ARMY PROMOTIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23810, 11 November 1940, Page 9

ARMY PROMOTIONS

TRENTHAM„COMMANDANT NORTHERN DISTRICT POSTS The promotion of Major A. H. L. Stigden, Commandant, Army School of Instruction, Trentham, to the' temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel is gazetted. Other appointments and promotions notified in the Gazette include the fol-, lowing: — Royal New Zealand Artillery.—Lieutenant and Quartermaster (temporary) F. A. Wetherall, M.8.F., Deputy-As-sistant Quartermaster-General, Northern Military District, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temporary). / New Zealand Permanent Staff.— Lieutenant and Quartermaster J. W. McMurray, chief instructor, Northern District School, Narrow Neck,, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temporary). Army Ordnance Corps.—Lieutenant and Quartermaster S. Thomson, Officer in Charge Workshops, Devonport, to bo Captain and Quartermaster ..(temporary). New Zealand Temporary Staff.-—Cap-tain H. S. Harrison, Quartermaster, Papakura, to be Major (temporary). New Zealand Artillery.—Second-Lieu-tenant (temporary) R. D. Horton, 11th Heavy Battery 9th Heavy Regiment, to be Lieutenant (temporary). Corps of Signals.—Captain G. J. Robertshaw, Northern District Signal Company, to be Major (temporary). Auckland Regiment.—Captain A. H. Hunt, Ist Cadet Battalion, to be Major; Lieutenants V. C. Butler and L. Lucena, Ist Battalion, to be Captains (temporary) j H. F. Prothero (late Imperial Army); to be Captain (temporary), and posted to Ist Battalion; Second-Lieutenant I. G. McLean and Second-Lieutenants (temporary), T. H. C. Caughey and R. H. Chisholm, Ist Battalion, to be Lieutenants (temporary). North Auckland Regiment.—Captains O. jS. Olsen and J. A. Lambden, M.C., Ist Battalion, to be.Majors (temporary); Lieutenants K." Haslett, R. M. Harding, F.-C. Cornwall, M.C., and J. A. Cresswell, M.C., Ist Battalion, to be Captains (temporary); Lieutenant H. S. Bannister, Ist Battalion, to be Quartermaster with the temporary rank of Captain. Waikato Regiment.—Captain F. Kingsford, Ist Battalion, to be Major (temporary); Lieutenants C. A. Yoss, and L. J. Smith and Lieutenant (temporary) W. J. Dick, Ist Battalion, t» be Captains (temporary); Lieutenant and Quartermaster W. S. Dingle, Ist Battalion, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temporary). New Zealand Medical Corps.—Drs. J. H. La wry and R. Warnock to be Lieutenants (temporary Captains), Northern Military District. Army Nursing Service. —Sister H. M. Comrie, to be Matron for the Northern Military District.