EDUCATING SOLDIERS

Otago Witness, Issue 3402, 28 May 1919, Page 8

EDUCATING SOLDIERS

N.Z.E.F. DIRECTORATE

(- COM OUE OWJJ COKRESPONDENT.) LONDON, March 13.

Colonel H. Stewart, D. 5.0., Canterbury Regiment, who before the war was professor of classics at Canterbury University College, relinquished on March 1 the post of Director of Education to the N.Z.E.F. in order to enter upon his new task of writing the official history of the New Zealand Division in France. The vacancy has been filled by the promotion of Major E. H. Northcroft, N.Z. Field Artillery, who hitherto has been Assistant Director. Major Northcroft is a member of the Waikato firm of barristers and solicitors, Northcroft and Bell.

The following additional N.Z.E.F. scholarships have just been awarded by the Board of Governors: —

5700 D Corporal E. W. Armstrong, 2nd Wellington Regiment. 27172 Sergeant C. L. Bennett, Ist Auckland Regiment. 62197 Captain F. W. Baxter, New Zealand Engineers. 48369 Second Lieutenant W. H. Cocker, Otago Regiment. 36088 Sergeant G. C. C. Davis, New Zealand Engineers. 12/102 Lieutenant A. B. Fordyce, New Zealand M.G.C. 41979 Second Lieutenant N. A. Jory, Ist New Zealand Rifle Brigade. ' 3/1178 Staff-sergeant A. P. Morgan, New Zealand D.C. • 41986 Private 11. L. Massey, Ist Auckland Regiment. . 9/957 Sergeant R. Maclntyre, Otago Mounted Rifles. 41446 Second Lieutenant 11. A. Mackenzie, Ist New Zealand Rifle Brigade. 72125 Private R. A. Sutherland, Ist Otago Regiment. , 3/1201 Private A. B. Taylor, New Zealand M.C. „.., 72387 Warrant Officer (I) S. H. J. Wilson, New Zealand Engineers. 57894 Driver G. V. Wild, N.Z.F.A.