CADET OFFICERS

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 40, 13 September 1940, Page 3

CADET OFFICERS

TRAINING AT TRENTHAM. Northern District List Selected by Army District Headquarters as members of the sth Officer Cadets Training Unit r 76 non-commis-sioned officers and men who had a - ready started training with Exped.tionary Force units, left recently for the army school of instruction, Trentham, where they will begin the course preceding examination for commissions. The list includes Gunner I . G. Vivian, well known cricketer, and Sergeant R. G. Bush, former A.l Black.

The following officers also left fc r a course at Trentham: — Divisional Cavalry; Lieutenant A. Morrison., Second-Lieutenant D. A. Hardwick. Artillery: Lieutenant B. G. W. Green, Lieutenant D. R. Hume, Second-Lieu-tenant D. M. Hooper. Infantry: Caitain A. G. J. Robertson, Lieutenant F. 0. Burtt, Second-Lieutenant C. L. Burton, Second-Lieutenant M. C. Astley. The non-commissioned officers attending the Officer Cadets Training Unit with a view to being commissioned are: Artillery.—Sergeant G. D. D. Gray, 6th Field Regiment; Gunners F. G. McKechnie, J. H. Eccleton, S. Wolfenden, W. A. S. Armour, R. Q. Short,]

H. D. Slyfield, G. J. De Auvergne, N. C. Pilcher, A. F. Martin, D. E. Coutts, A. S. Jamieson, R. A. Johnstone, H. G. Vivian, G. R. Chance, D. L. Holt, J. McL. Stafford, K. W. Paterson, M. M. Robertson, G. K. Grocott, R. M. Smith, G. E. L. Dillon, K. M. W. McDonald, I. G. Scott, P. K. Wilson, and R. D. McKechnie, all of the Artillery Training Regiment. Infantry.—Sergeant T. M. Logie, 24th (Auckland) Battalion; Sergeant S. A. Naismith, Sergeant G. G. Olsen, Lance-Corporal A. W. Boyce, all of the Ist Infantry Training Battalion; Private A. J. Trubshaw, 24th (Auckland) Battalion; Private B. C. D. Rawson, Corporal N. M. Conder, Corporal H. F. G. Ready, both of the Ist Infantry Training Battalion ; Private J. W. McCowan, 24th (Auckland) Battalion; Corporal C. N. James, Privates H. D. Gilfillan, F. C. Aicken, T. K. Buckingham, all of the Ist Infantry Training Battalion; Privates W. M. D. Bremner, W. E. Street, H. G. Cutler, Corporal F. J. Bradley, all of the 24th _ (Auckland) Battalion; Privates R. C. Seavill, C. D. Bryant, H. M. Kirk ,all of the Ist Infantry Training Battalion; Private J. B. Dow, 24th (Auckland) Battalion. ©.

Private D. C. Ker, Sergeant E. Proctor, Ist Infantry Training Battalion; Privates R. A. Shaw, W. S. Banks, D. G. Brash, L. J. Kirk, J. Graham, T. V. Mitchell, R. L. Pratt, A. G. Steele, A. G. Pryde, T. A. Hawke, Corporal A. B. Bullen, all of the 24th (Auckland) Battalion; Privates N. L. McDonald, R. E. Horrocks, Sergeants R. G. Bush, A. Stark, Corporal F. M. Batersby, all of the Ist Infantry Battalion. Maori Battalion. — Sergeant R. C. Allen, Ist Infantry Training Battalion.

GOOD OLD SERGEANT-MAJOR. They were burying the sergeantmajor. And sitting in church at the funeral service the men were listening to the chaplain’s address. As the virtues of the dead rolled off the chaplain’s lips, the “Bad Lad” of the crowd became . more and more amazed. When the chaplain referred to the deceased’s “lovable qualities,” he could stand it no longer. > ' He rose in his place, and after a cough to attract the chaplain’s attention, asked:— “Excuse me, sir, BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU’VE GOT THE RIGHT CORPSE?”