✨ Military Promotions and Transfers
FEB. 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 89
Dated 11th November, 1944—
NZ 429135 Flight Sergeant Gordon Roy BLYDE.
Dated 20th November, 1944—
NZ 4213117 Flight Sergeant Stewart Balfour Urquhart MCKENZIE.
NZ 429070 Flight Sergeant Fredrick Louis HOOKWAY.
NZ 4213116 Flight Sergeant Leonard William LOWRY.
Dated 23rd November, 1944—
NZ 414965 Warrant Officer Athol Robert CRESSWELL.
Dated 28th November, 1944—
NZ 411398 Warrant Officer Robert Douglas HARBOROW.
Dated 30th November, 1944—
NZ 426912 Flight Sergeant Desmond John COLEMAN.
Dated 1st December, 1944—
NZ 416217 Warrant Officer Thomas Kenneth PARKER.
NZ 421107 Warrant Officer George Frederick SHERWIN.
NZ 416491 Warrant Officer Hamish Alexander HOGG.
NZ 411832 Warrant Officer William James PORTER.
NZ 4210941 Flight Sergeant Alfred Ernest DICKINSON.
NZC 429974 Flight Sergeant Peter Lloyd TREVARTHEN.
Dated 2nd December, 1944—
NZ 412077 Warrant Officer John Walter MCKENZIE.
Dated 10th December, 1944—
NZ 427800 Flight Sergeant Jack McLean GADDES.
As Navigators—
Dated 14th July, 1944—
NZ 4214130 Sergeant Douglas ROBERTSON.
Dated 20th October, 1944—
NZ 41554 Warrant Officer Kenneth John SUMMER-HAYS.
Dated 3rd November, 1944—
NZ 4311971 Warrant Officer William Francis Reece JACKSON.
NZ 4312227 Sergeant William Herringshaw EDGAR.
NZ 4313088 Sergeant Owen Tom Chadwick BRYANT.
NZ 439325 Sergeant Selwyn Lawrence SPIERS.
NZ 426972 Sergeant Maurice Fitzgerald TAYLOR.
NZC 439227 Sergeant Lubomir OZICH.
- NZ 432569 Sergeant Eric Houchen GOODHALL.
NZ 436956 Sergeant Robert HARKNESS.
Dated 17th November, 1944—
NZC 4212436 Sergeant Paul Saxon Alexander FOSTER.
NZ 4312264 Flight Sergeant William Kemp HUTCHENS.
NZ 4312259 Sergeant Francis William GATLEY.
Dated 28th November, 1944—
NZ 401468 Warrant Officer Kennedy Charles WALLACE.
NZ 413137 Warrant Officer Donald Arthur SPIERS.
NZ 438676 Sergeant Keith Cameron LOCKIE.
Dated 1st December, 1944—
NZ 412775 Warrant Officer John Sylvester WILKINS.
NZ 432021 Flight Sergeant Garth MORGAN.
NZ 4210071 Flight Sergeant Adrian Cecil RAY.
NZC 427052 Flight Sergeant Donald Wallis HERD.
As Wireless Operator/Air Gunners—
Dated 28th September, 1944—
NZ 417213 Warrant Officer Leo Michael KEATING.
Dated 3rd November, 1944—
NZ 4311353 Sergeant Arthur Munro RIDGLEY.
NZ 432172 Sergeant Peter Douglas Giffen AYSON.
NZ 438720 Sergeant Graham Stanley ROBINSON.
NZ 431986 Sergeant Athol Ross OHLSON.
NZ 436802 Sergeant Tracy Edward MORESBY.
NZC 4211679 Sergeant Norman Eric MOTE.
NZ 436171 Sergeant Ivan MORGAN.
NZ 432031 Sergeant Ralph Norman DENNIS.
NZ 433692 Sergeant Clifford Samuel DALE.
NZ 432005 Sergeant Trevor Frederick WALLER.
NZ 436725 Sergeant Allan D'Arcy Low.
Dated 17th November, 1944—
NZ 436988 Sergeant Claude Clare Neville KITCHING-MAN.
NZ 433164 Sergeant Stuart Alexander HUNTER.
Dated 20th November, 1944—
NZ 427000 Flight Sergeant Francis William CLOW.
Dated 28th November, 1944—
NZ 404565 Warrant Officer Ronald Dunstan PEARCE.
NZ 412974 Warrant Officer John Francis Gregory ANDERSON.
NZ 414008 Warrant Officer Charles Oscar LARSEN.
NZ 412452 Warrant Officer John Linton KING.
