OVERSEAS FORCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24336, 28 June 1940, Page 6

OVERSEAS FORCE

OTAGO ENLISTMENTS DECLINE ON RECENT FIGURES TWENTY-FIVE YESTERDAY Twenty-five registrations for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force were recorded at the Kensington Drill Hall yesterday, this representing a considerable decrease on the totals for Otago registered during the past week. The names of two single men and one married man with children were withheld from publication, and the remainder were as follows:

Group II (Single Men) Bernard Joseph Thorn. George Henry Newman. William Lloyd Anderson. Frederick George Fade. John Robert Duncan Ross. Robert Craig McKenzie. Alexander McDowell King. George Alexander Lyall. John Stanley Sexton. Mervyn James Davidson. James Rawcliffe (Oamaru). Curtis Oswald Clapp (Oamaru). George Birnie (Oamaru).. Archibald Charles Johnston (Oamaru). , . William Gordon Johnston (Oamaru). Donald Robert Smith (Oamaru, coastal defence). Group nil (Married Men Without Children) Frederick • William Crooke. Albert Clarence George Hoskins (Oamaru). Group IV (Married Men With. Children). Eric Walter Adams. Robert Nevill. Lbwis Gerald Toswill Charles Aubrey Hay (Oamaru). Draft for Camp Following are the names of a draft which has left for military service in the past day or two: — Officers.—Captain G. E. Nelson, Captain W. A. Thornton. Lieutenant G. K. Miller. , . _ _ „ N.c.o.’s and Other Ranks.—A, J. Bell. J. F. Burrow. W. F. Coutts, W. S. C. W. Langley, H. MacManus, R. G. Sinclair, A. R. Wright, W. K. Middlemass, C A. Bayley, D. D. Black, J. R. Black, F. J. Bond, W. A. Bracegirdle, M. H. Cowles, C. A. Crombie, J. M. Duggie, W. H. G. Duncan, J. Fleming, E T. Hudson. R. C. Ingram, T. J. K. Kennedy, C. W. McCallum, R. A. McDougall W. A. McNaught, J. R. Mitchell, A. G. Monaghan, G. Moore, W. D. Morrison, J. W. Porteous. J. Robinson. H. W. Rowley, J. B. Small, R. J. Smith, W. G. Stedman, C. E. Stewart, D. H. Thomlinson, L. G. Tosswill. E. D. Wilson, P. Winders, L. W. Bell, D. H. Burns, S. R. Carey. P. J. Casey. E. D. Cockburn. J. G. Cook. G. C. Couchman, E. C. Currie. M. P. Forrester, D. McG. Fraser, L. C. Fraser. C. H. Gare, E. E. J. Hammond, A. V. D. Handisides. J. R. Johnson. J. O. Kelman, R. G. Kilgour. G. G. Knight, E. A. Kruskopf, C. Lyons. W. A. Mason, K. P. Marslin, A. E Maunder. J. Mills, H. R. Mitchell. C. E. Morris, M. McK. Munro, J. McCreadie, J. P. Peneamene, J. A. H. Puck, R. H. Potts. J. E. A. Robertson, A. L. Robinson. J. W. Robson, R. B. Rowe, J. M. Simmons, A. J. Spratt, A, J. Stenhouse, C. D. Thorn V. L. Thorn. W. E. D. Valentine, A. V. Tull, E. F. Walsh, I. A. Allison, J. L. Beighton, I. L. Gayford, A. L. Collie, L. S. McFarland, R. J. McKenzie, R. E. Mason, R. P. Nesbitt, C. W. H. Nieper, J. Robertson, W. R. Sayer, F. W. Smith. R. W. J. Thompson. T. H. Towler, J. L. Whitson, L. H. Wilhelmson, J. Jardme C. S. Barnes, K. A. S. McTaggart. A. Mariner, E. R. Josephson, L. G. Turner. F. J. Whitehead. R. E. Whitaker, J. Duff. R. L. Gardiner, E. T. Guise, E. A Moody. E. S. Robertson, C. W. Smith. A. R. Taylor. J. C. Wilson. , Corps of Signals Major Green, assistant director of Signals, will arrive in Dunedin on Monday fcr the purpose of interviewing candidates for positions, either as officers, non-commissioned officers or other ranks, in the Corps of Signals. Applications for such positions will be received at the Kensington Drill Hall only from those who have qualified m some branch of signalling. Applicants should report at the Drill Hall on Saturday morning.