MILITARY FORCES

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 119, 24 April 1942, Page 3

MILITARY FORCES

Senior Officers Promoted The promotion of a number of senior officers of the New . Zealand Military Forces was announced in the Gazette last night, the rank in each case being temporary while holding the appointment indicated. Lieut.-Colonel V. G. Jervis, deputy adjutant-general, Army headquarters; be comes a colonel. On graduation from the Royal Australian Military College, Dun troon, in August, 1914, he was posted to the Ist N.Z.E.F. In 1910 in France he was severely wounded and lost a leg. In 1925 he was appointed to the General Staff, Army Headquarters, and early in 1940 was given his present appointment. During the temporary absence of Brigadier A. E. Conway from New Zealand last year Qolonel Jervis was acting adju-tant-general. Colonel Jervis's duties in the future will be mainly in connexion with organization. Lieut.-Colonel R. H. Quilliam relinquishes his appointment as director of mobilization, Army Headquarters, and becomes deputy adjutant-general (personal services), with the rank of colonel, and immediate deputy to the adjutantgeneral. He saw service in the last war, and succeeded Brigadier (then Lieut.Colonel) Conway as director of mobilization in 1940. The new director of mobilization is to be Major R. A. Hogan, who is granted the rank of lieut.-colonel. He was for-

merly assistant to the director of mobi lization.

Lieut.-Colonel C. ■W. Salmon, D.C.M.. who is promoted colonel, has been 1 deputy quartermaster-general, Army Headquarters, for the past two years. He was first commissioned from the ranks when serving with the Ist N.Z.E.F. in France in 1915.

Three lieutenant-colonels, who were appointed the officers in charge of administration in the three military districts a year ago consequent on the big increase in staff work resulting from rapid expansion of the military forces, have been given the' rank of full colonel. They are: Lieut.-Colonel H. C. Glendining, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C. (Northern Military District), Lieut.-Colonel H. M. Foster, N.Z.S.C. (Central), and Lieut.-Colonel K J. Walker (Southern).

Major G. M. McCaskill, who is pro moted lieutenant-colonel and appointed assistant adjutant-general, Army Headquarters, graduated from the Royal Australian Military College, Duntroon, in 1921. He went overseas with the 2nd N.Z.E.F in 1940, returned to New Zealand last year, and was posted to Army Headquarters staff. Major J. N. Henry, N.Z.S.C., who succeeded Lieut.-Colonel Sugden as acting commandant of the Army School of Instruction, has been appointed commandant of the school with promotion to lieutenant-colonel. He served throughout the last war as a senior n.c.0., and has since held commissioned rank in the New Zealand Staff Corps for 16 years.