STAFF CHANGES

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 26, 7 June 1940, Page 4

STAFF CHANGES

’’ ’ 2- —' Army Headquarters INCREASE IN WORK Several changes in the General Staff/ Army Headquarters, are announced. They have been made, according to General J. E. Duigan, C. 8., D. 5.0., to'cope with the great increase in work in the branch of the General Staff since the outbreak of war, particularly in connexion with the training of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, perfecting plans for the defence of the Dominion, and carrying into effect the Government’s recent decision to institute intensive training of the Territorial Force and the National Military Reserve. Lieut.-Colonel A. E. Conway, N.Z.

Staff Corps, who has been Director of Mobilization, has relinquished that post to take up the appointment of Director of Military Training. Lieut. Colonel L. G. Goss, P.S.C., N.Z. Staff Corps, has vacated the appointment of General Staff Officer Ist Grade to be-, come Personal Assistant to MajorGeneral Duigan, Chief of the General Staff and First Military Member of the Army Bourd. Lieut.-Colonel J. R. V. Sherston, D. 5.0., M.C., P.S.C., N.Z. Temp. Staff, becomes General Staff Officer Ist Grade.

Director .of Military Training, served with the Ist Canterbury Battalion during the Great War. He joined the N.Z. Staff Corps after the war.

The appointment of personal assistant ‘to the Chief of the General Staff is new in New Zealand. Lieut.Colonel Goss is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Australia. He served with the Ist. Battalion,' Web lington Regiment, in France and Belgium in the last war. In 1930 he graduated at the Staff College, Camberley.

At the outbreak of war Lieut.Colonel Sherston was farming iii Hawke’s Bay. Previously, he had served for 19 years in the Regular Army in India and England. He accompanied the 4th Hussars to France at the outbreak, of the last war and served with them during the retreat from Mons and. till the first gas attack at Ypres. Subsequently he held a number' of staff appointments during the war. and in 1929 was brigade major, Ist Cavalry Brigade in India and served in that capacity throughout the operations in Afghanistan. He was then nominated to attend;the Staff College, Camberley, where he graduated, and then held staff appointments in England, till he came to New Zealand in 1926. Major R. FI. Quilliam, N.Z. Temporary Staff, has been promoted Lieut. Colonel and appointed to succeed Lieut.-Colonel Conway as Director of Mobilization. Lieut.-Colonel Quilliam volunteered for service soon after the war broke out and joined the Mobilization -Directorate at Army Headquar ters in November. He served in the 2nd Battalion, Wellington Regiment, in the . Great War. Before taking up duty at Army Headquarters, Lieut.Colonel Quilliam was Crown Prose cutdr and senior partner in the firm of Govett Quilliam, Hutchen, and Macallan, barristers and solicitors. New Plymouth, and chairman of the Taranaki Territorial Regimental Association.