✨ Military Promotions and Retirements




Colonels' List

The notice published in the Gazette, 16 January 1958, No. 3, page 45, relating to Colonel Douglas Farquharson, O.B.E., should read "Colonel Douglas Farquharson Leckie, O.B.E., etc."

Royal N.Z. Artillery

Colonel Keith William Rutherford Glasgow, D.S.O., E.D., is posted to the Retired List. Dated 1 January 1958.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Trevor Kensington, O.B.E., E.D., is posted to the Retired List, dated 31 December 1957, and is appointed Colonel Commandant, R.N.Z.A., Central Military District. Dated 1 January 1958.

The following are posted to the Retired List, dated 1 January 1958, except where otherwise stated:

Lieutenant-Colonel Richmond Gray Bannister.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Hamilton Dunn, E.D.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Richard Marshall, E.D.
Lieutenant-Colonel Shirley Whitfield Nicholson, D.S.O., E.D.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Denzil Philp, D.S.O., E.D.
Major George Adamson.
Major Thomas Maxwell Vagarie Bain, M.C.
Major John Austen Banks.
Major Bruce William Brock.
Major George Roger Chance.
Major Albert Bygrave Chappell, E.D.
Major Gerald Francis Lee Dillon.
Major Roger Torrence Doig.
Major Charles Edgar Every, E.D.
Major Ernest Worthington Floyd Harrop.
Major Eric Wightman Inglis, M.C., T.D.
Major John Wilson Jordan, E.D.
Major Garth Armitage Ledgard, E.D.
Major Colin Campbell MacDonald, E.D.
Major George Portlock McElwee.
Major Ronald Edgar Mason, M.C.
Major Henry George Nathan, E.D.
Major Stewart Pentland Norrie.
Major Kenneth Walter Patterson, M.C.
Major Charles Kingsford Reed, D.S.O.
Major Edgar Richard Smythe, M.C.
Major George Solomon, M.B.E.
Major Robert Fenwick Spragg, E.D.
Major Keith Philip Wallis.
Major Peter Woolley, E.D.
Captain Bruce Hamilton Aveling, M.B.E. Dated 19 December 1957.
Captain Noel Lyall Blanchfield.
Captain Graham Reid Brabant.
Captain Arthur Ernest Christian.
Captain Alan Aylmer Coates.
Captain Hilary Mervyn Evans, M.B.E., E.D.
Captain Lloyd Martin Hartigan.
Captain James Gibson Hodge.
Captain Douglas Matthew Hooper.
Captain James Leonard MacIntosh Horrocks.
Captain Frank Graham Ireland.
Captain George Berry Johnson.
Captain Frederick Bernard Kersh.
Captain Robert John Lamond.
Captain Cecil Clarence Lobb.
Captain Thomas Marshall Loftus.
Captain Edwin Joseph McCaffery.
Captain Joseph Alexander McCready.
Captain Derek McElvogue.
Captain Athol Turner Leigh McKinstry.
Captain Clement Hasell McPhail.
Captain Jack Ernest George Maxwell.
Captain Cecil John Moloughney.
Captain Thomas Goodhue Moorcraft.
Captain Harold William Paice.
Captain Herbert James Pearce.
Captain Colin Campbell Peterson, E.D.
Captain John Kennedy Phillips.
Captain John Redmond, E.D.
Captain Edward Leslie Ryan.
Lieutenant Michael Dyke Acland.
Lieutenant Roderick Maurice Agnew.
Lieutenant John Alexander Allan.
Lieutenant Stanley Harold Archer.
Lieutenant Raymond Charles Ayers.
Lieutenant Brian Bendall Beattie.
Lieutenant Alan Murray Beale.
Lieutenant Alfred Wedderburn Bishop.
Lieutenant Herbert Radcliffe Black.
Lieutenant Peter Eugene Bowen.
Lieutenant Peter Norman Brown.
Lieutenant Robert Ian McKenzie Burnett.
Lieutenant Grey Noble Campbell.
Lieutenant John Craigie Campbell.
Lieutenant Kenneth William Carmichael.
Lieutenant Alfred Ernest Carson.
Lieutenant Arthur Tom Colpman.
Lieutenant Stanley Conway, M.M.
Lieutenant Raymond James Cranch.
Lieutenant Ian George Dudding.
Lieutenant John Elliott Easton.
Lieutenant George Wilbur Ferguson.
Lieutenant James Bickerton Fisher.
Lieutenant Edward Morland Fox.
Lieutenant Dennison Hawes Freer.
Lieutenant William James Gilbert.

