MILITARY FORCES

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12638, 24 December 1926, Page 5

MILITARY FORCES

„ STAFF CHANGES r RECENT APPOINTMENTS. ' TEe following changes in the staff of the New Zealand military forces' have been gazetted:— Staff. Major P. B. Henderson. M.C.. N.Z. Staff Corps, relinquishes the appointment of Officer in Charge, Trentham Camp. Dated November Ist. 1926. Captain H. H. VVhyte. M.C., N.Z. Army Ordnance Corps, relinquishes the appointment of Ordnance Officer. Ordnance Depot, Trentham. and is appointed Officer in Change, Trentham Camp, vice Major P. B. Btenderspn, M.C., N.Z. S.C.. and retains the appointment of Ordnance Officer, Central Command. Dated November 2nd, 1926. sth N.Z. Mounted Elites (Otago Hussars). .Lieutenant D. A. Solomon is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I. (b) R.D. 11. Dated November 25th, 1926. , The N.Z. Infantry. The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own)! Lieutenant EL G. Jones, Ist Battalion, is transferred to' the Reserve of Officers, Class X. (b) R.D. 1. Dated November 24th, 1926. Second Lieutenant (oh: probation) W. E. La Rocho, from tho Southland Regiment. to be Second Lieutenant (on probation), with seniority as from June Jjth, 1926, and is seconded for duty with v/®, *st C, Battalion. Dated November 23rd, 1926. Francis Mathew Price to be Second ijeutenant {pn probation), and is secondJ°j duty .with the Ist C. Battalion. Jvated November Bth. 1926. ’ : North Auckland Regiment • ,**®n r y Frank Chandler to be Second Lieutenant, Ist Battalion. Dated November. 4th, 1926. The Wellington Regiment. The-appointment of Second Lieutenant (on probation! fl. A. Heron, let C Bat--192® 511 * lapses Dated November 24th, - The Hawke’s Bay Regiment, Captain .T. H. Irving, M.C., Ist Bat--1926°* t 0 be a, * or ' March 2nd, : The Cahterbury Regiment. . Lieutenant J. M. King. Ist Battalion, is soconded for duty with tho 2nd C Battalion, with his original seniority. Dated November 26th, 1926. The undermentioned fo be Second Lieutenants, Ist Battalion? Dated December "til, 1926: John Birch Allan. Geoffrey Morris, Sydney John Cecil Williams. The undermentioned to be Second Lieutenants,. and are. seconded for duty with the 4th C Battalion'. Dated December 7th, 1926: Robert Duncan Buchanan, Chester Marmion Gray, Neil Wyatt Maitland Hawkins, lan Cams Maclaine, Robert David Morrow. Jack Leonard Partridge, The Southland Regiment. Second Lieuteniant (on probation) W. E. La Roche, from the Southland Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant (on probation) with (seniority as from June llth, 1926, and is seconded for. dute wi,tb

the Ist C Battalion. Dated November 23rd, 1926. N.Z. Medical Corps. Lieutenant R. G. Phillip6-Turnev. M. 8., is transferred from the Central Depot. N.Z.M.C., to the Northern Depot, N.Z.M.C., with seniority as from February 3rd, 1926. N.Z. Chaplains Department. Tho Rev. Edward Barnes to bo Chaplain, 4th Class (C. of 10.). Dated November 23rd, 1920. The Reserve of Officers. The undermentioned are posted to the Retired List under the provisions of G.O. 184/21, with permission to retain their rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated November 27th, 1926: Scclond Lieutenant R. A. Sloan; Second Lieutenant F. Macaskill, D.C.M.