✨ Military Promotions and Appointments
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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AS AIR NAVIGATORS
Dated 2nd June, 1943-
NZ 401456 Warrant Officer William BUSBY.
Dated 4th September, 1943-
NZ 42306 Flight Sergeant Albert PRENTER.
AS AIR BOMBER
Dated 20th September, 1943-
NZ 411361 Flight Sergeant William James Henry BERRIMAN.
Promotions
The undermentioned Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants
(temp.):
Dated 16th August, 1943 : James Ronald STEER.
Dated 15th September, 1943-
John Russell KAY. John Raynor McCLYMONT.
William Robert DUNCAN. John Marshall STEVENSON.
Ernest Henry D'ATH-WESTON.
Dated 20th September, 1943 : Ronald David MILLAR, D.F.M.
Dated 25th September, 1943-
Kenneth Frederick SAUNDERS. Kenneth Leslie LEE.
Dated 29th September, 1943-
Colin Ward Dawson HUNT. Keith Allan NEILSON.
The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp) :-
Dated 7th July, 1943 : Arnold Haigh LAMB.
Dated 11th July, 1943 : Thomas Chaplin HILLS.
Dated 22nd July, 1943-
Ralf BRATTON. Ronald Henry FOSTER.
Dated 23rd July, 1943 : James Sutton PRENTICE.
Dated 6th August, 1943-
Winston Leonard BAYLISS. Robert Sinclair THOMSON.
Dated 15th August, 1943 : Ronald Ernest PRIEST.
Dated 19th August, 1943 : Eliott Bruce MAXWELL.
Dated 27th August, 1943 : Colin Ernest PAPPS.
Dated 5th September, 1943-
John COSSINS. Arthur Ian Ross.
Jack Stewart THOMSON. Ivan Johnston SHEARER.
Ronald John ADAMS. Thomas Hugh Ian FLEMING.
Keith Alexander GALLOWAY. Frank Percival AGLAM.
Frederick James PARKER. Arthur Stanhope ALDRICH.
James Harding ROBB. Garth Murray HESSELL.
Leopold William NEALE. Thomas Michael FENTON.
Stanley Henry MACKENZIE. Ian Melville GRANT.
John Henry SIMMONDS. Simon PHILLIPS.
Murray Charles FEARN. Douglas Justus REID.
Malcolm Ford CULLEN.
Dated 6th September, 1943 : Ian Campbell BENNINGTON.
Dated 7th September, 1943-
Murray David MUGGERIDGE, D.F.M.
Dated 12th September, 1943 : Allen Fisher LISSETTE.
Dated 13th September, 1943 : Ian Connon McCoLL.
Dated 14th September, 1943 : Neil McAllister KNOX.
Dated 15th September, 1943 : John Charles Kennedy FABIAN.
Dated 16th September, 1943 : Michael Acton SULLIVAN, D.F.C.
Dated 17th September, 1943-
Joseph Edward Arthur HOWAT. Norman Lee BURTON.
Ivan William HALL.
Dated 18th September, 1943-
Robert William FORBES. Herbert John DRAWBRIDGE.
Dated 19th September, 1943-
Roy Ehrlich FORBES.
Alan William WILSON.
Joseph Norman CLARK.
Thomas Leslie Milton PORTEOUS.
Malcolm Douglas Beresford GRAHAM.
Mervyn Gillard HUTCHINSON.
Hugh Somerset TUCKER.
Gordon Henry MEAGHER.
John Arthur HOULTON.
Dated 20th September, 1943 : Joseph BETTLE.
Dated 21st September, 1943-
Philip Samuel Garth THORNTON.
Grant Alan RUSSELL.
Dated 23rd September, 1943-
Russell James NOONAN, D.F.M.
Corran Perry ASHWORTH.
EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I
Appointments
The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the
rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 9th September, 1943:-
As Equipment and Transport Officers-
NZ 1939 John Barrington SMYTHE.
NZ 431572 A.C. 1 William Fraser EDMOND.
NZ 1940 Robert Button SEABROOK.
NZ 429843 Acting Corporal William Gordon TULLOCH.
Transfer
Flight Lieutenant Ernest Edwin PITTOCK is transferred to the
Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class A, Section II. Dated 10th
October, 1943.
EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II
Appointments
The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions (as
Engineer Officers) in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 9th Sep-
tember, 1943 :
NZ 39451 Warrant Officer Arthur HAMILTON.
NZ 35171 Warrant Officer Cyril Broad THORPE.
NZ 36165 Warrant Officer Jack MACKERSY.
NZ 34143 Warrant Officer Victor HJORRING.
The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the
rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 9th September, 1943.
As Engineer Officers-
NZ 539069 Flight Sergeant Robert Scott Low.
NZ 36123 Warrant Officer James Dermot HURLEY.
NZ 391606 Flight Sergeant John Philip ATKINSON.
