New Zealand Gazette – 1945 – No. 11

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✨ Military Promotions and Appointments



Feb. 15] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 151

With seniority as from 4th December, 1942—
NZ 2357 Jack BUCKLEY, D.F.C.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

With seniority as from 22nd February, 1943—
NZ 2371 Robert Edward STOUT.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

With seniority as from 3rd November, 1943—
NZ 2353 Herbert James BARLEY, D.F.C.
NZ 2356 Thomas James BUDDLE, D.F.C.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

In the rank of Flying Officer—
With seniority as from 11th January, 1943—
NZ 2352 Donald Geoffrey AURISCH.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

In the rank of Pilot Officer—
NZ 2394 Bruce CLEGG.
Dated 20th May, 1944.

As Navigators—
In the rank of Flight Lieutenant—
With seniority as from 24th November, 1942—
NZ 2379 Lindsay Edward DURRANT.
Dated 1st August, 1944.

With seniority as from 8th February, 1943—
NZ 2367 Louis Neil ORCHARD.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

In the rank of Pilot Officer—
With seniority as from 6th August, 1943—
NZ 2350 Richard Bruce ANDERSON.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

As Navigators Radio—
In the rank of Flight Lieutenant—
With seniority as from 16th May, 1943—
NZ 2377 John Walter PYE.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

In the rank of Flying Officer—
With seniority as from 3rd December, 1942—
NZ 2385 Maurice George KEYS.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

As Wireless Operator/Air Gunner—
In the rank of Flight Lieutenant—
With seniority as from 4th February, 1942—
NZ 2383 John GROCOTT.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

As Air Bomber—
In the rank of Flying Officer—
With seniority as from 18th January, 1943—
NZ 2369 William Alexander PULLAR.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

As Air Gunners—
In the rank of Flying Officer—
With seniority as from 24th November, 1943—
NZ 2368 Jack Crichton PALMER, D.F.C.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

In the rank of Pilot Officer—
NZ 2395 Edward Ernest de Joux, C.G.M., D.F.M.
Dated 9th June, 1944.

As Flight Engineer—
In the rank of Flying Officer—
With seniority as from 5th October, 1943—
NZ 2373 Douglas TWIST.
Dated 1st January, 1944.

Promotions

The undermentioned Flight Lieutenants (temp.) to be Acting Squadron Leaders (paid) :—
Dated 14th December, 1944: Delwyn Stanley Morris CONSTANCE, D.F.C.
Dated 20th December, 1944: Robert Duncan McVICKER.

The undermentioned Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants (temp.) :—
Dated 3rd June, 1944: Maurice George KEYS.
Dated 26th November, 1944: Reynolds Bruce HENDRY, D.F.C.
Dated 18th December, 1944—
Harold Watson LONGLEY.
Ralph Edwin SPICER.
James Allworthy Lee MARTIN.
Peter George Alston RUSHBROOKE.
Ian Roderick McKENZIE (NZ 426335).
Norman Colin MOWAT.
Dated 19th December, 1944—
Blatchford SMITH.
Robin Keith CRAW, D.F.C.
Dated 20th December, 1944: Colin James FRASER.
Dated 21st December, 1944—
John Alfred WARING.
Ross BRACEY.
Charles Francis Howard MANSFIELD.
Leo Patrick GARVEY.
Aynsley Stuart FORBES.
Dated 22nd December, 1944: Bryan Hubert THOMAS, D.F.C.
Dated 26th December, 1944: Terris Leonard Barton TAYLOR.
Dated 28th December, 1944—
John Bell WILSON.
Douglas Stanley Péche SMITH, D.F.C.
Dated 31st December, 1944—
John Mathers BAILEY, D.F.C.
Arthur Percy GAINSFORD, D.F.C., A.F.C.
Flying Officer (temp.) Eric Duane SMART to be Acting Flight Lieutenant (paid). Dated 4th January, 1945.

