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MILITARY FORCES NEW ZEALAND DIVISION APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS {By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Saturday A decision to send overseas, attached to the second New Zesland Expeditionary Forre, fully equipped general hospitals and convalescent depot staffed entirely by New Zealanders, has been made after full consultation with the Imperial authorities, said the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, in a statement todav. The step has been taken with the obtect of ensuring that New Zealand soldiers will be treated in their own hospitals by doctors and nurses from their own country. The Government felt, said Mr Jones, that this country should provide the whole of the services necessary for the comfort and wellbeing of the division it has undertaken to equip and maintain in the field. The following officers have been appointed:—
Officer Commanding Ist general hospital. Colonel A. C. McKillop. Officer Commanding Surgical Division, Lieutenant-Colonel T. D. M. Stout.
Officer Commanding Medical Division, Leiutenant-Colonel J. R. Boyd. Orthopaedic Surgeon, Major H. K. Christie; registrar, Major L. J. Hunter; ear, eye, nose and throat specialist, Major J. A. Doctor; physician, Captain A. H. Kirker; specialist in tropical diseases, Captain E. G. Sayers; as physician, Captain R. D. King; as Surgeons, Captain J. Clarke, Captain D. G. Radcliffe; radiologist, Captain G. Lynch; bacteriologist. Captain D. T. Stewart. Medical officers equivalent to house surgeons and physicians in a public hospital, Lieutenants P. T. H. Neil, W. L. Gilmour, H. M. Forman, F. B. Edmundson, A. McFarlane; quartermaster, Lieutenant P. N. R. McDonald; dental officers attached, Lieutenant N. M. Gleeson. Chaplains, Revs. M. E. Winhall (Church of England), R. T. Dodds (Presbyterian), E. Forsman (Roman Catholic). Convalescent Hospital Officer Commanding, LieutenantColonel F. M. Spencer. Second in Command, Major N. F. Boag, who will be president of tne medical board attached to the convalescent hospital; Major N. C. Speight, who will be in charge of the first division of the convalescent depot. Lieutenants C. S. Preston, J. K. F. Watson; dental officer attached. Lieutenant W. G. Middlemass.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21052, 2 March 1940, Page 6
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