ON ACTIVE SEETICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16850, 15 May 1918, Page 4

ON ACTIVE SEETICE.

NEWS OF NEW ZEALAND&RB. \ APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED. [FB.OK ops own COBEESPOKDEHT.I j, m LONDON. April a A Captain W. C. MoCaw. F.R.C.8.. NZMOstet&r ° £ left »»#*«ft%ao Lieut -Colonel H. J. McLean. MD $ w»~ 7.1 j l o haa been commanding tfe tfew- Zealand Entrenching Group, Field Ambulance, is to command So. 3 New ZealiSf General Hospital, vice Lieut-Colonel Pr?' Fenwick. CJSi.G.. M.D.. F.R.C.S.. who J; to the command of No 1 NeW Zeal™/ ; General Hospital -"aland Lieutenants G.-B. Isdale and \V W Young, N.Z.M.C.. have both been pronWX*. to captain's rank; Cantains c> 5both of the are to command^ 0 -- rnljoV* " £eld ""tulauc? with rank "; m % Mowing postings of' New Zealand medical officers have been approved :-Sr A. S. Brewis goes from No. 2 New ZaaSsS General Hospital to the New Zealand < tfle jn.jS.k.b Keaerve Depot goes to S5E 1 ? & w So |sbpg£, who ha? been on* date at the New Zealand Convalescent Hoi pital goes to Brockenharst • Captain V» S^? h is in England for training*£ && : gffidics: he has.been at the New Zealand andV- 0 ;- NewlZeal^TrabinrUni^ S ? d £&"%* m Eff / Bt - aDd the position v of R.M.O. to the A.M.R. is AIISS-'"" by Captain N. S. WBitW ffi ■ Captain J. S. Daniell, who was commanding the New Zealand Medical Reserve Decot until he became dl has been posted total? No. i? N.Z. General Hospital; Captain H. p. Barron, who has been R.M 0 to ffc 3rd Battalon Canterbury Regiment ° now takes charge.of the New Zealand Entrench ' 3 .8 Group Field Ambulance; and Lieutenmt A. N. MacMillan takes charge of No 1 New Zealand Field Ambulance, after having been Reinforcement Officer at the base, thus m„ i Field- feuiancTV o^»\4- ™ McCaw goes from the No i lwtfc Ambulance to No. 2: Lieutenant T?t*Christie goes from the New zSSEfui p L< Depot at Moascar to the 4tt (XSi PS? Imperial Camel Corps tAMM) Bat " The Rev. R. C. Houohen, M.C., rtp « pfaced* - V°Ne^ 6W Z -W " of ill-health Lused WouU U ° D acwunt Postings of Chaplains. The following postings °* chaplains have peen approved:—The Rev P. q tJwi :: General Hospital- the T?»v tp t m- r<-iS ' Reinforcement Camp, Reserve Depot: Adintanf T s wj- ade >V Sec.) ne ß^ a g «° .*«■ n1 &«S& &*%££* JSafW ted w wounded i^L&? n ,? ffi " a »y sazetWellington), CiWteSMciif- T?' ?**»? Paterson (Onehunga? Cataltl fc l^ 1 J' serve; Gunner HP- t™ tr? Re- ; ron. AuddandT W Zeal *ad Yacht Squadwith the ofE? fe - Eagimore instatip* ;•>.*+%» " i ?" , ' 0P «:-.'4J ns w "no a r^VfSa^^-4SI"B majors who are of New Zealand Wrtl. S ? Tie Brigade Commands. -■ . Brigadier-General 'H. Hart. DS O rnr^i fr^^^ ho <k T wmm Tßrffi; +l« .its formation until it was abßnrjSa 8 i: ft?, <te^ ll^- been - transferred to P cornmand J -S£j^§ a S l^* 111 Place of Briiadier> t S* 11 *™ 1 W. G Braitiwaite, C.M.G. General ! S | r^l^ I K' s^ 0 -:? ie^o «aly banged to thf Royal Welsh Fusiliera, hat now seared l;« ctmnectioa with the New zlakmd SSnoa 1 Bfe U P° llltme °t °i B.G.G.S. of a _Staff-Nurse ;? A. • Eatfeck} •-■ of Christehurcht -Hospital, - who «ame ■ Home recently hv rffi-3 hospital ship Marama, has been appointed matron of the London Institution^S Captain K. L Caldwell. M.0., R.FC (Auckland), has been promoted trom .jiTgnt- ■ conimander to;~ saiadron-commander, , with ; tie rank of major, i,-:;- -. >•'? ;-'- "■""-. * The death; ig anhounoed, while on ; services at sea. of Lieutenant Sir John Henry Algernon Anson, Ht.. R.N.,«»t the age of twen|yS i ?■'■• %£*"* AJasons was the : elder -Son' - of th« late Rear-Admiral A. Hi Anson, .and t the Hon. Mrs. Anson, who was a daughter of a t«e sixth.. Lord Vernon. *He succeeded his' cousin. Sir . Denis Anson—son of the late Mr. W A.. Anson, of Akaroa—who was - drownad in , the Thamas Awhile returrdng trora a, midnight excursion up-river, at -&aM beginning of July, 1914. Sir Desis had only just succeeded his uncle, Sir William Anson,MJ>. , for . Oxford < University, as . fourth baronet.. Sir John, who was a. .cousin of % Sir Denis Anson, entered the l Royal Naval C college at Osborne in September, 1909. bevS coming midsnipman .in.-May, 1914; and sublieutenant and lieutenant quite lately. -WhaS: title goes to, hisi. brother, Edward Reynelli Anson, who was born in 1902. . > ' vi'-S* Petty-Officer H. Ernest Wild, R.N., has met.his death in the Mediterranean, : while serving . on a'. mine-sweeper. In the last Shackleton expedilion to the Antarctic he'.--was one of the Aurora party, and tod 'charge*.' of the stores. He behaved with conspicupus bravery after the Aurora had been blown from her moorings off the Ross Barrier, aad v it was chiefly owing to his efforts that the men left -behind were saved. Ernest Wild: was a brother of Prank Wild. -Shackleton's;'-. second-in-command. Corporal H. W. Michael. M.M.. London 4; Regiment, has been wounded. " He comes 1 '; from Auckland. .if* First-class Air-Mechanic P. C. Waud, R.F.C.. is posted as believed drowned He ' came from Auckland. In 1917, Mr. Waud was serving in France as a wireless operator . attached to the R.G.A. and C.F.A.. and ■ with the latter he was wounded and sent to England. In October he was posted to a mihtarjr school for aeronautics, and was v awaiting instructions at Farnborough At that time he was considered unfit for over-;* seas duty, and anticipated remaining ■ in England on duty. He is believed to have been drowned at the end. of December.'