NZ 414007 Warrant Officer Edward Reid HOLLAND.
NZ 414878 Warrant Officer Mervyn Bennett HINKLEY.
Dated 1st December, 1944—
NZ 416690 Warrant Officer Leonard Horace EVERSON.
NZ 415000 Warrant Officer William John MARTIN.
NZ 439318 Sergeant Geoffrey Fraser WINTER.
NZ 4214453 Sergeant Donald Kennedy WHITE.
NZ 433723 Sergeant John Valentine INGRAM.
NZC 439168 Sergeant Douglas Benjamin HARDY.
NZ 431724 Sergeant Owen Melville Glendower WILMSHURST.
Dated 4th December, 1944—
NZ 415437 Warrant Officer Lawrence Michael ROACH.
As Air Bombers—
Dated 12th October, 1944—
NZ 428103 Flight Sergeant Joseph GOLDBLATT.
Dated 11th November, 1944—
NZ 4213341 Flight Sergeant Philip James FAULKNER.
As Air Gunners—
Dated 17th November, 1944—
NZ 4312350 Sergeant Alexander Douglas MOLLISON.
NZ 4311349 Sergeant Abraham STONE.
Dated 1st December, 1944—
NZC 433389 Sergeant Thomas Blair WHYTE.
B
Promotions
Squadron Leader (temp.) Maxwell WILKES to be Acting Wing Commander (paid). Dated 15th January, 1945.
The undermentioned Flight Lieutenants (temp.) to be Acting Squadron Leaders (paid) :—
Dated 1st January, 1945—
Jack Selwyn KNOBLOCH.
Hubert Cameron CARTER, D.F.C.
Dated 5th January, 1945 : Maurice Richard CLARKE.
The undermentioned Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants (temp.) :—
Dated 14th August, 1944 : Norman David WEBB, D.F.C.
Dated 11th September, 1944 : Alister Ernest BOULTON.
Dated 1st December, 1944—
Andrew McRobbie MALCOLM.
Ian Frederick LOCK.
Dated 4th December, 1944—
John Robert McCORKINDALE.
Stanley Joseph PAINE.
Alfred MUGGERIDGE.
Bruce COWIE.
Neil Frank STOCK, D.F.C.
Terence Jeffares McCASHIN.
William Richard Allan MASON.
Kenneth Henry BECKROFT, D.F.C.
Francis Herbert BERRY.
Campbell Kaid McLEAN.
Harold EAGLES.
Dated 6th December, 1944 : John Louis DE BEER.
Dated 7th December, 1944—
John Raymond JONES.
Edward Raymond SMITH.
Dated 9th December, 1944 : Gordon Albert WILLIAMS, D.F.M.
Dated 11th December, 1944 : Henry Drury ALCOCK.
Dated 12th December, 1944 : James Frederick TAYLOR, A.F.C.
Dated 19th December, 1944 : Eric Francis WITTING, D.F.C.
The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—
Dated 22nd July, 1944 : Douglas William Stanley SULLIVAN.
Dated 4th October, 1944 : Trevor Herbert STRONG, D.F.C.
Dated 26th November, 1944 : Charles STRANGE.
Dated 1st December, 1944—
Herbert Gaskell HORTON.
John Robert PRYDE.
Frank William PEACOCK.
Alan Vernon FREWER.
Stuart Speedy JERRAM.
Dated 2nd December, 1944—
William Alan FROST.
Leslie Manfred James LOADER.
Dawson Albert COTTON.
Hugh John BOYLAND.
Henry Patrick CLARKE.
Richard Leslie CROWE.
Jeffrey William STICHBURY.
Lance Dixon GILBERTSON.
Norman Kay ROBSON.
Noel Ray HEADIFEN.
Ernest Kenneth HADDY.
Claude Richard POCOCK.
Kenneth George NIX.
Dated 3rd December, 1944—
Archibald Alexander FLETCHER.
Donald COOK.
Dated 5th December, 1944—
William Logan STEWART.
Hugh Godfrey ROSS.
Dated 6th December, 1944—
Roy BARCLAY.
George Rowland WILSON.
Jeffrey Maxwell McCARRISON.
Dated 7th December, 1944 : Frank Maxwell TIMMS.
Dated 8th December, 1944 : Edgar Dugdale MOON.
Dated 9th December, 1944—
Maurice Raymond BLANK.
Douglas Hamilton GRAHAM.
Dated 10th December, 1944—
Richard George Parker LUCAS.
Allin James MCNEIL.
Dated 11th December, 1944—
Ronald James McLEAN.
Alan Reginald MILLS.