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—
Dated 6th February, 1944: Richard Bruce ANDERSON.
Dated 1st August, 1944: James Benjamin MONK.
Dated 20th August, 1944: Michael Ernest GROOME.
Dated 19th September, 1944: John Walter Seymour NELSON.
Dated 1st October, 1944—
Jack Clarence VOSS.
Magnus Whitefield Wilson JOHNSON.
Hughie Errald BOYES.
Stanley Robert WAUGH.
Sydney PATTERSON.
Roy James HARRIES.
Allen Leonard HICKINBOTHAM.
Dated 4th October, 1944 :—
Harold Wixon HOY.
Dated 16th October, 1944—
Harold Windeyer FISHER.
Alan Thomas MAIR.
John Francis CODY.
Robert Edward Carson BLACK.
John Kenderdine QUIGLEY.
Norman Euan Russell DONALD.
Dated 1st November, 1944—
Cecil NORRIS.
Ronald Henry SCHWASS.
John Matheson URQUHART.
Rex Walter O’ROURKE.
Archibald Currie BEAZER.
Lewis Pat MILLER.
Arthur George HOSKINS.
Dated 5th November, 1944—
Desmond Edward STOKES.
Richard James Prescott VALLENTINE.
John Cecil CALLAGHAN.
Dated 14th November, 1944—
James Gavin KYLES.
Humphrey Clarence ACTON-ADAMS.
Gordon Maurice George KIRK.
Derek Edgar Skottowe WEBB.
Dated 19th November, 1944: James Angus HILDYARD.
Dated 16th December, 1944—
Gordon Stanley CLARK.
James Bennett GASCOIGNE.
Jack Cresswell RICHARDSON.
Walter Douglas WILLIAMSON.
Frederick Joshua McDONALD.
Walter Graham HUGHES.
Graeme Sinclair REID.
Matthew PARK.
Ernest George ROGERS.
Dated 17th December, 1944: Eric Sydney ARKINSTALL.
Dated 18th December, 1944—
Noel Alfred Florance ATKINS.
Stuart LEWIS.
Dated 19th December, 1944: Charles Frederick ROWE.
Dated 20th December, 1944—
Alexander George GRAY.
Bryan Elliott YOUNG.
Dated 21st December, 1944—
Murray Alexander JONES.
Maurice STEVENS.
Dated 22nd December, 1944—
Ian George NICKLIN.
Philip Sydney WHITEN.
Robert George Ivan BLACKETT.
Noel Varley SPANHAKE.
Dated 23rd December, 1944—
Durham Highet STRACHAN, D.F.C.
Desmond James MELBOURNE.
Dated 24th December, 1944—
Lionel Oscar EDWARDS.
Lawrence Harcourt BUNT.
Cecil Roy GRIFFIN.
Dated 26th December, 1944: Stanley William GALLEFLY.
Dated 28th December, 1944: Roy John Robert YOUNG.
Dated 29th December, 1944—
James Easton CAPSTICK.
Allan Thomas CONDON.
Dated 30th December, 1944—
John Keith SOMERVELL.
David Alexander Grahame DICKSON.
Harold Muir PARLANE.
Trevor Frederick HAMMOND.
Colin MacIntosh ROBERTSON.
John Alexander WILLIAMSON.
Robert Gordon DILLON.
Ralph William Dennis LOXTON.
Ivan HISLOP.
Thompson Wayne NICHOLLS.
Ernest Alfred BANCROFT.
Albert Lemcke TAUWHARE.
Leslie George HALLAM.
William Keith AMIES.
Russell James COX.
Ray Holt STEPHENSON.
Louis Cudworth SINCLAIR.

Thomas Edward McKay BURLING-CLARIDGE.
John Edwin MILES.
Philip HORTON.
Noel Stewart HALLAHAN.
Leslie Bruce WALLACE, C.G.M.
Douglas William TONG.

Valentine George MORRIS.

Patrick Davies REID.
Kenneth John URWIN.
Trevor Richard ALLAN.
Brian John O’DONOVAN.
James Arthur BROOKES.

Eric O’BRIEN.
Rae LOWTHER.
William Dudley HOLMES.
Douglas Roy Chambers HUTCHINS.
Amos Arthur BATTY.

