JULY 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2499

2nd Lieutenant Gerland Horton Fell.
2nd Lieutenant George Stainbury Strack.
2nd Lieutenant C. C. Brindsley to be Lieutenant. Dated 2nd March, 1916.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 1st March, 1916 :—
11/1154, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Athol Richard McIsaac.
10/2146, Sergeant Malcolm Scott Galloway.
10/2508, Company Sergeant-major William Spottiswoode Hopkirk (since killed in action).
10/766, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Robert Wood.
8/263, Company Sergeant-major William Pollock.
10/1053, Company Sergeant-major Frank Percy.
10/300, Sergeant Daniel William Curham.
11/699, Trooper Edmund Leo Malone.
10/395, Corporal J. W. Jackson to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 12th May, 1916.

Canterbury Regiment.

Major Charles Henry Jeffries Brown, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be temporary Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 26th April, 1916.

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 1st March, 1916 :—
Lieutenant John Cecil Hill.
Lieutenant Norman Francis Shepherd.
Lieutenant Owen Herbert Mead.
Lieutenant John Anderson.
Lieutenant (Adjutant) Allan Duncan Stitt.
Lieutenant Frederick Starnes.
Lieutenant Newman Robert Wilson.
Lieutenant C. C. Dailey.
Lieutenant Douglas Playfair Fraser.
Lieutenant Douglas Alexander Dron.
Lieutenant Arthur Lansdel Gray.
Lieutenant Leonard James Ford.
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Donald Dobson.
Lieutenant John McKnight.
Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Richard Rohloff.
Lieutenant John Llewellyn Charles Merton.
Lieutenant George Herbert Gray.
Lieutenant Hubert Satchell Harley.
2nd Lieutenant T. W. L. Ruthurford.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 1st March, 1916 :—
2nd Lieutenant William Michael Thom.
2nd Lieutenant Sydney Gordon Bowron.
2nd Lieutenant Jack Beaumont Le Mottes.
2nd Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Alan Wilson Duncan.
2nd Lieutenant Herbert Campbell.
2nd Lieutenant Leonard Hugh Marshall.
Honorary Lieutenant William Richard Wakelin.
2nd Lieutenant Launcelot Logan Thompson Bush.
2nd Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole.
2nd Lieutenant Launcelot Fairfax Jones.
2nd Lieutenant Ernest James Fawcett.
2nd Lieutenant Sissmore Lavie (since killed in action).
2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Struthers Williams.
2nd Lieutenant Neville Stanley Joyce (since died of wounds).

The undermentioned non-commissioned officers to be 2nd Lieutenants :—
6/509, Sergeant Herbert John Miller.
6/109, Sergeant Stanley Natusch.
6/34, Sergeant Arthur Gordon Dean.
6/935, Sergeant-major McKenzie Gibson.
6/2015, Quartermaster-Sergeant Robert Barron Witty.
6/92A, Quartermaster-Sergeant John Frederick Foord.
6/65, Sergeant Roy Percival Herman.
8/602, Sergeant John Alexander McQueen.
8/116, Acting Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Nathaniel Charles Swinard.
6/454, Company Sergeant-major Francis Clive Ramsden Upton.
6/168, Company Sergeant-major Mervyn Roy Walker.
6/308, Sergeant-major Frederick George McKee.

Otago Regiment.

Captain (temporary Major) Charles Eric Andrews, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be Major. Dated 1st March, 1916.
Captain (temporary Major) Francis Henry Lampen, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be Major. Dated 1st March, 1916.
Captain (temporary Major) Duncan Colquhoun to be Major. Dated 1st March, 1916.

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 1st March, 1916 :—
Lieutenant (Adjutant) Daniel Eric Brenner, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Lieutenant Dudley Harcourt Sheppherd Buddle.

Lieutenant William Gibson Allan Bishop.
Lieutenant Ralph Howison Nicholson.
Lieutenant Eric Buckingham Alley.
Lieutenant Allan Henry Wright.
Lieutenant Lancelot Shadwell Jennings.
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Henry Robert Ker.
Lieutenant Louis Geldart Wilson.
Lieutenant Peter Mackenzie.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 1st March, 1916 :—
2nd Lieutenant William Francis Tracey
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Milroy.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Gillman.
2nd Lieutenant John Elliott Cuthill.
2nd Lieutenant J. G. Johnston.
2nd Lieutenant McKenzie John White.
2nd Lieutenant John McPherson.
2nd Lieutenant Walter Keith Dougall.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Smith Falconer.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Fitzpatrick.
2nd Lieutenant Malcolm McPherson Watt.

The undermentioned non-commissioned officers to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 1st March, 1916 :—
8/872, Sergeant Archie Gordon Henderson.
8/121, Acting Company Sergeant-major Dominie Joseph Walls.
8/1735, Sergeant William Patrick Forde.

MACHINE-GUN UNITS.

2nd Lieutenant J. B. Parks, Essex Regiment, to be temporary Captain. Dated 1st March, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND RIFLES.

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Townshend Fulton, D.S.O., 2nd King’s Own Gurkha Rifles, to be temporary Colonel. Dated 1st March, 1916.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Harry Townshend Fulton, D.S.O., 2nd King’s Own Gurkha Rifles to be temporary Brigadier-General. Dated 1st March, 1916.

The undermentioned Majors to be Lieutenant-Colonels :—
Major William Somers Austin. Dated 1st March, 1916.
Major Jabez Alfred Cowles. Dated 21st March, 1916.
Major Charles William Melvill, New Zealand Staff Corps. Dated 23rd March, 1916.

The undermentioned Captains to be Majors. Dated 21st March, 1916 :—
Captain Harry Stuart Norton Robinson, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Captain Joseph Garrett Roache.
Captain Edward Puttick.
Captain (Quartermaster) George Ernest Simeon.
Captain Peter Harvey Bell.
Captain John McDonald Johnston.
Captain Alfred Digby-Smith.
Captain James Pow.
Captain Thomas Ralph Eastwood, Rifle Brigade, to be temporary Major. Dated 28th March, 1916.

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 21st March, 1916 :—
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) John Bishop, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Thomas Martin Wilkes, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Robert Gleadow Purdy, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Lieutenant Humphrey Holderness to be Captain and Adjutant. Dated 21st March, 1916.
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Donald Kay Strang to be Captain. Dated 1st May, 1916.
Lieutenant Bernard Russell Lankshear.
Lieutenant Herbert Henry Christophers (since killed in action).
Lieutenant John Bosley Bennett.
Lieutenant Harold Eric Barraclough.
Lieutenant Ernest Astley Harding.
Lieutenant Lindsay Merritt Inglis.
Lieutenant Paul Austin Elder.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 21st March, 1916 :—
2nd Lieutenant George Augustus Avey.
2nd Lieutenant George McLean Wilford.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Edwin Gilbert.
2nd Lieutenant James Alexander Daniel Hopkirk.
2nd Lieutenant Edward Holdsworth Buckeridge.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Penfold Castle.
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Leo McAlister. Dated 29th April, 1916.
2nd Lieutenant George Brown Macmorran. Dated 29th April, 1916.