Military Promotions




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 1]

Promotions of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 4th January, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotions of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Dated 24th January, 1943 : Peter Anders JACOBSEN.
Dated 1st August, 1943 : Leonard George William BROWN.
Dated 6th September, 1943—
Keith Russell HUNTER.
Kenneth Gordon Stuart JAMES.
Henry Maitland ECCERSALL.
William Albert BIRD.
Francis Duncan O’FLYNN.
Ronald William BREMNER.
Maxwell SCANNELL.
Frederick Bernard SILL.
Allen HENSHAW.
Adrian Wilfrid Benjafield HAYMAN.
Anthony George PIERARD.
Alexander Ernest HENDERSON.
Kenneth Fergus HODSON.
Graham Roy CLOTHIER.
Noel Jack BATY.
Colin Fred CRAVEN.
Neville Batchelor COLLINS.
Raymond Snellgrove CHALLIS.
Francis Laurence LINDSAY.
William George LISTER.

Dated 11th September, 1943 : Bruce Rahu PHILIP.
Dated 18th September, 1943 : Mikaere Tutahunga Tomika MANAWAITI, D.F.M.
Dated 25th September, 1943 : Noel Horace McKAY.
Dated 6th October, 1943 : Stephen Leo CORBETT.
Dated 10th October, 1943—
Garth Seymour GRIFFITHS.
James William SMITH.
Jack Stanford ALLAN.
Edward James LAWSON.
Gerald Frodsham WATKINSON.
Leslie Carlton MAUD.
Barnabas Wilder WILLIAMS.
Clifford George FANTHAM.
Charles Blackwood CORNISH.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Equipment Officers—
Dated 1st August, 1943 : Gordon Henry GRANTHAM.
Dated 12th September, 1943—
Lloyd Samuel LEASK.
William Ferrars GREENBANK.

Accountant Officer—
Dated 12th September, 1943 : John Raymond KING.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II, GROUP I

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Technical Officers—
Dated 1st July, 1943 : Norman Roy MOORE.
Dated 12th September, 1943—
Geoffrey Harington DUNKLEY.
Douglas Hamilton ROWE.
Russell Garland WHITE.
Joseph Thomas WHITE.
Dated 14th September, 1943—
Eric LAWRENCE.
George William MITCHELL.
Allan Henry BAYLISS.
Arthur MacDonald COOPER.
Henry Ainsley BROOK.
William Stewart BOWNES.
Norman GREGORY.
Stanley Urwyn BECKETT.
Dated 20th October, 1943 : Stanley Roy ANSTICE.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Dated 12th September, 1943—
James William Charles McARTHUR.
Victor Gerald SPILLER.
Robert Graeme McNAUGHTON.
Alexander CHISHOLM.
Reginald Charles William BROWNE.
Lloyd George Hobbs ARNOLD.
Eric BRADWELL.
Patrick Dennis CROFT.
Frank Lincoln BLYTH.

Stanley Reeford SELF.
Edward SHIELDS-BROWN.
Charles Prior HOADLEY.
John Keith MATTHEWSON.
Chetel John CUFF.
Brylon Huxley WALKER.
George MYERS, M.M.
George Malcolm SMITH.
Robert Frederiek MEADOWS.
Donald Wilfred ARCUS.
Anthony Philip CORRY.
John Gascoyne Murray GIBBES.

Dated 15th September, 1943 : Maurice William Dean-Freeman THOMPSON.

Dated 1st October, 1943—
Frederick JONES.
William Edward PENNO.

Dated 25th October, 1943—
Ernest Keith EASTWOOD.
Reginald Gustav LUND.
Jasper Ernest Lewis BALDWIN.
John Duncan CAMPBELL.

WORKS SECTION

Dated 1st July, 1943 : Allan William EDEN.
Dated 23rd October, 1943 : Cyril John THORSTENSON.

METEOROLOGICAL SECTION

Dated 14th September, 1943—
Morton Dearsly FOUNTAIN.
Paul Burbidge LYNCH.
Gordon Douglas Allison ANDERSON.
Lewis Peter James CHAPMAN.
Edward Frank DODSON.
Ronald William McNEUR.
John Felix de LISLE.
Robert John HYSLOP.
Ian Russell SCOTT.
Ernest David ANDREWS.
Edward Robert SIMPSON.
Robert Julian LANCASTER.
Arthur NICOL.
Frederick Norman TRITT.
Colin George Frederick SIMKIN.
Edgar CONE.
Neville Robert LEWERS.
Edwin Gillman PRESSLEY.

EDUCATIONAL SECTION

Dated 14th September, 1943 : Esle Arnold HART.
Dated 4th October, 1943 : Owen Samuel MEADS.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Promotions of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 4th January, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotions of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Dated 15th August, 1943 : Cyril Foster JOHNSON, B.E.M.
Dated 1st September, 1943 : Leslie Malcolm PAGE.
Dated 1st November, 1943—
Jack POLKINGHORNE.
Donald Fraser AYSON.
Edward Reginald LOWE.
Stanley Herbert WARD.
George Alexander FOWLER.
Maxwell Henry HARWOOD.
Basil John Townsend HEATH.
Bert Helmar DILNER.
Herbert Keith MINTON, D.F.M.
Neil John McHUGH.
Gerald Francis BURTON.
William Francis HAYES.
Douglas Ian STEWART.
Aubrey Albert Donald BILLS.
Bruce Nelson GRAHAM.
John Frederick MORGAN.
William Cruickshank BATES.
James Joseph OLIVER.
Walter Lemnos WINCHESTER.