NZ 437015 Flight Sergeant Raymond William HARLAND.
NZ 38145 Warrant Officer Gerard Keith COTTERILL.
NZ 391506 Flight Sergeant Bernard Arthur BARROW.
As Signal and Radar Officers-
NZ 42935 Sergeant Derek Aylmer LESLIE.
NZ 1941 Ernest David Lindsay MARSDEN.
NZ 391712 Sergeant John Charles RENOUF.
NZ 416611 Corporal Joseph Allan LEE.
NZ 412590 L.A.C. Christian Stewart LANGE is granted a tem-
porary commission (as Electrical Engineer) in the rank of Pilot
Officer (on prob.). Dated 23rd September, 1943.
Promotions
The undermentioned Pilot Officers (on prob.) are confirmed in
their rank and are granted the temporary rank of Flying Officer :-
Dated 18th August, 1943 : Ian Birrell SLY.
Dated 18th September, 1943 : Roland Emerson HARVEY.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH
Appointments
The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the
ranks shown. Dated 9th September, 1943 :-
As Flying Officer-
NZ 40708 Warrant Officer John Anderson DALE.
As Pilot Officers-
NZ 431340 A.C.2 Sydney Faber FOOKES.
NZ 426940 Flight Sergeant John Henry TIZARD.
NZ 432723 A.C. 2 Clement Walter NASH.
NZ 43081 A.C. 1 Fredrick Neil ANDERSON.
NZ 40659 Flight Sergeant Edward Russell ORR.
NZ 401739 Sergeant James JONES.
NZ 431521 A.C. 1 William GEE TAYLOR.
NZ 40264 Sergeant James McGuffie COSTLEY.
NZ 4216406 A.C. 1 Richard Edward TRIPE.
NZ 431868 A.C. 1 John Nigel WILSON.
NZ 4211010 A.C. 2 Clement Travers CAVE.
NZ 401638 Sergeant Kenneth Eric MANDER.
NZ 431522 A.C. 1 Ralph Kraeft TRIMMER.
NZ 401549 Corporal John Henry RABONE.
NZ 437047 Flight Sergeant Carne George STRATFORD.
NZ 431511 A.C. 2 Walter Harry BICKLEY.
NZ 431509 A.C. 1 Kenneth Howard BAYLISS.
NZ 431800 A.C. 2 John Balfour HOPKINS.
NZ 401566 Flight Sergeant Marcus Attlee INGLE.
NZ 39765 Sergeant Stewart BENTLEY.
NZ 415967 A.C. 1 George Henry WOODROOFE.
NZ 42126 Corporal Ian KIRKCALDIE.
NZ 404215 Sergeant Robert Charles Victor DALE.
NZ 4214806 A.C. 1 Henry Russell GULLY.
NZ 404537 Flight Sergeant Richard Trevor GRIFFITHS.
NZ 404846 Sergeant Charles Napier RICHARDS.
NZ 423979 A.C. 1 Vincent JAMES.
NZ 1942 Albert Claude DUSTIN.
NZ 431286 A.C. 1 George Maynard MURCH.
NZ 40728 Warrant Officer Louis Peter Henry NEILSEN.
NZ 436547 A.C. 2 Walter Francis SWIFT.
NZ 4214409 A.C. 1 William Ward KAYE.
NZ 4212308 A.C. 1 Reginald Wilfred JARMAN.
NZ 1943 John Power CRAWFORD.
NZ 422620 A.C. 2 Alan Bruce HUTCHINSON.
EDUCATIONAL SECTION
The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the
rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 22nd September, 1943:-
NZ 1944 Ledger William Allan CRAWLEY, M.A.
NZ 1945 Reginald Harry Hosie.
MEDICAL BRANCH
•Promotions
The undermentioned Squadron Leaders to be Acting. Wing
Commanders (paid). Dated 1st September, 1943:-
John Eaton HARDWICK-SMITH. Alan McKenzie GUNN.
Gordon Alexander IRWIN.
The undermentioned Flight Lieutenants to be Acting Squadron
Leaders (paid). Dated 1st September, 1943:-
Gavin Hannay FORREST. Anthony Howard MARSH.
Allan NORTH. Cyril Thomas COLLINS.