Thomas Graham WALKER.
Murray Jackson WYATT.
Gordon Barry Fyans NEILL.
Edmund LEADLEY.

Douglas Alexander MORRISON.
Colin Edward WEST.
Nelson Hunter IRWIN.
Rex Harvey MASON.

Alfred LONGSTAFF.
James Ian WILKINSON.
Noel CHILD.
Hugh St. Clair FAUCHELLE.
Hilton Russell CHAPMAN.
James Ferguson BEATTIE.
Theo Kilpon ORR.
Richmond DOBBIE.
John SMITH.

Sidney Alfred CLARK, D.F.C.

Thomas Harris HARRISON, D.F.C.
Donald Denton McLEOD.
Alan Edward Woodford DAY.

David Bruce SINCLAIR.
Ernest CHERITON.
Ormond Harold CHRISTOPHER.
George Joseph WOODBERRY.
Frederick Venn HILTON.
Norris SIMMONS.
Daniel Ian WALKER.
Reginald James OWENS.
Maurice Joseph O’SULLIVAN.
Allan Gibson BAIRD.
William Reginald BIRDLING.
Clifford Walter FRANKLIN.
Francis Ewen Hewison MILLAR.
John Alexander DIXIE.
James Herbert MOORE.
Allan Cecil EARL.
Donald MACALISTER.