Dated 6th November, 1943—
William Gordon MORGAN.
Greville RANDELL.
David Alan RITCHIE.
Robert Hassell LIDDLE.
Graham Maxwell WISE.
Robert Martin BURGESS.
John Francis Hamilton MERCER.
John Lindsay HILL.
Arthur Leslie BATT.
Donald Allan ROSIE.



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🛡️ Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Reductions, and Relinquishments of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (continued from previous page)

🛡️ Defence & Military
4 January 1944
Royal New Zealand Air Force, Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Reductions, Relinquishments
134 names identified
  • Peter Anders Jacobsen, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Leonard George William Brown, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Keith Russell Hunter, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Kenneth Gordon Stuart James, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Henry Maitland Eccersall, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Albert Bird, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Francis Duncan O'Flynn, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ronald William Bremner, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Maxwell Scannell, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frederick Bernard Sill, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allen Henshaw, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Adrian Wilfrid Benjafield Hayman, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Anthony George Pierard, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Alexander Ernest Henderson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Kenneth Fergus Hodson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Graham Roy Clothier, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Noel Jack Baty, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Colin Fred Craven, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Neville Batchelor Collins, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Raymond Snellgrove Challis, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Francis Laurence Lindsay, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William George Lister, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Bruce Rahu Philip, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Mikaere Tutahunga Tomika Manawaiti (D.F.M.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Noel Horace McKay, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stephen Leo Corbett, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Garth Seymour Griffiths, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James William Smith, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Jack Stanford Allan, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edward James Lawson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gerald Frodsham Watkinson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Leslie Carlton Maud, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Barnabas Wilder Williams, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Clifford George Fantham, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Charles Blackwood Cornish, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gordon Henry Grantham, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Lloyd Samuel Leask, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Ferrars Greenbank, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Raymond King, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Norman Roy Moore, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Geoffrey Harington Dunkley, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Douglas Hamilton Rowe, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Russell Garland White, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Joseph Thomas White, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Eric Lawrence, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • George William Mitchell, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allan Henry Bayliss, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Arthur MacDonald Cooper, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Henry Ainsley Brook, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Stewart Bownes, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Norman Gregory, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stanley Urwyn Beckett, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stanley Roy Anstice, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James William Charles McArthur, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Victor Gerald Spiller, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Graeme McNaughton, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Alexander Chisholm, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Reginald Charles William Browne, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Lloyd George Hobbs Arnold, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Eric Bradwell, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Patrick Dennis Croft, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frank Lincoln Blyth, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stanley Reeford Self, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edward Shields-Brown, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Charles Prior Hoadley, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Keith Matthewson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Chetel John Cuff, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Brylon Huxley Walker, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • George Myers (M.M.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • George Malcolm Smith, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Frederiek Meadows, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Donald Wilfred Arcus, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Anthony Philip Corry, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Gascoyne Murray Gibbes, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Maurice William Dean-Freeman Thompson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frederick Jones, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Edward Penno, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ernest Keith Eastwood, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Reginald Gustav Lund, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Jasper Ernest Lewis Baldwin, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Duncan Campbell, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allan William Eden, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Cyril John Thorstenson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Morton Dearsly Fountain, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Paul Burbidge Lynch, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gordon Douglas Allison Anderson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Lewis Peter James Chapman, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edward Frank Dodson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ronald William McNeur, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Felix De Lisle, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert John Hyslop, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ian Russell Scott, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ernest David Andrews, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edward Robert Simpson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Julian Lancaster, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Arthur Nicol, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frederick Norman Tritt, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Colin George Frederick Simkin, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edgar Cone, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Neville Robert Lewers, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edwin Gillman Pressley, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Esle Arnold Hart, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Owen Samuel Meads, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Cyril Foster Johnson (B.E.M.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Leslie Malcolm Page, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Jack Polkinghorne, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Donald Fraser Ayson, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edward Reginald Lowe, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stanley Herbert Ward, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • George Alexander Fowler, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Maxwell Henry Harwood, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Basil John Townsend Heath, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Bert Helmar Dilner, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Herbert Keith Minton (D.F.M.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Neil John McHugh, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gerald Francis Burton, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Francis Hayes, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Douglas Ian Stewart, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Aubrey Albert Donald Bills, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Bruce Nelson Graham, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Frederick Morgan, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Cruickshank Bates, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Joseph Oliver, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Walter Lemnos Winchester, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Gordon Morgan, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Greville Randell, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • David Alan Ritchie, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Hassell Liddle, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Graham Maxwell Wise, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Martin Burgess, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Francis Hamilton Mercer, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Lindsay Hill, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Arthur Leslie Batt, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Donald Allan Rosie, Promoted to Flying Officer

  • F. Jones, Minister of Defence