✨ Military Examination Campaigns
APRIL 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1191
Commissions in the British Army.
Defence Office, Wellington, 3rd April, 1907.
REFERRING to the despatch of the 23rd August, 1906, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 89, of the 25th October, 1906, the following despatch, dated the 30th January, 1907, and enclosure, is published for general information.
ROBERT McNAB,
Acting Minister of Defence.
(New Zealand.—Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 30th January, 1907.
MY LORD,—With reference to my despatch “General” of the 23rd of August last, I have the honour to transmit to you copies of a table showing the special periods of Military History selected for the examination of Officers for promotion in the Army.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
Governor the Right Honourable Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., &c.
MILITARY HISTORY.
Special Campaigns, &c., selected for Army Examinations.
| Examinations. | Date. | Special Campaigns, &c. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captains and Lieutenants of the Regular Forces for Promotion. (Alternative papers are set. Officers attending for the first time are advised to take up the new campaign. Those who fail may then take up the same campaign again at the following examination.) See King's Regulations, Appendix VII. | May, 1907 | First Paper:— General Questions on the Peninsula Campaign, from March, 1811, to the end of October, 1813. Second Paper:— Special Campaign—Vittoria, 1813, from May to the end of June, 1813. | Was also set in November, 1906. |
| First Paper:— General Questions on the Campaign in the Peninsula and the South of France, from the middle of May, 1813, to the end of the War. Second Paper:— The Campaign in the Peninsula and the South of France, from 12th July, 1813 (the day Marshal Soult took over command from King Joseph), till the end of the War. | Campaign set for the first time. | ||
| November, 1907 | First Paper:— General Questions on the Campaign in the Peninsula and the South of France, from the middle of May, 1813, to the end of the War. Second Paper:— The Campaign in the Peninsula and the South of France, from 12th July, 1813 (the day Marshal Soult took over command from King Joseph), till the end of the War. | Was also set in May, 1907. | |
| Both Papers will be set on the Waterloo Campaign. | Campaign set for the first time. | ||
| May, 1908 | Both Papers will be set on the Waterloo Campaign. | Was also set in November, 1907. | |
| The Campaign to be set for the first time will be announced in Army Orders of July, 1907. | |||
| Admission to the Staff College. | August, 1907 | First Paper:— As laid down in the Staff College Regulations, 1905, page 6, with special reference to the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt. Second Paper:— Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland, 1806–1807, from the beginning of December, 1806, to the signing of the Armistice on the 21st June, 1807. |
- No detailed questions will be set with reference to the action of the Spanish and Portuguese armies, and no question of any kind will be set with reference to these armies when their action had no bearing on that of the British troops.
WAR OFFICE, S.W., January, 1907.
[D. 07/990.]
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- Robert McNab, Acting Minister of Defence
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