Lieutenant Alan John Godfrey.
Lieutenant Allan Bellenden Gordon.
Lieutenant Ennis Groom.
Lieutenant Joseph Harold Hart.
Lieutenant Alfred Thomas Harvey.
Lieutenant Alick Nelson Hayes.
Lieutenant John Alan Douglas Holden.
Lieutenant Noel Stewart Hopwood.
Lieutenant Patrick David Hunt.
Lieutenant John Lindsay Irvine.
Lieutenant Kenneth Alexander Jeffrey.
Lieutenant Peter Andrew Josephson.
Lieutenant Brian Keeling. Dated 23 January 1958.
Lieutenant Glynnne Mansell Lloyd.
Lieutenant Gordon Bedford Lawry.

Royal N.Z. Armoured Corps

Major Patrick Arnold Barton.
Major Raymond Henry Bell.
Major James Edward Brunton.
Major Laurence Brian Clapham.
Major Eric Vernon Dawson.
Major Hamish Holdsworth Deans.
Major Rodney Bernard French Eastgate.
Major Wilson George Handley, M.C., E.D.
Major Jack Herbert Hutchinson.
Major Roy Hunter Kerr.
Major Frederick Herbert Poolman, M.C., E.D.
Major Robert James Rutherford, E.D.
Captain Alister Hector Campbell, E.D.
Captain Gerald Stanalaus Kavanagh.
Captain Colin Burrows McIntosh.
Captain Robert Napier MacReady.
Captain Noel Orton Mangin.
Captain James Nigel Overton.
Captain Alfred Henry James Pedder.
Captain Frederick Stephen Lionel Barrie Philpot.
Captain Charles Eric Rayner.
Lieutenant Donald Gordon Arblaster.
Lieutenant William Hewan Archdale.

The Corps of Royal N.Z. Engineers

Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence Collins Hardy, B.SC. Dated 12 October 1957.
Major Percival Benton Bryden.
Major Percy Claude Denzeil Childs.
Major James Archibald Goodsir, M.C., E.D. Dated 10 October 1957.
Major Francis Norcott Hornibrook, A.N.Z.I.A., L.R.I.B.A., A.M.I.S.E.(LOND.), M.R.S.I.(LOND.).
Major Kenneth Francis Jones.
Major Henry Raymond King.
Major Archibald Gavin Park.
Major Harold William Randell.
Major Ivan Bickerdyke Thomas.
Major William Fairlie Young, in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Leslie George Crawford, A.M.I.C.E., A.M.N.Z.I.E.
Captain Ian Arthur Cromie, A.M.I.C.E.
Captain Thomas Joseph Ellis.
Captain Morice Harold Kemp.
Lieutenant James Wallace Shaw Abernethy.

Royal N.Z. Corps of Signals

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Robert Hughes.
Major Clifford Allan Borman, M.B.E., E.D.

Royal N.Z. Infantry Corps

Lieutenant-Colonel Arapeta Awatere, D.S.O., M.C.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Robert Shaw Crarer, E.D.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Clendon Henare, D.S.O.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Douglas Reid, E.D. Dated 11 January 1958.
Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Gavin Steele, O.B.E.
Lieutenant-Colonel Carl Nelham Watson, M.C., E.D.
Major Richard Brian Abbott, M.C.
Major Anthony Alison.
Major Denis Forbes Anderson.
Major Ian Angus Arthur, M.B.E.
Major Warwick Sefton Banks.
Major George Gordon Beaven, E.D.
Major Philip Christian Blank.
Major Charles David Findlay Bowie, E.D.
Major Angus Crombie Carnachan.
Major Martin Hood Archer Clay.
Major James William Trevor Collins.
Major Ronald Edmund Cowell.
Major Lachlan Deryck MacLean Edie, E.D.
Major Bryan Sidney Edinger.
Major James Duncan Gibb, E.D.
Major Jack Lester Griffiths, M.C.
Major Ernest Warren Gumbley.
Major Lionel Slingsby Hart.
Major Hendry Bruce Hay, M.C.
Major Douglas George Hayter.
Major Rurie Hunter.
Major Sydney Freyberg Jackson.
Major James Wilfred McArthur, M.C.
Major Thaddeus Pearcey McCarthy.
Major Archie Peter MacDuff, E.D.
Major Robert Alan McGregor.
Major Hector Gordon McQuarde, E.D.



