AUCKLANDER'S PROMOTION.
COMMISSION WON ON FIELD. -g|
A private cable message reoived by Mfc .. J. L. Chalmers, of Oakland* Road, Mount ' Eden, announces that his son, Quarter- . master-Sergeant H. R. N. Chalmers, has been sent to Oxford for fou • months for V" further training, with a view to taking up a commission which has beei assigned H||fi| hjgi. Prior to his enlistment , which l w £jf||| place in February of last yea . Mr. Cbal* j mers was on the staff of the Sank of New Zealand in Taranaki, Fiji ai d Auckland. In the course of his educatio lal career h* was senior boy of his year . t St. Johns College, and also captain o the colle? 9 football team. While in ca np in N«*gj||| Zealand he rose from the ran <s to be $||||| geant, and on the field he w « promotion to quartermaster-sergeant, besides,; tyi|j present step to commissioned rank, ~- ', >•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16468, 19 February 1917, Page 8
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152AUCKLANDER'S PROMOTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16468, 19 February 1917, Page 8
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