N.Z.E.F. OVERSEAS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 191, 15 August 1941, Page 6

N.Z.E.F. OVERSEAS

PROMOTIONS GAZETTED CHANGES AMONG SENIOR OFFICERS (Press Assn.) Wellington, Aug. 14. Among the appointments, promotions and transfers of members of the Second N.Z.E.F. gazetted to-nighr is the notification that Brigadier N. S. Falla relinquishes the appointment of commandant. Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force Base, on being plac'd on the New Zealand roll. Lieut.-Colonel J. M. Allen relinquishes command of the 31st. (Auckland) Battalion and is appointed Io command the 21st. (Auckland) Battalion. vice Lieut.-Colonel M. L. Macky, who relinquishes the command. Major D. F. Leckie is appointed to command (he 23rd. (CanterburyOtago) Battalion temporarily, vic? Lieut.-Colonel A. S. Falconer, who becomes temporary brigadier. Major R. C. Queree relinquishes his appointment as brigade-major 2nd. New Zealand Divisional Artillery and is appointed Genera! Staff Officer, sec-ond-grade. 2nd. Now Zealand Division vice Major F. L. H. Davis, who relinquishes the appointment and ceases to he seconded.

Major A. Ainslie relinquishes the appointment as second in command of the 4th. Field Regiment, New Zealand Art illery. Major M. A. Bull relinquishes the appointment of second in command of the sth. Field Regiment. New Zealand Artillery. I Major A. N. Grigg relinquishes th? appointment of second in command of the Artillery Training Regiment and is appointed second in command of I the sth. Field Regiment, vice Major ißull. I Major J. M. Mitchell is appointed ' | second in command of the 4th. Field 'Reeimeni. vic? Major Ainslee. ' Major H. W. D. Blake is appointed ' ■second in command of the 7th. Anti-! Tank Regiment, vice Lieut.-Colonel T. H. E. Oakes. Major R. W. Sharp succeeds Major ( Grigg as second in command of th? ; Artillery Traning Regiment. Lieut'. W. G. Lovie, of the 22nd. i Wellington Battalion, is appointed ■ Public Relations Officer. Second New j | Zealand Expeditionary Force, and is 'granted the temporary rank of cap-1 itain. | i Lieut.-Colonel F. Prideaux. New i i Zealand Army Pay Corps, is ap-; pointed chief paymaster and financial adviser, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Major G. H. Heal. New Zealand Corps of Signals, is appointed DeputyAssistant Adjutant-General, Head- ' quarters. Second New Zealand ExpeI ditionarv Force. I Colonel Sir Stephen S. Allen relin-: quishes the appointment, of military I secretary, Second New Zealand Expo- : ditionary Force, on proceeding to the; | United Kingdom for discharge. I Major L. F. Rudd, New Zealand ' Engineers, is appointed military secretary, Second N.Z.E.F,