ON SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17576, 18 March 1919, Page 5

ON SERVICE

(Fbom Ocb Owk Cobbespondknt.) LONDON, January 28. Lieutenant P. R. M'R, Hanna, R.P.A. (Auckland), lias been promoted acting captain. At the' beginning of the war he served with the N.Z.E., obtaining his commission early in 1917. | Captain E. O. Mousley, R.F.A. (Auckland), who recently returned from Turkey, vhero he had been a prisoner since the' fall of Kut, was called to the Bar this •week at Lincoln's Inn. Hβ studied- _ at Emmanuel Collage, Cambridge, where' ho graduated LL.B. Only last week ho got tho' degree of H-A. lieutenant B. F. Carrington, R.N.R., will leave for New Zealand by the Cedric on February H. Bafore leaving New Zealand in 1915 _he was _ chief officer of the Tutanekai. : Since joining the naval forces ho served for. six months as first lieutenant of a destroyer and for two and a-half years aa navigator of submarine D 4. He was mentioned in despatches for his work when tho D 4 sank a German submarine in tho Channel. _ This -was a. particularly opportune achievement, for within half an hour of the affair tho White Star linsr Olympic, vrith 6000 American troops on board, passed over tho D 4 as she wag lying sul> merged. Sergeants L. Thomas, 2nd Battation Auckland Regiment, 23/2289. W. Timmins let Battalion, N.Z.R.8., 14884. and V. W Mitchell, sth Battation, N.ZJR.B., 441005, hrave received a bar ifco their Military Modafa. Lady Batmirst advertised her thanks in a London paper to "whoever sent her £he ring which she lost 17 \