Melvyn Harold ROWE.
Ronald Frederick HAYCOCK.
Leslie Charles Reynish HULBERT.
Bernard Godfrey PIESSE.
Harold Lynton PARKER.
Russell Atkinson HUTCHINSON.
James Harry OTWAY.
John Matthew HARVEY.
Allan George RICKETTS.
Norman Rowellan JONES.
Harold Seymour CLARK.
Douglas Gerald PARSONS.
Samuel Egbert BROWN.
Robert Sturdee CUTFIELD.
John Bruce Thomson SCOTT.
Warren John KINGHAM.
John Gill HUTCHISON.
Maurice David POWER.
Ernest Alton SUTHERLAND.
Geoffrey Ernest Hamon LEWIS.
Evan Gillon HARRIS.
Wallace Randolph ROBERTSON.
Dated 12th December, 1944 : Douglas William KERMODE, D.F.C.
Dated 13th December, 1944—
William Gordon McCONNOCHIE.
Roy Lawrence AUSTIN.
Dated 14th December, 1944—
Richard Eldred George VINCENT.
Herbert Charles PLANK.
Percy Francis CARTER.
Transfers
The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Administrative and Special Duties Branch to the General Duties Branch in their present rank. Dated 3rd November, 1944 :—
As Navigators—
Pilot Officer James Alexander FLAUS.
Pilot Officer John Desmond POLLARD.
Pilot Officer Francis George SNEDDEN.
The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Reserve of Air Force Officers to the Active List in their present rank :—
Dated 3rd January, 1945—
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Herbert STRANGE.
Pilot Officer Percy Evan KELLAND.
Pilot Officer Clutha Nantes MACKENZIE.
Pilot Officer Walter Riley SCOTT.
Pilot Officer Paul LEONARD.
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- Gordon Roy BLYDE, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Stewart Balfour Urquhart MCKENZIE, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Fredrick Louis HOOKWAY, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Leonard William LOWRY, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Athol Robert CRESSWELL, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Robert Douglas HARBOROW, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Desmond John COLEMAN, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Thomas Kenneth PARKER, Appointed Warrant Officer
- George Frederick SHERWIN, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Hamish Alexander HOGG, Appointed Warrant Officer
- William James PORTER, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Alfred Ernest DICKINSON, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Peter Lloyd TREVARTHEN, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- John Walter MCKENZIE, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Jack McLean GADDES, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Douglas ROBERTSON, Appointed Sergeant
- Kenneth John SUMMER-HAYS, Appointed Warrant Officer
- William Francis Reece JACKSON, Appointed Warrant Officer
- William Herringshaw EDGAR, Appointed Sergeant
- Owen Tom Chadwick BRYANT, Appointed Sergeant
- Selwyn Lawrence SPIERS, Appointed Sergeant
- Maurice Fitzgerald TAYLOR, Appointed Sergeant
- Lubomir OZICH, Appointed Sergeant
- Eric Houchen GOODHALL, Appointed Sergeant
- Robert HARKNESS, Appointed Sergeant
- Paul Saxon Alexander FOSTER, Appointed Sergeant
- William Kemp HUTCHENS, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Francis William GATLEY, Appointed Sergeant
- Kennedy Charles WALLACE, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Donald Arthur SPIERS, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Keith Cameron LOCKIE, Appointed Sergeant
- John Sylvester WILKINS, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Garth MORGAN, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Adrian Cecil RAY, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Donald Wallis HERD, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Leo Michael KEATING, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Arthur Munro RIDGLEY, Appointed Sergeant
- Peter Douglas Giffen AYSON, Appointed Sergeant
- Graham Stanley ROBINSON, Appointed Sergeant
- Athol Ross OHLSON, Appointed Sergeant
- Tracy Edward MORESBY, Appointed Sergeant
- Norman Eric MOTE, Appointed Sergeant
- Ivan MORGAN, Appointed Sergeant
- Ralph Norman DENNIS, Appointed Sergeant
- Clifford Samuel DALE, Appointed Sergeant
- Trevor Frederick WALLER, Appointed Sergeant
- Allan D'Arcy LOW, Appointed Sergeant
- Claude Clare Neville KITCHING-MAN, Appointed Sergeant
- Stuart Alexander HUNTER, Appointed Sergeant
- Francis William CLOW, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Ronald Dunstan PEARCE, Appointed Warrant Officer
- John Francis Gregory ANDERSON, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Charles Oscar LARSEN, Appointed Warrant Officer
- John Linton KING, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Edward Reid HOLLAND, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Mervyn Bennett HINKLEY, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Leonard Horace EVERSON, Appointed Warrant Officer
- William John MARTIN, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Geoffrey Fraser WINTER, Appointed Sergeant
- Donald Kennedy WHITE, Appointed Sergeant
- John Valentine INGRAM, Appointed Sergeant
- Douglas Benjamin HARDY, Appointed Sergeant
- Owen Melville Glendower WILMSHURST, Appointed Sergeant
- Lawrence Michael ROACH, Appointed Warrant Officer
- Joseph GOLDBLATT, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Philip James FAULKNER, Appointed Flight Sergeant
- Alexander Douglas MOLLISON, Appointed Sergeant
- Abraham STONE, Appointed Sergeant
- Thomas Blair WHYTE, Appointed Sergeant
- Maxwell WILKES, Promoted to Acting Wing Commander
- Jack Selwyn KNOBLOCH, Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Hubert Cameron CARTER (D.F.C.), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Maurice Richard CLARKE, Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
