PROMOTION OF STAFF OFFICER

Southland Times, Issue 24546, 22 September 1941, Page 4

PROMOTION OF STAFF OFFICER

FORMERLY STATIONED IN INVERCARGILL The promotion after nearly 30 years’ service as a member of the New Zealand Permanent Staff, to lieutenant and quartermaster, of W.0.l W. R. C. Whyte, regimental sergeant-major of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, has been Gazetted. Lieutenant Whyte has been appointed officer instructor at the District School of Instruction, Burnham. Before joining the permanent staff at Invercargill in 1912, Lieutenant Whyte belonged to the Otago Mounted Rifles from 1900, and during that time he had the honour to sound the Royal Salute to King George V and Queen Mary when they toured New Zealand as the Duke and Duchess of York. At the outbreak of the Great War Lieutenant Whyte served as a mounted rifles instructor in Expeditionary Force training camps, and in 1919 he rejoined his unit in the Southland area. In 1921 he was appointed regimental sergeantmajor of the Otago Mounted Rifles, with the rank of W.0.1, and transferred to headquarters at Dunedin, where he remained until 1937 when he came to Christchurch as regimental sergeantmajor of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, in those days a much larger unit than it is now.

Lieutenant Whyte has been awarded the 16 Years’ Service Medal, the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal.