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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, and Transfers of New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force Officers.

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Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th September, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, resignations, and transfers of the undermentioned New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force Officers :—

New Zealand Staff Corps.

Captain Richard John Spotswood Seddon is restored to the establishment. Dated 26th August, 1913.

Command.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Augustus Grace to command a New Zealand Field Artillery Brigade. Dated 27th January, 1913.

Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the Reserve of Officers :—

Lieutenant-Colonel William James Davis. Dated 11th August, 1913.

Captain James McGregor Elmslie. Dated 1st August, 1913.

Lieutenant Albert Glanville William Muir. Dated 17th July, 1913.

Captain John Stevenson resigns his commission. Dated 14th April, 1913.

4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Patrick Keegan resigns his commission. Dated 18th April, 1913.

5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).

2nd Lieutenant John McLean resigns his commission. Dated 3rd July, 1913.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation) :—

Sergeant-major Edgar Thomson Shand. Dated 8th July, 1913.

Corporal John Lindsay Lethbridge. Dated 11th July, 1913.

7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Seymour Cox resigns his commission. Dated 7th August, 1913.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Major Charles Hellier Davis Evans is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 18th July, 1913.

10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

Ronald Alister Forsyth, vice Prichard, retired. Dated 13th March, 1913.

Edward Andamus Maude, vice Freeth, transferred to Reserve of Officers. Dated 1st May, 1913.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.

Captain Arthur Henry Hollis to be Major. Dated 1st July, 1913.

2nd Lieutenant Robert Wakelin Dunn to be Lieutenant. Dated 3rd July, 1913.

2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.

Lieutenant Percy Louis Orr to be Captain, vice Boys, resigned. Dated 18th February, 1913.

5th (Wellington) Regiment.

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the 9th (Wellington East Coast) Regiment, with their present seniority. Dated 21st August, 1913 :—

Major Fleming Ross.

Captain Thomas William Slinn.

Lieutenant Bernard Russell Lankshear.

2nd Lieutenant Octavius Ralph Featherston Johnston resigns his commission. Dated 1st November, 1912.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Regiment.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the 5th (Wellington) Regiment. Dated 21st August, 1913 :—

Major Fleming Ross.

Captain Thomas William Slinn.

Lieutenant Bernard Russell Lankshear.

13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.

Lieutenant Andrew Parkhill is transferred to the Unattached List (b), for service with the Senior Cadets. Dated 27th August, 1913.

15th (North Auckland) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Arnold Cecil Wallace resigns his commission. Dated 15th August, 1913.

Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant Arthur Louis Winter resigns his commission. Dated 13th May, 1913.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Major Tracy Russell Inglis to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 16th September, 1913.

Major James Fitzgerald, from the Reserve of Officers, to be Major. Dated 29th August, 1913.

Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant Peter Francis Finlayson is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 3rd September, 1913.

Charles Treweeke Hand Newton, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), to be Lieutenant. Dated 27th August, 1913.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Reverend George Benjamin Stephenson to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated 25th August, 1913.

The Reverend Alfred Laishley, Chaplain, 4th Class, resigns his commission. Dated 22nd August, 1913.

New Zealand Branch of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service.

Miss Hester Maclean to be Matron-in-Chief. Dated 7th August, 1913.

Unattached List (a).

Captain Charles Henry McKay, from the Unattached List (b), to be Captain. Dated 11th August, 1913.

Unattached List (b).

(Senior Cadets.)

Captain Charles Henry McKay is transferred to the Unattached List (a). Dated 11th August, 1913.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

Norman Annabell. Dated 1st July, 1913.

d’Auvergne Stanley Leigh Grut. Dated 29th July, 1913.

Lieutenant Andrew Parkhill, from the 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority next below Lieutenant d’Auvergne Stanley Leigh Grut. Dated 27th August, 1913.

Bombardier Cyril Laughton Crump to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 22nd April, 1913.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants resign their commissions :—

Reginald Frederick Parsons. Dated 24th July, 1913.

Herbert John Moore. Dated 27th August, 1913.

Captain Ernest Frank Purdon is dismissed from the Defence Forces, under section 5 (a), Part I, of the Defence Act, 1909, for absence without leave. Dated 16th September, 1913.

New Zealand Forces Motor Reserve of Officers.

Lieutenant Charles Rutherford Orr Walker resigns his commission. Dated 27th August, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

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Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th September, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to

Quartermaster (Honorary Lieutenant) ALEXANDER FERGUSON, 8th (Southland) Regiment,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 28th August, 1913, entitling him thereto of twenty years and forty-five days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.