COLONEL COMMANDANTS
DISTRICT O.C.’s RANK. (Fbom Ooh*Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 12. From to-day the colonels in charge of the three commands in New Zealand, northern, central, and southern, will be known as colonel commandants. They are respectively Colonels Potter, Melvill, and Young. The two latter were brigadiers general in the war, but afterwards, as in similar cases in England, they ranked as colonels on retirement. However, the brigadiers are entitled to their army rank. The reason for the change in nomenclature from colonel to colonel commandant is the advisability of those in charge of commands having seniority over other colonels in the defence forces.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18323, 13 August 1921, Page 10
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