NEW ZEALAND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE
Transfer
Assistant Section Officer Hilda Kathleen HURLEY is transferred
to the Reserve. Dated 24th September, 1943.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
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Royal New Zealand Air Force, Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Officers
139 names identified
- William Busby (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Air Navigator
- Albert Prenter (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Air Navigator
- William James Henry Berriman (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
- James Ronald Steer (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- John Russell Kay (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- John Raynor McClymont (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- William Robert Duncan (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- John Marshall Stevenson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Ernest Henry D'Ath-Weston (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Ronald David Millar (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Kenneth Frederick Saunders (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Kenneth Leslie Lee (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Colin Ward Dawson Hunt (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Keith Allan Neilson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Arnold Haigh Lamb (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Thomas Chaplin Hills (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ralf Brattin (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ronald Henry Foster (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- James Sutton Prentice (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Winston Leonard Bayliss (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Robert Sinclair Thomson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ronald Ernest Priest (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Eliott Bruce Maxwell (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Colin Ernest Papps (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Cossins (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Arthur Ian Ross (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Jack Stewart Thomson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ivan Johnston Shearer (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ronald John Adams (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Thomas Hugh Ian Fleming (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Keith Alexander Galloway (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Frank Percival Aglam (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Frederick James Parker (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Arthur Stanhope Aldrich (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- James Harding Robb (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Garth Murray Hessell (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Leopold William Neale (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Thomas Michael Fenton (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Stanley Henry MacKenzie (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ian Melville Grant (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Henry Simmonds (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Simon Phillips (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Murray Charles Fearn (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Douglas Justus Reid (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Malcolm Ford Cullen (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ian Campbell Bennington (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Murray David Muggeridge (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Allen Fisher Lissette (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ian Connon McColl (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Neil McAllister Knox (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Charles Kennedy Fabian (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Michael Acton Sullivan (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Joseph Edward Arthur Howat (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Norman Lee Burton (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ivan William Hall (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Robert William Forbes (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Herbert John Drawbridge (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Roy Ehrlich Forbes (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Alan William Wilson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Joseph Norman Clark (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Thomas Leslie Milton Porteous (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Malcolm Douglas Beresford Graham (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Mervyn Gillard Hutchinson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Hugh Somerset Tucker (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Gordon Henry Meagher (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Arthur Houlton (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Joseph Bettle (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Philip Samuel Garth Thornton (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Grant Alan Russell (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Russell James Noonan (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Corran Perry Ashworth (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Barrington Smythe (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Equipment and Transport Officer
- William Fraser Edmond (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Equipment and Transport Officer
- Robert Button Seabrook (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Equipment and Transport Officer
- William Gordon Tulloch (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Equipment and Transport Officer
- Ernest Edwin Pittock (Flight Lieutenant), Transferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers
- Arthur Hamilton (Flying Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Cyril Broad Thorpe (Flying Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Jack Mackersy (Flying Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Victor Hjorring (Flying Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Robert Scott Low (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- James Dermot Hurley (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- John Philip Atkinson (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Raymond William Harland (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Gerard Keith Cotterill (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Bernard Arthur Barrow (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Engineer Officer
- Derek Aylmer Leslie (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Signal and Radar Officer
- Ernest David Lindsay Marsden (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Signal and Radar Officer
- John Charles Renouf (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Signal and Radar Officer
- Joseph Allan Lee (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Signal and Radar Officer
- Christian Stewart Lange (Pilot Officer), Appointed as Electrical Engineer
- Ian Birrell Sly (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Roland Emerson Harvey (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Anderson Dale (Flying Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Sydney Faber Fookes (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- John Henry Tizard (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Clement Walter Nash (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Fredrick Neil Anderson (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Edward Russell Orr (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- James Jones (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- William Gee Taylor (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- James McGuffie Costley (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Richard Edward Tripe (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- John Nigel Wilson (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Clement Travers Cave (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Kenneth Eric Mander (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Ralph Kraeft Trimmer (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- John Henry Rabone (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Carne George Stratford (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Walter Harry Bickley (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Kenneth Howard Bayliss (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- John Balfour Hopkins (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Marcus Attlee Ingle (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Stewart Bentley (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- George Henry Woodroofe (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Ian Kirkcaldie (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Robert Charles Victor Dale (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Henry Russell Gully (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Richard Trevor Griffiths (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Charles Napier Richards (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Vincent James (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Albert Claude Dustin (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- George Maynard Murch (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Louis Peter Henry Neilson (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Walter Francis Swift (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- William Ward Kaye (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Reginald Wilfred Jarman (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- John Power Crawford (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Alan Bruce Hutchinson (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Administrative and Special Duties Branch
- Ledger William Allan Crawley (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Educational Section
- Reginald Harry Hosie (Pilot Officer), Appointed to Educational Section
- John Eaton Hardwick-Smith (Squadron Leader), Promoted to Acting Wing Commander
- Alan McKenzie Gunn (Squadron Leader), Promoted to Acting Wing Commander
- Gordon Alexander Irwin (Squadron Leader), Promoted to Acting Wing Commander
- Gavin Hannay Forrest (Flight Lieutenant), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Anthony Howard Marsh (Flight Lieutenant), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Allan North (Flight Lieutenant), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Cyril Thomas Collins (Flight Lieutenant), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Hilda Kathleen Hurley (Assistant Section Officer), Transferred to Reserve
- F. Jones, Minister of Defence