- Norman David WEBB (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Alister Ernest BOULTON, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Andrew McRobbie MALCOLM, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Ian Frederick LOCK, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- John Robert McCORKINDALE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Stanley Joseph PAINE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Alfred MUGGERIDGE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Bruce COWIE, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Neil Frank STOCK (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Terence Jeffares McCASHIN, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- William Richard Allan MASON, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Kenneth Henry BECKROFT (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Francis Herbert BERRY, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Campbell Kaid McLEAN, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Harold EAGLES, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- John Louis DE BEER, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- John Raymond JONES, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Edward Raymond SMITH, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Gordon Albert WILLIAMS (D.F.M.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Henry Drury ALCOCK, Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- James Frederick TAYLOR (A.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Eric Francis WITTING (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
- Douglas William Stanley SULLIVAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Trevor Herbert STRONG (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flying Officer
- Charles STRANGE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Herbert Gaskell HORTON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Robert PRYDE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Frank William PEACOCK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Alan Vernon FREWER, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Stuart Speedy JERRAM, Promoted to Flying Officer
- William Alan FROST, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Leslie Manfred James LOADER, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Dawson Albert COTTON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Hugh John BOYLAND, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Henry Patrick CLARKE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Richard Leslie CROWE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Jeffrey William STICHBURY, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Lance Dixon GILBERTSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Norman Kay ROBSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Noel Ray HEADIFEN, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ernest Kenneth HADDY, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Claude Richard POCOCK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Kenneth George NIX, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Archibald Alexander FLETCHER, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Donald COOK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- William Logan STEWART, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Hugh Godfrey ROSS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Roy BARCLAY, Promoted to Flying Officer
- George Rowland WILSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Jeffrey Maxwell McCARRISON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Frank Maxwell TIMMS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Edgar Dugdale MOON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Maurice Raymond BLANK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Douglas Hamilton GRAHAM, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Richard George Parker LUCAS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Allin James MCNEIL, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ronald James McLEAN, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Alan Reginald MILLS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Melvyn Harold ROWE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ronald Frederick HAYCOCK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Leslie Charles Reynish HULBERT, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Bernard Godfrey PIESSE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Harold Lynton PARKER, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Russell Atkinson HUTCHINSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- James Harry OTWAY, Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Matthew HARVEY, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Allan George RICKETTS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Norman Rowellan JONES, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Harold Seymour CLARK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Douglas Gerald PARSONS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Samuel Egbert BROWN, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Robert Sturdee CUTFIELD, Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Bruce Thomson SCOTT, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Warren John KINGHAM, Promoted to Flying Officer
- John Gill HUTCHISON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Maurice David POWER, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Ernest Alton SUTHERLAND, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Geoffrey Ernest Hamon LEWIS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Evan Gillon HARRIS, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Wallace Randolph ROBERTSON, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Douglas William KERMODE (D.F.C.), Promoted to Flying Officer
- William Gordon McCONNOCHIE, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Roy Lawrence AUSTIN, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Richard Eldred George VINCENT, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Herbert Charles PLANK, Promoted to Flying Officer
- Percy Francis CARTER, Promoted to Flying Officer
- James Alexander FLAUS, Transferred to General Duties Branch
- John Desmond POLLARD, Transferred to General Duties Branch
- Francis George SNEDDEN, Transferred to General Duties Branch
- Geoffrey Herbert STRANGE, Transferred to Active List
- Percy Evan KELLAND, Transferred to Active List
- Clutha Nantes MACKENZIE, Transferred to Active List
- Walter Riley SCOTT, Transferred to Active List
- Paul LEONARD, Transferred to Active List