MILITARY FORCES

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 44, 11 October 1940, Page 5

MILITARY FORCES

Army Promotions And

Transfers

The following appointments, promotions and transfers of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces are announced in the Gazette :—

New Zealand Temporary Staff: Captain C. 11. T. Skelley, Retired List, to be Captain, and is appointed second in com mand. No. 3 Training Unit, Mobilization Camp, Trentham; Leslie Neil Mcllroy, to be Lieutenant, N.Z. Dental Corps, and is-appointed Dental Officer, Mobilization Camp, Trentham ; Captain W. A. Breach, granted the temporary rank of , Major, while carrying out the duties of Assistant Quartermaster-General, Central Military District; Lieutenant A. G. Melies, M,(\, N.Z. Dental Corps, to be Lieutenant, and is appointed Dental ■ Officer, Mobilization Camp, Trentham. The Manawatu Mounted Rifles: The undermentioned Lieutenants are granted the temporary rank of Captain : A. B. Abel, A. AV. Hudson, S. I. A. Clifford. Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles: Lieutenant (temp.)' M. J. O’Brien. D.C.M., to be Captain (temp.). New Zealand Artillery: Captain Everard Anchitel Anson (Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Regiment of Royal Artillery). to be Captain (temp.), and is

posted to the 10th Heavy Regiment (11th Battery). Wellington West Coast Regiment: The undermentioned Captains (temp.), Ist Battalion, to be Majors (temp.) : H. Johnston,- M.C., V.D.; C. O. Pratt. M.C.; S. E. Gilshnan, M.M.; Lieutenant J. Coley, Ist Battalion, granted the temporary rank of Captain. The undermentioned Lieutenants (temp.), Ist Battalion, to be Captains (temp.) 2 C. B. Lewis, J. M. Russell. Lieutenant and Quartermaster R. P. U. Parnell, Ist Battalion, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temp.); 2nd Lieutenant (temp.) F. P. Fawcett, Ist Battalion, granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant; Alexander Stewart Ramsay to *be Bandmaster, Ist Battalion and is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant; William Reindler, to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.), and is posted io the Ist Cadet Battalion.

Taranaki Regiment: 2nd Lieutenant T. T. Murray, M.C., M.M., Ist Battalion, to be Lieutenant (temp. Captain) ; John Herbert Boon to be Quartermaster, Ist Battalion, and is granted the- honorary rank of Lieutenant; Donald Newton Brewer to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.) and is posted to the Ist Battalion. Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment: Captain W. R. P. Jaques, Ist Battalion, granted the temporary rank of Major. New Zealand Medical Corps: Lieuten-ant-Colonel J. H. G. Robertson, C.8.E.. V.D.. M. 8., Ch.~8., F.R.C.S., Edin., Retired List, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Central Military District (unattached) ; Captain A. A. Macdonald, M. 8., Ch B . F.R.C.S., Edin., Ist Field Ambulance, Jo be Major; Stewart White Crawford, M.D., Ch.B., to be Captain (temp.), Central Military District, and is seconded for duty with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The undermentioned to be Lieutenants and are posted to the 2nd Field Ambulance: Charles Patrick Mar-

shall Feltham. M. 8., Ch.B.; Desmond John Andrew,Doyle, M. 8., Ch B. New Zealand Dental Corps : . Captain A. G. Melies, M.C., from the Reserve of Officers, The Hawke’s' Bay Regiment, to be Lieutenant, Central Military District (unattached).