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πŸ›‘οΈ Correction to Colonels' List Notice

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
Correction, Colonels' List, Gazette Notice
  • Douglas Farquharson Leckie (Colonel, O.B.E.), Correction to Gazette notice

πŸ›‘οΈ Royal N.Z. Artillery: Posting to Retired List and Appointment

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
1 January 1958
Royal N.Z. Artillery, Retired List, Colonel Commandant
  • Keith William Rutherford Glasgow (Colonel, D.S.O., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Edward Trevor Kensington (Lieutenant-Colonel, O.B.E., E.D.), Posted to Retired List and appointed Colonel Commandant

πŸ›‘οΈ Royal N.Z. Artillery: Personnel Posted to Retired List

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
1 January 1958
Royal N.Z. Artillery, Retired List
101 names identified
  • Richmond Gray Bannister (Lieutenant-Colonel), Posted to Retired List
  • James Hamilton Dunn (Lieutenant-Colonel, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • John Richard Marshall (Lieutenant-Colonel, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Shirley Whitfield Nicholson (Lieutenant-Colonel, D.S.O., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • William Denzil Philp (Lieutenant-Colonel, D.S.O., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • George Adamson (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Thomas Maxwell Vagarie Bain (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • John Austen Banks (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Bruce William Brock (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • George Roger Chance (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Albert Bygrave Chappell (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Gerald Francis Lee Dillon (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Roger Torrence Doig (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Charles Edgar Every (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Ernest Worthington Floyd Harrop (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Eric Wightman Inglis (Major, M.C., T.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • John Wilson Jordan (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Garth Armitage Ledgard (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Colin Campbell MacDonald (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • George Portlock McElwee (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Ronald Edgar Mason (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Henry George Nathan (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Stewart Pentland Norrie (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Kenneth Walter Patterson (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Charles Kingsford Reed (Major, D.S.O.), Posted to Retired List
  • Edgar Richard Smythe (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • George Solomon (Major, M.B.E.), Posted to Retired List
  • Robert Fenwick Spragg (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Keith Philip Wallis (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Peter Woolley (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Bruce Hamilton Aveling (Captain, M.B.E.), Posted to Retired List
  • Noel Lyall Blanchfield (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Graham Reid Brabant (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Arthur Ernest Christian (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Alan Aylmer Coates (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Hilary Mervyn Evans (Captain, M.B.E., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Lloyd Martin Hartigan (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • James Gibson Hodge (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Douglas Matthew Hooper (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • James Leonard MacIntosh Horrocks (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Frank Graham Ireland (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • George Berry Johnson (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Frederick Bernard Kersh (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Robert John Lamond (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Cecil Clarence Lobb (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Thomas Marshall Loftus (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Edwin Joseph McCaffery (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Joseph Alexander McCready (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Derek McElvogue (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Athol Turner Leigh McKinstry (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Clement Hasell McPhail (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Jack Ernest George Maxwell (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Cecil John Moloughney (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Thomas Goodhue Moorcraft (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Harold William Paice (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Herbert James Pearce (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Colin Campbell Peterson (Captain, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • John Kennedy Phillips (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • John Redmond (Captain, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Edward Leslie Ryan (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Michael Dyke Acland (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Roderick Maurice Agnew (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • John Alexander Allan (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Stanley Harold Archer (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Raymond Charles Ayers (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Brian Bendall Beattie (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Alan Murray Beale (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Alfred Wedderburn Bishop (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Herbert Radcliffe Black (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Peter Eugene Bowen (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Peter Norman Brown (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Robert Ian McKenzie Burnett (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Grey Noble Campbell (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • John Craigie Campbell (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Kenneth William Carmichael (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Alfred Ernest Carson (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Arthur Tom Colpman (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Stanley Conway (Lieutenant, M.M.), Posted to Retired List
  • Raymond James Cranch (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Ian George Dudding (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • John Elliott Easton (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • George Wilbur Ferguson (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • James Bickerton Fisher (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Edward Morland Fox (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Dennison Hawes Freer (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • William James Gilbert (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Alan John Godfrey (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Allan Bellenden Gordon (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Ennis Groom (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Joseph Harold Hart (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Alfred Thomas Harvey (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Alick Nelson Hayes (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • John Alan Douglas Holden (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Noel Stewart Hopwood (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Patrick David Hunt (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • John Lindsay Irvine (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Kenneth Alexander Jeffrey (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Peter Andrew Josephson (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Brian Keeling (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Glynnne Mansell Lloyd (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • Gordon Bedford Lawry (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List

