ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16498, 26 March 1917, Page 6

ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

DECORATIONS BESTOWED.

RECENT PROMOTIONS.

[from OUR OWN CO]

LONDON, Feb. 13. Decorations l were bestowed at Buckingham Palace this week upon officers, men i and nurses. Brigadier-General J. T. Bur-nett-Stuart : received the- C.B. (military); Captain F. Starnes, New- Zealand- Infantry, the D.5.0.; and Lieutenant Reginald Chetham-Strode, Border Regiment, i the Military Cross. ' ' , ." Recent ; appointments to the New Zea- ; land Medical Corps include Captain A. • L. Singer, Gisborne, and Captain G. W." ■ Gower, Hamilton, both -of whom have : served a . year ; with the : Royal:; Army Medical Corps. ■ ■". ' , ' About twenty New ; Zealandcrs ■>■ are at present taking a navigation course at ■; tho Royal Naval College, Greenwich. On ■' its completion in a • few weeks' time .they will bo sent ,to■ Southampton for further ' instruction. Three; at least of the pre-, ', sent ; students are f ifrom Auckland—Sub- • i Lieutenants W. J. Nolan, L. Jenkinson, : j and R. P. H. Mays V, - ,-.■■ .Mr. W. :C' Leys : (Auckland), has, been ' granted a temporary commission as sub- ' lieutenant R.N.V.R. , t r ' , ; : Second-Lieutenant i. Leslie N. Mackay, RN.A;S.' (Auckland) met with an; acci- : dent while flying, with the result;.:that i threei ribs are broken and the spine ini' hired. Ho is making a slow recovery. _ A : Private E. L. Thorn, Auckland In- ' T fantry, has, left the N.Z.E.F. for a duty '/. in-the Royal Navy. # >! . Latest v callers f-: at -■• tho';High ■ ComraisI' : sioner's Office have included : Sub-Lieuten-\M ant A. E. Choyce, R.N.V.R.■■■ (Auckland). . Captain G. ;E. Eliott (Auckland) and - % Mrs '^' Eliott, ; : r Sister 4 . M. ?■% Sutherland, I ;■ NZ.A.N.S. (Waiapu); Sub-Lieutenant G. '•■.N:- : Reid, R.N.V.R. (Auckland);-.■; Sub-; Lieutenant W. Ranwell Ingram, ' RN.V.R. (Auckland), Sub-Lieutenant ' I J. C. Hewson, R.N.V.R. (Auckland). %