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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78

Company Sergeant-major Charles Page Crane. Dated 26th June, 1916.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temp.), vice officers on active service:—
John Thomas Hill, vice 2nd Lieutenant Speer. Dated 6th May, 1916.
Henry De Denne, vice Lieutenant Powell. Dated 23rd June, 1916.
John Edward Hewitt, vice Lieutenant Drew. Dated 26th June, 1916.
Ralph Valentine King, vice 2nd Lieutenant Lethbridge. Dated 27th June, 1916.

The commissions granted the undermentioned are cancelled under the provisions of section 5 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909. Dated 23rd June, 1916:—
2nd Lieutenant John Philip Hally.
2nd Lieutenant John Archibald Kay.

Memorandum.
The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 103, dated 24th September, 1914, relative to the appointment of Lieutenant Dugald Macdonald Robinson to the 1st (Canterbury) Company, New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Europe), 1914, should read “Lieutenant Dugald Macdonald Robertson,” and not as therein stated.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 5th July, 1916.

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

Colonel GEORGE JOHN SMITH, Commander, Canterbury Infantry Brigade,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 10th June, 1916, entitling him thereto of twenty years and twenty days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 14th July, 1916.

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

Lieutenant ROBERT WATSON, Retired List,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 23rd March, 1903, entitling him thereto of twenty-one years and sixty-eight days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 5th July, 1916.

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

Lieutenant - Colonel CHARLES HARCOURT TURNER, 5th (Wellington) Regiment,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 9th June, 1916, entitling him thereto of twenty years and eighty-three days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 5th July, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

Honorary Lieutenant (Quartermaster) CHARLES POPE COWLEY, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles,

he having a total service to the 9th June, 1916, entitling him thereto of twenty-seven years one hundred and thirty-five days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Officers to New Zealand Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 19th July, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments of the undermentioned officers proceeding on active service, New Zealand Military Forces, with the ranks specified, with effect from 22nd July, 1916:—

Staff.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Ernest Charles Dovey, New Zealand Staff Corps, with seniority in the field as Captain from 19th January, 1914.

Mounted Rifles.

Captain Charles Leslie Soumerville, Reserve of Officers, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant Frederick Gordon Ashley Couper, late 6th Dragoon Guards.
2nd Lieutenant Percy Cooper Rose, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Le Clerc Latter, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Pilkington, Royal New Zealand Artillery, with seniority in the field as Lieutenant-Colonel from 1st October 1915.
Lieutenant Ralph Allan Brewer, Unattached List (b), General List.
Lieutenant Gilbert Howe, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Engineers.

2nd Lieutenant Kolbjorn Thorvaldson Jenssen, Unattached List (b), General List.

Infantry.

Captain Reginald Langdale Evatt, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
Captain Thomas White Sommerville, late 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Volunteers.
Lieutenant Francis Domnick Gaffaney, Reserve of Officers, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.
Lieutenant James Alexander Laing, late Dunedin Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Felix Stuart Hindmarsh Bolton, late Pahiatua Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant William Alfred Thomas, late Mangonui Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Eric Allander Harrison, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Harry Arthur Woolf, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Andrew Anderson, New Zealand Motor Service Corps.
2nd Lieutenant James Miller McQueen, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Hubert Roughton Hogg, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Patrick Davitt Healy, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Cecil Tilleard Natusch, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Ingram Milnes, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Dennis Aquilla Ivory, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Rodger Brocklehurst Davies, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Strothie Ewing, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Bertie Athol Rhodes, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant William Phillips Thompson, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Awcotte Cracroft Wilson, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant David Ferguson, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant John Fearon Hursthouse, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Llewellyn Flux, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Captain Robert Bernard Monson, M.B., B.S. (NOTE.—This officer proceeded with an earlier draft. Appointment to date from 24th June, 1916.)
Captain James Alexander Macdonell, M.D., M.S. (Aberdeen).
Captain Henry Arthur Bluett Davies, L.R.C.P. (Edin.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.).

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Venerable Archdeacon John Attwood Jacob, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class.