SEPT. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3633

New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Samoa), 1914.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments of officers to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (1914), with the ranks set against their respective names, and, in cases in which an officer holds in his permanent unit of the Territorial Force a rank different from the rank here set against his name, to approve that he shall hold such latter rank temporarily during the period of his employment with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (1914), and with effect from 5th August, 1914 :—

HEADQUARTERS.

Commander: Colonel Robert Logan, A.D.C., New Zealand Staff Corps.

PERSONAL APPOINTMENTS—

Aide-de-camp to Commander: Captain Thomas Ralph Eastwood, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own).

Orderly Officer to Commander: Lieutenant William Henry Dillon Bell, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

STAFF—

General Staff Officer: Major William Richard Pinwill, Imperial General Staff.

Assistant Quartermaster-General: Captain Hubert Havard Wright, Army Service Corps.

Field Cashier: 2nd Lieutenant Philip Vernon Hackworth, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Assistant Provost Marshal: Captain Arthur Loftus Tottenham, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

NEW ZEALAND FIELD ARTILLERY.

“D” BATTERY, NEW ZEALAND FIELD ARTILLERY.

Captain Robert Stirrat McQuarrie, New Zealand Field Artillery.

Lieutenant Frederick William Reed, New Zealand Field Artillery.

Lieutenant Gordon Harris Forsythe, New Zealand Field Artillery.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Newey Mitchell, New Zealand Field Artillery.

ENGINEERS.

ONE SECTION NO. 4 FIELD COMPANY ENGINEERS.

Captain David John Gibbs, New Zealand Engineers.

Captain Alexander Alan McNab, New Zealand Engineers.

ONE SECTION SIGNAL COMPANY.

Lieutenant Henry Cumberland Cotton, New Zealand Engineers.

INFANTRY.

HALF BATTALION 5TH (WELLINGTON) REGIMENT.

Commander: Lieut.-Colonel Charles Harcourt Turner, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

2nd in Command: Major Bernard Head, 5th (Flintshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Adjutant: Captain Redmond Neill, Reserve of Officers, Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers).

Quartermaster: 2nd Lieutenant John Bosley Bennett, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Machine-gun Officers: Captain Roger William Wilkinson, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Captain George Ernest Simeon, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Majors Commanding Companies: Major Rawdon St. John Beere, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Major Jabez Alfred Cowles, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Captains (2nd in command) :—

Captain Joseph Garrett Roache, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Captain Reginald Langdale Evatt, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Platoon Commanders :—

Captain Edward Puttick, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Lieutenant Charles Kimbell Gasquoine, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Lieutenant John Richmond Cowles, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Lieutenant David Alexander Kenny, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Lieutenant Bernard Russell Lankshear, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Leonard Maughan Liardet, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Platoon Commanders—continued.

2nd Lieutenant Herman Frederick Augustus Wolferman, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Ernest Grenville Edwards, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

COMPOSITE HALF BATTALION.

Commander: Lieut.-Colonel Harry Townsend Fulton, D.S.O., 2nd King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles).

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY (CORPS OF NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS) COMPANY.

Captain: Captain Percy St. John Keenan, New Zealand Engineers.

Subalterns: Lieutenant Martyn Lucy, New Zealand Engineers.

Lieutenant Herbert Henry Christophers, New Zealand Engineers.

Lieutenant William John Pritchard Guinness, New Zealand Engineers.

Lieutenant James Short, New Zealand Engineers.

3RD (AUCKLAND) (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY’S OWN) COMPANY.

Major: Major William Kay, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Captain: Captain James Blackwood Neely, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Subalterns: Lieutenant Alfred James Powley, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

2nd Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

2nd Lieutenant William Alfred Bowring, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

2nd Lieutenant Alan Innes Walker, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

DETACHMENT ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

2nd Lieutenant John Christopher Holland, New Zealand Army Service Corps.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.

SECTION FIELD AMBULANCE.

Major Matthew Holmes, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Captain Alexander Cameron McKillop, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Captain Thomas Duncan McGregor Stout, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Captain Kenneth Edwin Tapper, New Zealand Medical Corps.

OFFICERS OF NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS EMPLOYED AS DENTAL SURGEONS.

Lieutenant Wilfred Urwin Ward, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Lieutenant David Nathan Isaacs, New Zealand Medical Corps.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE RESERVE.

Sister Wilson, New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve.

Sister Brooks, New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve.

Sister Brandon, New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve.

Sister Nurse, New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve.

Sister McLean, New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve.

Sister McNea, New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve.

NEW ZEALAND CHAPLAINS’ DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend William Stanley Bean, Chaplain to the Forces (2nd Class).

The Reverend Edward Elliott Malden, Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

The Reverend Thomas Bernard Segrief, Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.