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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 6

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MOUNTED RIFLES INTENSIVE TRAINING PLAN 85 MEN ENCAMP ON FRIDAY Mounted rifles units will embark upon the intensified training for the territorial home defence plan on Friday when prospective officers and non-commissioned officers will encamp for two months under canvas. At the completion of the second month's training the men will return to civilian life until the beginning of January, when they will return to camp for a period of three months’ intensive training with the men of the units. The Waikato Mounted Rifles officers and non-commissioned officers will enter camp at Hopu Hopu on Friday. Eighty-nve men from the regiment, many of whom are already officers or non-commissioned officers, will enter camp under the command of Colonel K. B. Tennant, M.M. Captain A. T. Reid, who was recently appointed adjutant of the Waikato Mounted Rifles, replacing Major W. H. Allen, area officer No. 4 (Hamilton) military area, will arrive in Hamilton tomorrow and will encamp with the unit on Friday as its adjutant. The following are the men for camp: Captains: E. McGregor, M. Aldred, W. Buttimore and S. Wright. Lieutenants: M. Henry, L. L. Orr, 11. X. Wadding-toil and quarter-Master Lieutenant E. A. McKay. Second-Lieutenants: D. C. Carr, A. J. Coster, S. 11. Haycock, A. Laing and J. B. Whyte. Squadron Sergeant-Majors: L. 11. Breginan, W. Cuthbertson and G. L. W. Smith. Squadron quarter-. Master Sergeants: H. A. Brown, J. I. S. Gearon, K. L. Macky. Sergeants: w. A. Bridgman, C. L. Gibbon, W. E. O’Reilly, a. M. Symondson and Farrier-Sergeant W. J. Dye. Acting-sergeants: C. H. E. Cross, T. O’Meara and G. H. Whyte. Corporals: G. Muir, V. C. Graham, A. Summers and W. Trengruve. Lance-Corporals: J. N. Birkett, D. G. Buchanan, J. C. Clough, A. Francis, P. L. Hill. C. E. G. Lawes, J. D. Lorimer, A. L. Nicholl, Y. 11. Matsey, R. McKinney, T. A. Murphy, P. Peterson, W. O. G. Trubshaw, F. C. Wood, A. K. Woodmass and C. E. Woodward.

Troopers: C. J. Allan, E. F. Allan, D. J. Annadale, A. R. Asplin, H. N. Bethell, P. K. Bishop. I). C. Brown, I. T. Campbell, K, C. Clough, G. A. Conrad, K. F. Day, J. I. Delaney, L. Goodwin, R. W. Gordon. 11. Greenhalgh, K. V. J. Holmes, K. E. Kellancl. It. It. Knight, D. S. Livingstone, R. o. Marx, T. Maxwell, E. A. Morrison, J. M. Morrison, N. Morrow, E. MoMurray, A. H. Men ride, D. P. McGuire, .1. D. Mcllraith, J. W. Rivers, W. I). Itosevear, T. 11. Boss. M. L. Ru-ssell, K. G. Scholium, R. S. Searle, a. R. Seymour, A. j. Tims and W. Waterhouse. The following are warned for camp duties with the above course: Troopers C. X. Middlemiss, C. W. RossSmith, A. J. Smith. D. Hank-5, P. Black, A. Miller and S. D. Bacon. MAN FOR CAMP SPECIAL RAILWAY UNIT One man from the No. 4 (Hamilton) military area was despatched to camp yesterday to fill a vacancy which has occurred in the Railway Company, one of the special units of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force which is in training at Hopu Hopu. He is C. A. Rodger. BACK FROM LEAVE SOLDIERS IN CAMP SCENES OF FAREWELL Completing ten days’ leave, soldiers of the third echelon .of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force have been returning to camp during the past two days. Scenes of farewell at the railway stations have been a common sight this week as trains have left crowded with troops. Special trains were run to carry troops back to camp, but a large number of men travelled on ordinary express trains, with the result that the stations have been crowded with civilians farewelling soldiers. Nearly all the men had been given some farewell party at home, but the last minute leave-taking at the station appeared to be the most important of all. Soldiers who had crowds of their friends to farewell them experienced an animated send-off. Many of the soldiers returned to camp at Hopu Hopu and Papakura on Monday night, others yesterday, and by tonight all men on leave will be back in camp with the exception of a very few. Two special trains left Auckland on Monday night conveying troops to Trentham and Burnham. Many Waikato soldiers joined the train at Frank ton Junction. These leave-takings were tinged with a little sadness in many cases as the men embarked upon a longer journey, knowing that sufficient leave to enable them to travel north might not come again in the near future at any rate.