SECOND ECHELON

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 48, 8 November 1940, Page 4

SECOND ECHELON

N.C.O.’s Selected To Train For Commissions

(From the Official War Correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces in Great Britain.) '

SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN, Sept. 27. Practically all the 38 non-commis-

sioned officers of the second echelon recently selected for training for commissions have now been posted to officer cadet training units. The first draft of infantry men not only was sent to Sandhurst, where the famous Royal Military College is now - functioning as an 0.C.T.U., but also was posted in a block to the Brigade of Guards Company there. No higher honour could be . paid a candidate for commissioned rank ; and the opportunities given artillery and cavalry are equally good. The full list of New Zealand candidates, whether already posted for training or awaiting posting, with their arm of the service, is as follows: Infantry.— T. Hyde, Sgt. D. Morgan, Sgt. J. D. Ormond, Sgt. W. A. Whitlock, Sgt. J. S. Harper, Sgt. H. S. Sandford, Sgt. V. D. Philips, Sgt. K. A. V. Cross, W.0.2. A. W. Moodie, C.S.M. J. Tuhiwai, Sgt. M. R. Pene, L/Cpl. W. N. Brewer, L/Sgt. E. A. Shand, Sgt. G. W. Greensmith, Sgt. E. J. Waters. C.S.M. F. R. Logan, C.S.M. J. W. C. Craig, Cpl. P. H. Toka,- Sgt. C. T. Mason, Sgt. W. F. N. Gardner, L/Sgt. H. G. Rose, Sgt. R. C. B. Finlayson. 1 Cavalry—L/Sgt. C. W. Trafford. Cpl. J. R.- McKenzie.

Artillery.—T.S.M.'B. G Gapes, L/Sgt. J. E. Fagan, Sgt. J. Danks, L/Sgt. G. L. Ryan, L/Sgt. M. A. P. Williams, Sgt. E. Tice-Martin, Bdr. E. Butcher, R.Q.M.S. R. R. W. Mcßride, L/Bdr. J. E. Jardine, Sgt. C. C. McDonald, L/Sgt. P. E. Simin, Bdr. J. C. Store, Sgt. A. A. Roxburgh, L/Bdr. A. JEdwards.