary to establishment, dated August 15. The following second lieutenants, having served the prescribed period in that rank, to be lieutenants; Guy Spencer Cheeseman, dated February 24; Douglas Gifford Moore, dated March 11 ; Donald Alexander Finlayson, dated May 28; Henry Daniel William*, dated May" 28. Auckland Infantry : Lieutenant Colin Stewart Aigie, to be captain, vice Captain Wilfred Courtney Sinel, promoted April 26. 1915; Sergeant John Mackenzie, to be 2nd lieutenant, vice 2nd Lieutenant Robert Mooney. killed in ] action dated August 8; -Sergeant- : Major George Davies Pace, permanent staff, granted temporary rank of 2nd lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Norman William McDonald Weir, invalided to New Zealand, dated August 8: Sergeant George Henry Holland, granted temporary rank 2nd lieutenant, vice 2nd lieutenant Rupert Walter Westmacoit, invalided, dated August 8. Artillerv : Lieutenant-Colonel George Napier Johnston, R.A.. to be colonel, granted temporary rank of brigadiergeneral; Major Francis Bernard Sykes, granted temporary rank of lieutenantcolonel; Captains Clyde McGilp and Francis Gustavus Hume, to be majors, dated July 26; Lieutenant Henrv Arthur Davies, to be captain and to be brigade major; Lieutenant James Mac Donald Richmond, to be captain; lieutenants to be —Victor Rogers, Reginald Miles; second-lieutenants to be captains— Thomas Farr, Alfred Ernest Horwood ; to be second-lieutenantsßattery SergeantMajor Michael, Joseph Lyons. Battery Sergeant-Major Alexander "Smith Milne, Sergeant Herbert Alfred Christie, Sergeant Janes Birdwood McKenzie, Sergeant Spencer Boscowen, and to bo aide-de-camp, Sergeant Ernest Francis Hilary Knowles; granted temporary rank of 2nd lieutenant S. M. Frederick Daly, Battery Sergeant- Charles Woods, Sergeant Robert Mcpherson. Engineers: Lieutenant Charles Darwin Cooke, appointed temporarily to command Divisional Signal Company and granted temporary rank of captain; Lieutenant William Stevens McCrorie, temporarily appointed adjutant. New Zealand * and Australian Divisional Engineers; Sergeant H. W. Newman, to be 2nd lieutenant; Sergeant Hugh Sebastian King, to be 2nd lieutenant.

Army Service Corps, New Zealand and Australian Divisional Train : Caotain (temporary major) Henry Esau Avery, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be major; Lieutenant C. E. May, to be captain; lieutenants to be captains James Binnie Whyte, Dick Radcliffe, James Garfield Stewart, Montagu Wynyard Higginson, complete establishment; 2nd lieutenants to be lieutenants— Dobson Dryden, Alan McClunnie Woodward, Arthur Reginald Bushall; to be 2nd lieutenants Staff Sergeant-Major Jasper George William Salt, Staff Sergeant-Major John Joseph Wass, Company Sergeant-Major Harry Archer Pothine; 2nd Lieutenant John Hirschberg to be lieutenant; Ser-geant-Major Harold Richards to be 2nd lieutenant.

Captains Charles Eric Andrews and Francis Henry Lampden, New Zea land Staff Corps, New Zealand and Australian Divisional Train, are transferred for duty with the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. Medical Corps : Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Mackie Begg, temporarily appointed AD.M.S. ; Major Engine Joseph O'Neill, D.5.0.. to be lieutenant-colonel; Major Donald Norman Watson Murray, appointed to command New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, Field Ambulance, granted temporary rank of lieutenantcolonel : Captain Cyril Hocken Tewsley, to be major; Lieutenant David Nathan Isaacs, to be captain; Sergeant-Ma jor George Sandham, granted honorary rank of lieutenant. Veterinary Corps: Farrier Quarter-master-Sergeant Robert Irvine, artillery, to be 2nd lieutenant. New Zealand Army Pay Department : Captain James William Hutcheu, to be major : Honorary-Lieutenant Thomas Law less, to be lieutenant; Captain Norman Fitzherbert, to be major ; Thomas Edward Donne, New Zealand Records Office, London, granted honorary rank of captain ; Sergeant Frank Lawton Hindley, Canter bury Mounted Rifles (supervising clerk), to be 2nd lieutenant, Records Office, Alex andria. Maori Contingent: Captain Frederick Burton Mabrn, quartermaster and paymaster, is seconded for dutv under the Governor and Commander-in-Chief. Malta ; Sergeant J. Bright, Arrrrv Pay Depart ment, to be 2nd lieutenant; Captain Frederick Burton Ma-bin is granted temporary rank of major while employed as commandant of tlie convalescent camp at Malta.