NEW ZEALAND ARMY ABROAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16433, 12 July 1915, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND ARMY ABROAD

FIELD PROMOTIONS. The following are the latest punt, of temporary rank, appointments, aod promotions of officers : n the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, now serving in field:— TEMPORARY RANK. /r- Ma i^ r exan< icr Burnett Charters, 17th (Kuahine) Regiment, to have the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, while in cotain and of the New Zealand Section, Infantry 1915° Depot ' Aiejcandria; dated April 5, Major Alfred Henry Herbert, 9th (Weilmgton East Coast) Mounted Rifles, to nave temporary rank of Jieutenant-cokmeL wni'e m command of tie Maori Contingoit; dated March 26, 1915. Lieutenant Norman Fltzherbert, officer in charge of records, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, to have temporary rank o£ captain, while so employed; dated April 5, TO BE CAPTAINS. Lien tenant H. M'Callum, New Zealand Medical Corps; dat«d November 20, 1914 Lieutenant Albert Edward Mills Jones (Maori Contingent); dated April 3, 1915. Lieutenant Pinmi Tahiwa (Maori Coatingent); dated April 3, 1915. TO BE LIEUTENANTS Second Lieutenant Owen Herbert Mead, Canterbury Infantry Battalion; September 1, 1914. Second Lieutenant Arthur Tahu Grc»»enor Hhodes, aide-de-camp to general officer comnianding; dated October 1, 1914. Second Lieutenant Francis Davison, Ist Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry OavaJry); dated October 4, 1914. Second Lieutenant Noel St«adman, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment (since killed in action); dated October 18. 1914. Second Lieutenant William Godfrey Skelton, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment (since killed in action): dated October 21, 1914. Second Lieutenant George Noel Taylor, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles; dated November 10, 1914. Second Lieutenant Alexander M-Coll, llth Regiment (Taranaki Rifles); dated November 27, 1914. Second Lieutenant George Ross Mitchell12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles; dated Novemt ber 30. 1914.

Second Lieutenant Preston Logan, llth (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles (since died of wounds); dated December 15, 1914. Second Lieutenant George Carlisle Bailey, Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles; dated December 22, 1914. Second Lieutenant Lawrence Clervaux Chaytor, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles; dated December 24, 1914. Second Lieutenant Alan Standish Wilder 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles; dated December 28, 1914. Second Lieutenant Robert Nicol Morpeth, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment; dated Januurv 4. 1915.

Second Lieutenant Douglas Playfair Fraser, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment: dated January 4, 1915. Second Lieutenant Eric Arthur Scott, 12th' (Ot&go) Mounted Rifles; dated January 8, 1915.

Second Lieutenant Francis Leveson-Gcrwer VVest, 3rd ' (Auckland) Regiment; dated January 27, 1915.

Sscond Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Dodson, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment (since killed in action); dated January 29, 1915. Second Lieutenant Claude St. Clair Hamilton, 10th (North- Ot&go) Regiment; dated January 29, 1915. Second Lieutenant Richard Ewen Eggleston, 4th (Otago) Regiment; dated Fehrnary 15, 1915. Second Lieutenant Eric Buckingham Alley, 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles; dated .February 26, 1915. Seoond Lieutenant Herman Stuart Baddeley, 16th (Waikato) Regiment; dated March 19, 1915. Second Lieutenant- Alexander Cameron Monteith Finlayson, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles; dated March 19, 1915. Second Lieutenant Charles Frederick Smedley, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles; dated March 19, 1915. Second Lieutenant Arthur Edwaxd Alexander, New Zealand Engineers; dated March 30. 1915. TO BE SECOND LIEUTENANTS. New Zealand Army Ordnance Corpe. Sergeant Norman Joseph Levien, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment; dated April 3, 1915. Sergeant Thomas Joseph King, sth. (Wellington) Regiment; dated April 3, 1915. Maori Contingent. Company Sergeant-major William Hutehi Walker; dated April 3, 1915. Sergeant John Charles Tikao; dated April 3, 1915.