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

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Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Relinquishments, Dismissals, Royal New Zealand Air Force
174 names identified
  • Jack BUCKLEY, Promoted with seniority as from 4th December, 1942
  • Robert Edward STOUT, Promoted with seniority as from 22nd February, 1943
  • Herbert James BARLEY (D.F.C.), Promoted with seniority as from 3rd November, 1943
  • Thomas James BUDDLE (D.F.C.), Promoted with seniority as from 3rd November, 1943
  • Donald Geoffrey AURISCH, Promoted to Flying Officer with seniority as from 11th January, 1943
  • Bruce CLEGG, Promoted to Pilot Officer
  • Lindsay Edward DURRANT, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant with seniority as from 24th November, 1942
  • Louis Neil ORCHARD, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant with seniority as from 8th February, 1943
  • Richard Bruce ANDERSON, Promoted to Pilot Officer with seniority as from 6th August, 1943
  • John Walter PYE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant with seniority as from 16th May, 1943
  • Maurice George KEYS, Promoted to Flying Officer with seniority as from 3rd December, 1942
  • John GROCOTT, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant with seniority as from 4th February, 1942
  • William Alexander PULLAR, Promoted to Flying Officer with seniority as from 18th January, 1943
  • Jack Crichton PALMER (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flying Officer with seniority as from 24th November, 1943
  • Edward Ernest de Joux (C.G.M., D.F.M.), Promoted to Pilot Officer
  • Douglas TWIST, Promoted to Flying Officer with seniority as from 5th October, 1943
  • Delwyn Stanley Morris CONSTANCE (D.F.C.), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
  • Robert Duncan McVICKER, Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
  • Reynolds Bruce HENDRY (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Harold Watson LONGLEY, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Ralph Edwin SPICER, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • James Allworthy Lee MARTIN, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Peter George Alston RUSHBROOKE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Ian Roderick McKENZIE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Norman Colin MOWAT, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Blatchford SMITH, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Robin Keith CRAW (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Colin James FRASER, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • John Alfred WARING, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Ross BRACEY, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Charles Francis Howard MANSFIELD, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Leo Patrick GARVEY, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Aynsley Stuart FORBES, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Bryan Hubert THOMAS (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Terris Leonard Barton TAYLOR, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • John Bell WILSON, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Douglas Stanley Péche SMITH (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • John Mathers BAILEY (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Arthur Percy GAINSFORD (D.F.C., A.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Eric Duane SMART, Promoted to Acting Flight Lieutenant
  • James Benjamin MONK, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Michael Ernest GROOME, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Walter Seymour NELSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Jack Clarence VOSS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Magnus Whitefield Wilson JOHNSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Hughie Errald BOYES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stanley Robert WAUGH, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Sydney PATTERSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Roy James HARRIES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allen Leonard HICKINBOTHAM, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Harold Wixon HOY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Harold Windeyer FISHER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Alan Thomas MAIR, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Francis CODY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Edward Carson BLACK, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Kenderdine QUIGLEY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Norman Euan Russell DONALD, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Cecil NORRIS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ronald Henry SCHWASS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Matheson URQUHART, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Rex Walter O’ROURKE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Archibald Currie BEAZER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Lewis Pat MILLER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Arthur George HOSKINS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Desmond Edward STOKES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Richard James Prescott VALLENTINE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Cecil CALLAGHAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Gavin KYLES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Humphrey Clarence ACTON-ADAMS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gordon Maurice George KIRK, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Derek Edgar Skottowe WEBB, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Angus HILDYARD, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gordon Stanley CLARK, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Bennett GASCOIGNE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Jack Cresswell RICHARDSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Walter Douglas WILLIAMSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frederick Joshua McDONALD, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Walter Graham HUGHES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Graeme Sinclair REID, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Matthew PARK, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ernest George ROGERS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Eric Sydney ARKINSTALL, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Noel Alfred Florance ATKINS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stuart LEWIS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Charles Frederick ROWE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Alexander George GRAY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Bryan Elliott YOUNG, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Murray Alexander JONES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Maurice STEVENS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ian George NICKLIN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Philip Sydney WHITEN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert George Ivan BLACKETT, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Noel Varley SPANHAKE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Durham Highet STRACHAN (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Desmond James MELBOURNE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Lionel Oscar EDWARDS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Lawrence Harcourt BUNT, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Cecil Roy GRIFFIN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stanley William GALLEFLY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Roy John Robert YOUNG, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Easton CAPSTICK, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allan Thomas CONDON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Keith SOMERVELL, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • David Alexander Grahame DICKSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Harold Muir PARLANE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Trevor Frederick HAMMOND, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Colin MacIntosh ROBERTSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Alexander WILLIAMSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Gordon DILLON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ralph William Dennis LOXTON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ivan HISLOP, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Thompson Wayne NICHOLLS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ernest Alfred BANCROFT, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Albert Lemcke TAUWHARE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Leslie George HALLAM, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Keith AMIES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Russell James COX, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ray Holt STEPHENSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Louis Cudworth SINCLAIR, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Thomas Edward McKay BURLING-CLARIDGE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Edwin MILES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Philip HORTON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Noel Stewart HALLAHAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Leslie Bruce WALLACE (C.G.M.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Douglas William TONG, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Valentine George MORRIS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Patrick Davies REID, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Kenneth John URWIN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Trevor Richard ALLAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Brian John O’DONOVAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Arthur BROOKES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Eric O’BRIEN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Rae LOWTHER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Dudley HOLMES, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Douglas Roy Chambers HUTCHINS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Amos Arthur BATTY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Thomas Graham WALKER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Murray Jackson WYATT, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Gordon Barry Fyans NEILL, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Edmund LEADLEY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Douglas Alexander MORRISON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Colin Edward WEST, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Nelson Hunter IRWIN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Rex Harvey MASON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Alfred LONGSTAFF, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Ian WILKINSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Noel CHILD, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Hugh St. Clair FAUCHELLE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Hilton Russell CHAPMAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Ferguson BEATTIE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Theo Kilpon ORR, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Richmond DOBBIE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John SMITH, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Sidney Alfred CLARK (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Thomas Harris HARRISON (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Donald Denton McLEOD, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Alan Edward Woodford DAY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • David Bruce SINCLAIR, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ernest CHERITON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ormond Harold CHRISTOPHER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • George Joseph WOODBERRY, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frederick Venn HILTON, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Norris SIMMONS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Daniel Ian WALKER, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Reginald James OWENS, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Maurice Joseph O’SULLIVAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allan Gibson BAIRD, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • William Reginald BIRDLING, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Clifford Walter FRANKLIN, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Francis Ewen Hewison MILLAR, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Alexander DIXIE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Herbert MOORE, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Allan Cecil EARL, Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Donald MACALISTER, Promoted to Flying Officer