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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Europe), 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 1st September, 1914 :—

HEADQUARTERS.

Commander: Major-General Sir Alexander John Godley, K.C.M.G., C.B., p.s.c., Imperial General Staff.

PERSONAL APPOINTMENTS—

Assistant Military Secretary: Major John Gethin Hughes, D.S.O., New Zealand Staff Corps.

Aide-de-camp: 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Tahu Gravenor Rhodes, Grenadier Guards (Special Reserve).

STAFF,—

General Staff Branch—
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade: Lieut.-Colonel William Garnett Braithwaite, D.S.O., p.s.c., Imperial General Staff.

Attached to General Staff: Captain Walter William Alderman, Administrative and Instructional Staff, Commonwealth Military Forces.

Adjutant-General’s Branch—
Assistant Adjutant-General: Colonel Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor, t.d., p.s.c., New Zealand Staff Corps.

Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General: Captain Nathaniel William Benjamin Butler Thoms, New Zealand Staff Corps.

Quartermaster-General’s Branch—
Assistant Quartermaster-General: Lieut.-Colonel James Jacob Esson, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General: Captain John Robert Henderson, New Zealand Staff Corps.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND DEPARTMENTS,—

Medical—
Assistant Director of Medical Services: Colonel William Johnston Will, v.d., New Zealand Medical Corps.

Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services: Lieut.-Colonel Percival Clennell Fenwick, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Veterinary—
Assistant Director of Veterinary Services: Major Alexander Reid Young, New Zealand Veterinary Corps.

Ordnance—
Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services: Honorary Captain William Thomas Beck, New Zealand Forces.

Army Pay Department—
Field Cashier: Honorary Lieutenant Thomas Lawless, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS,—

Assistant Provost-marshal and Camp Commandant: Captain Charles Henry Jeffries Brown, New Zealand Staff Corps.

Interpreter: 2nd Lieutenant Clement Marshall Cazalet, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

ATTACHED,—

Lieutenant John Anderson, New Zealand Forces Motor Reserve of Officers.

Lieutenant Dudley Kettle, New Zealand Forces Motor Reserve of Officers.

MOUNTED RIFLES.

MOUNTED RIFLES BRIGADE (WITH ATTACHED TROOPS) NOT ALLOTTED TO A CAVALRY DIVISION.

HEADQUARTERS,—

Commander: Colonel Andrew Hamilton Russell, A.D.C., Commander Wellington Mounted Rifles Brigade.

Personal Appointments—

Aide-de-Camp to Commander: 2nd Lieutenant Alan Standish Wilder, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Orderly Officer to Commander: Lieutenant Charles Arthur Beauchamp Pickard Hawkins, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Staff—

Brigade-Major: Captain Charles Guy Powles, New Zealand Staff Corps.

Staff Captain: Captain George Augustus King, New Zealand Staff Corps.

Administrative Services and Departments—

Army Pay Department—
Field Cashier: Captain Percy de Bathe Brandon, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.

Attached Army Service Corps—

Supply Details—General Duties—
Captain: Captain Norman Chivas Hamilton, Army Service Corps.

For Requisitioning Duties—
Captain or Subaltern: Captain Henry Esau Avery, New Zealand Staff Corps.

THE AUCKLAND MOUNTED RIFLE REGIMENT.

Headquarters,—

Lieut.-Colonel: Lieut.-Colonel Charles Ernest Randolph Mackesy, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Major: Major Frank Chapman, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Adjutant: Captain Ferdinand August Wood, New Zealand Staff Corps.

Signalling Officer: Lieutenant Thomas Lawrence Ranstead, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Quartermaster: Honorary Captain Harold Ward Smith, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Attached,—

Medical Officer: Captain Frederick Cameron, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Veterinary Officer: Captain Thomas Arnold Blake, New Zealand Veterinary Corps.

Machine-gun Section—

Subaltern: Lieutenant Walter Ernest Carter, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

3rd (Auckland) Squadron.

Major: Major Samuel Charles Schofield, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Captain: Captain Ralph Wyman, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Subalterns: Lieutenant John Henry Herrold, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Walter David Ruddock, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Walter Heata, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Frederick James Weir, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

4th (Waikato) Squadron.

Major: Major Alfred Tattersall, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Captain: Captain Alfred Charles Bluck, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Subalterns: Lieutenant James Henderson, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Gavin Melville Abbot, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Cornelius James, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Morris James Milliken, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

11th (North Auckland) Squadron.

Major: Major James Neil McCarroll, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Captain: Captain Charles Reginald Ernest Mackesy, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Subalterns: Lieutenant Olaf Percival Johnson, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Cameron Monteith Finlayson, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Frederick Smedley, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Preston Logan, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

First Reinforcement (left at base): Lieutenant John Mackintosh Roberts, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.