NEW ZEALAND ARMY

Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 25

NEW ZEALAND ARMY

APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS. THE LATEST LIST. The appointments of the undermentioned officers to the New Zealand Army have been approved:—■ MOUNTED RIFLES. Second Lieutenant William Leonard Harrison, Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles. Second Lieutenant Sidney Isaac Dixon, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Kenneth James Tait, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Ronald Frencie Mackenzie, Unattached List (b), General List. NEW ZEALAND ARTILLERY. Lieutenant Henry Stanley Morran, Reserve of Officers, New Zealand Garrison Artillery. Lieutenant Ivan Victor Sharp, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Second Lieutenant Heatheote Evorard Farr, Unattached List (b), General List. NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS. Lieutenant Ernest Marsden, sth (Wellington) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Frederick King Broadgate, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Percy Roy Angus, Unattached List (b), General List. INFANTRY. Captain Arthur Charles Hubbard, Reservo of officers, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment. Captain Alfred Francis Tunks, Reserve of Officers, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles. Captain William Harry Hawkins (late Pahiatua Rifle Volunteers). Lieutenant Dudley Sedman Chisholm, Unattached List (b), Auckland District. Lieutenant Joseph Atwill, Unattached List (b), Otago District. Lieutenant Louis Wilfred Metcalfe, Unattached List (b), Auckland district. Lieutenant Charles Le France Young, Unattached List (b), General List. _ Lieutenant Philip Arthur Keddell, Retired List. Second Lieutenant Allan Gibb, Unattached List (b), Otago District. Second Lieutenant Eric Brockman Fraser, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Sidney King, Unattached List (b), Wellington District. Second Lieutenant George Gilbert Hancox, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District. Second Lieutenant Joseph Leslie Scoullar, Unattached List (b), Otago District. Second Lieutenant Harold Thomas Fathers, Unattached List (b), Wellington District. Second Lieutenant Eric Claude Spedding, 4th (Otago) Regiment. Second Lieutenant George Edgar Garden, 4th (Otago) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Eric Guest Anccll, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant George Neville Hill, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Arthur Henry Sedgwick Harper, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant James Henry Thomas, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant John Henderson Irving, Unattached List (b). General List. Second Lieutenant Frederick Ashley Hosking, Unattached List (b). General List. Second Lieutenant Charles Ernest Howard Naylor, 'Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant George Henry Davcy, Unattached List (b), General List. NEW ZEALAND ARMY SERVICE ■ CORPS. Second Lieutenant Frederick George Love, Unattached List (b), General List. NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS. Major (temporary) William Little, M.S., M.D., D.P.11. Captain (temporary) William Howard Unwin, M. 8., M.S., F.R.C.S. Captain (temporary) Walter Sneddon Robertson, M. 8., 8.5., N.Z. Captain (temporary) Erie Melvvn Wylie, M. 8., 8.5., N.Z. NEW ZEALAND RIFLES. Captain Alexander Morris Mac Diarmid, Reserve of Officers, sth (Wellington) Regiment. Lieutenant Aubrey Jackson, 17th (Rua hine) Regiment. Lieutenant Samuel Arnold Atkinson, sth (■Wellington) Regiment. Second Lieutenant David Cornelius Bowler, sth (Wellington) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Ernest Belton Tustin, sth (Wellington) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Albert David Smith, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Bertram Joseph Jacobs, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.

Second Lieutenant William Ferguson tt-.-ct. Unattached List (b), Wellington Disfetict.

jnd Lieutenant Norman Hugh Hogg I; Cached List (b) Wellington District. Second Lieutenant John Douglas Vernon, I'natiaunotl List (b), Wellington .District.

Second Lieutenant .John Basil Parker, Un attached List (b) General List.