πŸ›‘οΈ Royal N.Z. Armoured Corps: Personnel Posted to Retired List

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
1 January 1958
Royal N.Z. Armoured Corps, Retired List
22 names identified
  • Patrick Arnold Barton (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Raymond Henry Bell (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • James Edward Brunton (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Laurence Brian Clapham (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Eric Vernon Dawson (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Rodney Bernard French Eastgate (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Wilson George Handley (Major, M.C., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Jack Herbert Hutchinson (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Roy Hunter Kerr (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Frederick Herbert Poolman (Major, M.C., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Robert James Rutherford (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Alister Hector Campbell (Captain, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Gerald Stanalaus Kavanagh (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Colin Burrows McIntosh (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Robert Napier MacReady (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Noel Orton Mangin (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • James Nigel Overton (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Alfred Henry James Pedder (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Frederick Stephen Lionel Barrie Philpot (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Charles Eric Rayner (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Donald Gordon Arblaster (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List
  • William Hewan Archdale (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List

πŸ›‘οΈ The Corps of Royal N.Z. Engineers: Promotions and Postings

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
12 October 1957
Corps of Royal N.Z. Engineers, Promotions, Postings
16 names identified
  • Lawrence Collins Hardy (Lieutenant-Colonel, B.SC.), Posted to Retired List
  • Percival Benton Bryden (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Percy Claude Denzeil Childs (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • James Archibald Goodsir (Major, M.C., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Francis Norcott Hornibrook (Major, A.N.Z.I.A., L.R.I.B.A., A.M.I.S.E.(LOND.), M.R.S.I.(LOND.)), Posted to Retired List
  • Kenneth Francis Jones (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Henry Raymond King (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Archibald Gavin Park (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Harold William Randell (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Ivan Bickerdyke Thomas (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • William Fairlie Young (Major, in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel), Posted to Retired List
  • Leslie George Crawford (Captain, A.M.I.C.E., A.M.N.Z.I.E.), Posted to Retired List
  • Ian Arthur Cromie (Captain, A.M.I.C.E.), Posted to Retired List
  • Thomas Joseph Ellis (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • Morice Harold Kemp (Captain), Posted to Retired List
  • James Wallace Shaw Abernethy (Lieutenant), Posted to Retired List

πŸ›‘οΈ Royal N.Z. Corps of Signals: Postings

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
Royal N.Z. Corps of Signals, Postings
  • Arthur Robert Hughes (Lieutenant-Colonel), Posted to Retired List
  • Clifford Allan Borman (Major, M.B.E., E.D.), Posted to Retired List

πŸ›‘οΈ Royal N.Z. Infantry Corps: Postings

πŸ›‘οΈ Defence & Military
11 January 1958
Royal N.Z. Infantry Corps, Postings
33 names identified
  • Arapeta Awatere (Lieutenant-Colonel, D.S.O., M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Kenneth Robert Shaw Crarer (Lieutenant-Colonel, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • James Clendon Henare (Lieutenant-Colonel, D.S.O.), Posted to Retired List
  • Alexander Douglas Reid (Lieutenant-Colonel, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Donald Gavin Steele (Lieutenant-Colonel, O.B.E.), Posted to Retired List
  • Carl Nelham Watson (Lieutenant-Colonel, M.C., E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Richard Brian Abbott (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Anthony Alison (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Denis Forbes Anderson (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Ian Angus Arthur (Major, M.B.E.), Posted to Retired List
  • Warwick Sefton Banks (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • George Gordon Beaven (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Philip Christian Blank (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Charles David Findlay Bowie (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Angus Crombie Carnachan (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Martin Hood Archer Clay (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • James William Trevor Collins (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Ronald Edmund Cowell (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Lachlan Deryck MacLean Edie (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Bryan Sidney Edinger (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • James Duncan Gibb (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Jack Lester Griffiths (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Ernest Warren Gumbley (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Lionel Slingsby Hart (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Hendry Bruce Hay (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Douglas George Hayter (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Rurie Hunter (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Sydney Freyberg Jackson (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • James Wilfred McArthur (Major, M.C.), Posted to Retired List
  • Thaddeus Pearcey McCarthy (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Archie Peter MacDuff (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List
  • Robert Alan McGregor (Major), Posted to Retired List
  • Hector Gordon McQuarde (Major, E.D.), Posted to Retired List