NEW ZEALAND

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5727, 2 October 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND

IMPERIAL ARMY

NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS

By Telegraph. —Press Association Wellington, Thursday.

The following information regarding the employment of New Zealand officers in England six weeks ago, or soon after war bioke out, has been received at the headquarters of the Defence Depaitment from Major G. S. Richardson, New Zealand representative at the War Office, London: Colonel V. S. Smyth, lately officer commanding the Canterbury military district, has bsen attached to the southern command. Colonel E. S. Heard, Imperial General Staff, lately Chief of the General Staff of the New Zealand Defence Forces, has been attached to the War Office. It was expected his duties would keep him there for some little time. Major M. M. Gardiner was temporarily attached to the staff of the coust defences, at Harwich. Car> tain R. B. Smythe was at the coast defences on the Tyne. Captain C. W. Melvill. Army Reserve officer, had a prospect of being posted to the South Lancashire Regiment, and therefore of going witn the Imperial reinforcements to the front. Captain F. 11. Lampen was assisting at the High Commissioner's Office, dealing with the enrolment of New Zealanders in London. Captain R. 0. Chesney had a prospect of being called from the Staff College to the War Office, as Major Richardson would be required for other duties than representing New Zealand at the War Office. Lieut J. L. H. Turner, sun of Colonel C. 11. Turner, of the Samoan Expeditionary Force, had been posted to 43rd Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and Lieut. H A. Daviea R.N.Z.A., to the 34th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, both of which are with the Expeditionary Foice. The last two officers mentioned, therefore, are probably already serving on the Continent. Major Richardson, in his advice, stated there were then indications of many New Zealanders in the United Kingdom getting commissions in the British territorial forces and special reserves. The special arrangements by New Zealand for the composition and equipment of a New Zealand Expeditionary Force, states Major Richardson, had met with the full appreciation of the War Office, their forward state being in very large measure due to the visit made by Colonel Allen, Defence Minister, to London last year, and to New Zealand having been represented at the War Office since the early part of 1912.