Second Lieutenant Ernest Edward Madden, Unattached List (h), General List. Second Lieutenant David John Shaw, Gnat' ">r»l T.isfc (b'. General List. Second Lieutenant Oscar Magnusson, Unatt.uou..u Luit (D), General .List. Second Lieutenant Henry Stanley Wagstaff, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Cecil Selwyn Sapsford, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Thomas Henry Torode, Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Rex Clifford Abernethy. Unattached List (b), General List. Second Lieutenant Kenneth Shorland Abernethy, Unattached List (b), General List. PIONEER UNIT. Second Lieutenant William James Little, Unattached List (b), Wellington District. TUNNELLING UNIT. Lieutenant Kimpton MTntosh Barrancc, Unattached List (b), General List Lieutenant Harry Archibald do Lntour, Unattached List (b), General List. 14TH INFANTRY NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. TWENTY-FOUR WIN COMMISSIONS. Twenty-four of the 14th Infantry noncommissioned officers have been promoted second lieutenants on probation, and posted in order of seniority to tho IBth and 19th Reinforcements, as follows: Sergeant H. F. M'D. Sanson, G Company 14th. posted to E Company 18th. Sergeant J. W. C. M'Lcod, G Company 14th. posted to E Company 18th. C.S:M. N. F. Little, G. Company 14th, posted to F Company 18th. C.S.M. C. Waterson, A Company 14th, posted to C Company 18th. Sergeant C. G. Laws. E Company 14th, posted' to J Company 18th. Sergeant S. Davis, A Company 14th, posted to D Company 18th. Sergeant C D. G. Fowler, F Company 14th, posted to G Company 18th. Sergeant L. 11. Denniston, B Company 14th, posted to II Company 18th. Slorgeant C. 11. Holmes, C Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant, R. T. Carylon, D Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant 11. A. Twining, G Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant K. R. White, II Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant G. M. Lucas, C Company 14th, post to 19th. C.S.M. J. N. Billiard, II Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant E. J. Rose, J Company 14th, posted to 14th. Sergeant 11. Worley, B Company 14th. posted to 14th. Sergeant H. SI. Kcnrick, B Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant L. F. Tisdall, C Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant C. B. Willis, B Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant M. Cameron, E Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant I. G. Pritchard, H Company 11th, "posted to 19th. Sergeant A. D. Paisley, G Company 14th, posted to 19th. Sergeant F. J. Traynor, H Company 14th, posted to 19th. Corporal A. Talbot, G Company 14th, posted to 19th. Officers at Trentham Camp have also been allocated as follows: EIGHTEENTH REINFORCEMENTS. A Company; Second Lieutenant F. U. Booth. F _ B Company: Second Lieutenant K. G. Smith. . F Company: Second Lieutenants C. R. Rawlings, D. E. Wanklyn. "THE BRAVEST MEN I KNEW." AN ANZAC REMINISCENCE. The other clay an Anzac officer was giving reminiscences in Christchurcli. Talking of many heroic acts, from privates to General Birdwood, he came back repeatedly to tho li three bravest men I have ever known." The talk was distinctly not for publication, though every line of it was worthy of that, but since then a News representative has asked the narrator to say something that might be published regarding his "three bravest men," particularly as one of them was a Christchurcli boy" who, by all accounts, fully deserved the V.C., and here is the result: These three brave men happened to be all non-combatants, and tho officer considers that they were each as worthy of tho Victoria Cross for supreme and continuous heroism as anyone who got it. Not the courage of dashing into action, but coolly, methodically, two of them medical men and one a storekeeper. They were superlative heroes among the heroes of Anzac. Ono was Captain Craig (N.Z.M.C.), of ~nd. who was one who first landed under Colonel House, Y.C., establishing a hospital there. But as the wounded were brought in the congestion became so great that Captain Craig was directed to open an auxiliary clearing station at tho foot of Artillery lane, and hero Captain Craig attended tho wounded. It was under fire, and the bullets were living and shrapnel was whizzing around. One of his assistants had been shot beside him, and yet Dr Crai" workecTwithout cessation from midday °til! early next morning. Later this gallant officer was under Colonel Plugge, and was wounded. His conduct, his fearlessness, and disregard of danger in the execution of his duty were splendid. Later lie returned to New Zealand after typhoid. "Did ho receive any distinction?" interrupted one. "No, and ho is not likely to; but he deserves it."

The next was one of our own Christchurch medicos—Captain Noil Guthrie, of the N.Z.M.0., attached to the C.M.R., one of the bravest of the brave. Three times was Captain Guthrie wounded, and yet held to his work—never faltering in his duty,—refusing to leave even when pressed to do so. Finally a bullet got him in the back <>f the neck, ami his comrades believed ho was dead. Even the medical officer who was. called up when ho fell let him lie there as ho had fallen, face downwards and still, remarking 1 that lie was done for, and lie must get on with tho

ii> gent cases which Captain Guthrie was attending to when finally shot down. Yet he presently sat up, and, after long suffering, has recovered.

Finally, there was Captain William Book, an ordnance officer. " Beachy Bill" was in charge of the store —a miserable little place. —and whenever he pi\ his nose out of the door bullets tried to hit it. The Turkish gun in Olive Grove was named after him, " Beachy Bill." The store was simply a shop under lire, and Bill looked out and wont on with his work just as if no bullets were about. He was most courteous and humorous, and no assistant at Whiteley's could have been more pleasing and courteous than this bravo storekeeper on Anzac Beach. General Birdwood never failed to call on Captain Beck or call out as he passed on his daily rounds, asking- if ho were there; and they all dreaded that some day there would be no reply from a gaunt figure still in death. But Captain Beck was only concerned for the safety of his customers. Ho hurried them away—never himself.

Captain Bock was born on the West Coast, and is a son of Mrs Beck, of Wellington.