ARMY POSTINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 178, 31 July 1940, Page 4

ARMY POSTINGS

TWO WANGANUI MEN PROMOTED RAIL AND FORESTRY UNITS COMPLETE LISTS GAZETTED Two Wanganui railways officials who joined the Army nave been gazetted as having been promoted in their specialist units. Former staff clerk A. E. Jull has been gazetted as captain in the Seventeenth (New Zealand) Railways Operating Company, New Zealand Engineers, and the former assistant district engineer, W. W. Lucy, has also been gazetted captain in the Eighteenth (New Zealand) Army Troops Coy.. New Zealand Engineers. The lull list is as follows: — 12th Railway Survey Company.— Captain (temporary) S. T. Dibble, promoted from lieutenant and transferred from the Bth, Field Company, New Zealand Engineers; Captain F. L. Park, Captain G. W. Nelson, SecondLieutenants K. J. Mawson, R. G. Drummond and J. A. Andrew. 13th Railway Construction Company.—Major R. T. Smith, Captain A. G. Park, Second-Lieutenants A. A. Treloar, L. C. E. Malt, G. K. Armstrong (commissioned from the Advanced Training Company) and F. K. Roberts. 14th Forestry Company.—Captain O. Jones, Lieutenant H. E. Crosse, M.C., Second-Lieutenants J. B. Valentine, B. J. Climo (commissioned from the Advanced Training Company) and W. Austin. 15th Forestry Company.—Captain Courtney Biggs, Lieutenant C. McManus, M.M., Second-Lieutenants J. O. Gough, E. S. Tuck, A. L. Poole and K. O. Tunnicliff. 16th Railway Operating Company. --Major F. W. Aickin, Captain G. T. Poole, Second-Lieutenants D. A. Clarke, C. H. B. Bishop and J, M. B. Lockett. 17th Railway Operating Company. —Major A. H. Sage, M.M., Captain A. E. Jull, Second-Lieutenants J. N. Nicholson, A. T. McMurtrie and H. J. H. Waterhouse. 18th Army Troops Company.—Captain W. W. Lucy, Second-Lieutenants J. R. Coucher (commissioned from the Advanced Training Company) and R. J. Collins (commissioned from the Advanced Training Company). CHAPLAINS APPOINTED The Gazette also contains the following postings to the Chaplains Department, New Zealand Military Forces, applying to the Auckland area:—The Rev. C. W. Duncumb (Baptist) to be chaplain. 2nd class; the Rev. G. M. Marinovich (Roman Catholic) to be chaplain, 4th class; the Rev. F. G. Walls (Roman Catholic) to be chaplain. 4th class; Mr. H. C. Goflin (Salvation Army) to he chaplain, 4th class.