LONG-SERVICE RECORDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 10

LONG-SERVICE RECORDS.

L many * MAIN 80OY wit«; - . DECOEATIOHS FOR OI'HOEHS, . GEN,: TOIDmJM'S , CABEm, The draft which arrived from Egypt «§•» . terdayj include many men with 'Ktofc ana distinguished records of service. . Following , ere fads about some of the officers, moist . of Whom left with the Main Body i-*^ ■ _ Brcadier-Gendral >Wi Meldrum, C.MG.. . 0.5.0., left Now Zealand as colonel in ' .command of the Wellington ' Mounted ' j Rifles. In . civil life "• ho practised law in - j HiintaryiUft,. He- is an • eld hoy :of the) t ( Auckland Grammar School and has reive. i, Rented the Auckland Province both in Rugby and cricket. Ha has had a*distJn- ► gjwshed railitaiy career. Be commanded ' the Wft|hngton Mounted RiSes bath on Galileo's" and ro Palestine, When General , Sir E. W; C. Ohnytor was promoted from . w® command of the New Zealand Mounted Bins? Brigade to the command of t,|io Ansae Division, Colonel Mfildmjn was ; promoted brigadier-genera! ill command of the Now Zealand Brigade. For a, tiro# ; General Moldraro commanded the Second Anzac Brigade, . ' _ LieutenanfrColDnel J, N. McCSsmdi, P.8.Q., left New Zealand as major cora- ' mandfo& the Ilth, North Auckland, Sanad- ■ ron, which ho led on Gsillipoli, In Pate*- ; fcne ho commanded the Auckland Mounted Kie«3 in succession to Colonel 0- £• R. • Matltesy, who come homo on- duty and ' returned to tali® th& Governorship of ; _Weutenajat.Colonel J. Findjay, 0.8., I P;®'°v f wa l !> n command of tha Canter- >. bury Mounted Rifles, Main Body; He was •wounded on Gallipot!. * P^LT a^ C °lZ ml u A ", a Bachelor, of Palmpstop s*«r*h, who has also returned is now inoomraaud of the Wellington Mounted Rifles. He left as a squadron commander in the Main Body. Major A, C. ,}}: JNw*. M.Q, and bar, 0 f Kamo, left New Zealand as Hen tenant in the 11th, North' Auckland Squadron, Main Body, anil hits had a distinguished career, t#terly he commanded laSfef 0 ' his decoration* to •vr®£ "i* ?* Herrold, of Rerauera, . left >ew , Zealand as a captain in the 3rd squadron, Auckland Mounted Rifles Ho was invalided from Gillipoli, where ho d-«tingmslied himself in the Aujmst' often - on ancl after & time in "™ a 1,0 ™" on base duty in Egypt. .Major A. 0 ; Hinman, -of Mount Eden, ?.°m U i «"wWno-«>n action iLa l, J cklnnc} Mounted Rifles, Ma : n hefj'rin f? V Tl y weeded in the i iiea d on GftljijpQlt, but returned to the ; regiment, with wh'Yh he Eerved as Tarks" £Ua 9 ® CC * until tJ W defeat of the • 1 Almost all the junior officers left New! i ® 8 troopers. Many of them have 1 remarkable wcorda. Amons them are :—Lieutenant .S. C. Rdd MiliA^&- a 8011 °* M Jot> * Raid,* of w on® of the few who saw the Narrows from the crest of Chanuk Bair, «i Auatist, 1915, and who has been wounded twice; Lieutenant E, J, Folov. of j4oant ,r m i who performed notable Qajl'jpon; Captain M. E. Johnson, Military Cross and bar, of Ohakuno 3 pew --ant «- Gillespie, of Hmnua; Lie«. tenant T. G, Hmton. of • Lieu. tenant R E L. ~M' Glare, of BnawS ; L'eutenant W. Stewart, of RtnnVv Bav ■ Lsentenant W., D. S. C lima, Ma3ai?atorotoj lamvtpinßrii F, A- F" 1 J v of Riff^cman; L'ttitrrsant C. J. JeiskinE, of Poparoaf r. ie -- + e"-nt A. F,. Tees, at Te Sim® 5 M i !S t , n"«t_ P. , «T. McClafehi®, Military Med-ii. 01 Km#sla-d : Lien e ant L. N. Roberta, of D^rjr^vilJs; and Lieutenant J. W. Watson, Military Medal. of ! Cambridge. . * , Is tba rants there are many men whs ' 2?YS wved ftlrorrfc continuously since Oaiiipph, , . For Ptanc», Ser,acant-Mnj;ir ■ H. Etsenhul. and Sergeant 3. J. Jackson 1 haw been a every the Auckland /MoUated Bifles Ra<j'nrspnt has hues in. There ftra other men with ffroat swords, and there has never been a trauaport which has. brought hack so m?ny officers and men with such loajr-ssrvico records. L-isnfeentint Buflocfe Webstar, of Ber^ttera who returned .with the draft, now holds » commission in the 2nd Bengal Lancers He left New Waßd with tlso Auckland i Infantry, Mam Body. . 4 ■ !