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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Army

PURSUANT to section 16 of the New Zealand Army Act 1950, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Army :

ROYAL REGIMENT OF N.Z. ARTILLERY

Regular Force

2nd Lieutenant D. T. Weston to be Lieutenant. Dated 11 October 1968.

Officer Cadet James Cameron Brown to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 7 December 1968.

Territorial Force

3rd Field Regiment, RNZA

Major (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) J. R. Gregory to be temp. Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 1 September 1967.

Captain A. G. Young, from the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, 3rd Field Regiment, RNZA, to be Captain. Dated 22 December 1967.

ROYAL N.Z. ARMOURED CORPS

Regular Force

Captain (temp. Major) D. H. Crabb is re-engaged for the period 17 April 1969 to 16 August 1969.

Territorial Force

1st Armoured Squadron (Queen Alexandra's), RNZAC

2nd Lieutenant D. S. Glendinning to be Lieutenant. Dated 1 October 1968.

2nd Reconnaissance Squadron (NZ. Scottish), RNZAC

Captain (temp. Major) Ian Richard Lambeth, ED., relinquishes the appointment of OC and is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, Royal N.Z. Armoured Corps, in the rank of Major. Dated 1 December 1968.

THE CORPS OF ROYAL N.Z. ENGINEERS

Regular Force

Captain (temp. Major) W. E. M. Stewart to be Major. Dated 7 October 1968.

Territorial Force

Major (temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) G. W. Butcher, M.C., ED., B.E. (Civ.), M.N.Z.A.C., to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 20 November 1968.

ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY REGIMENT

Regular Force

Major Edward Marr, ED., is reposted to the Territorial Force on completion of his short-service engagement. Dated 19 September 1968.

Officer Cadet Bernard Robert Dodson to be 2nd Lieutenant, with seniority from 5 April 1968. Dated 20 November 1968.

Supernumerary List

Captain (acting Major) and Quartermaster I. F. Forsyth, M.B.E., is posted to the Retired List in the rank of Major and Quartermaster. Dated 2 December 1968.

Territorial Force

The notice published in the Gazette, 2 May 1968, No. 26, p. 705, relating to the appointment of Donald Huse, should read "Donald William Huse... etc."

2nd Battalion (Canterbury Nelson Marlborough West Coast), RNZIR

William John Samuel Eddy to be Honorary Lieutenant and is appointed Director of Music. Dated 17 September 1968.

7th Battalion (Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay), RNZIR

2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieutenant) D. N. L. Randle to be Lieutenant. Dated 1 May 1968.

Lieutenant David Neil Lawrence Randle is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, Royal N.Z. Infantry Regiment, in the rank of Lieutenant. Dated 2 November 1968.

5th Battalion (Wellington West Coast and Taranaki), RNZIR

Lieutenant Brian Stuart Standish is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, Royal N.Z. Infantry Regiment, in the rank of Lieutenant, until 31 August 1971. Dated 1 September 1968.

2nd Lieutenant P. J. Ashenden to be Lieutenant. Dated 22 February 1968.

6th Battalion (Hauraki), RNZIR

Major Edward Marr, ED., from the Regular Force, to be Major, with seniority from 28 August 1965. Dated 19 September 1968.

2nd Lieutenant Michael John Lane resigns his commission. Dated 1 November 1968.

ROYAL N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS

Territorial Force

Headquarters, Commander Royal N.Z. Army Service Corps, 1st Supplies and Transport Column

Timothy Cunlife Rogerson, Late Captain, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, to be Captain, with seniority from 1 October 1964. Dated 1 October 1968.

3rd Transport Company (General Transport), RNZASC

Lieutenant C. Davis is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, 3rd Transport Company (General Transport), RNZASC, in his present rank and seniority. Dated 1 September 1968.

4th Supply Platoon, RNZASC

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) T. G. Leighs to be Captain. Dated 24 November 1968.

ROYAL N.Z. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

Regular Force

Lieutenant-Colonel William Dickson Meldrum, M.B., CH.B., F.F.A.R.C.S., from the Reserve of Officers, General List, Royal N.Z. Army Medical Corps, is granted a short-service commission for a period of 3 months, in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 2 December 1968.

Evan Robert McKenzie, M.B., CH.B., F.R.C.S., is granted a short-service commission for a period of 3 months in the rank of Major. Dated 25 November 1968.

Territorial Force

1st Casualty Clearing Station, RNZAMC

2nd Lieutenant R. K. Smith to be Lieutenant. Dated 22 February 1968.

Otago University Medical Company, RNZAMC

Captain (temp. Major) A. J. Laws, M.D.S., RNZDC, to be Major. Dated 7 March 1967.

ROYAL N.Z. DENTAL CORPS

Territorial Force

Captain (temp. Major) A. J. Laws, M.D.S., Otago University Medical Company, RNZAMC, to be Major. Dated 7 March 1967.

ROYAL N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT

Territorial Force

The notice published in the Gazette, 21 December 1966, Vol. III, p. 2232, relating to the transfer to the Reserve of Officers, General List, of the Rev. Donald Glenny, Chaplain 3rd Class (Presbyterian), is hereby cancelled.

The Rev. Leslie Frederick Steel, Church of England, to be Chaplain 4th Class. Dated 30 August 1968.

ROYAL N.Z. NURSING CORPS

Regular Force

Matron M. E. Train, DIP.N., is re-engaged for the period 1 January 1969 to 31 December 1969.

Charge Sister N. J. Taylor, DIP.N., is re-engaged until retiring age for rank. Dated 19 November 1968.

Charge Sister (temp. Matron) Sylvia Pearl Frame, DIP.N., is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, Royal N.Z. Nursing Corps, in the rank of Matron. Dated 19 December 1968.

Sister C. M. Dickason is re-engaged for the period 21 December 1968 to 20 December 1969.

Territorial Force

The notice published in the Gazette, 28 November 1968, No. 78, p. 2190, relating to the appointment of Alys Lynette Cameron, is hereby cancelled and the following substituted:

"Alys Lynette Cameron to be Staff Nurse, with seniority from 30 November 1967, and is posted to the 2nd General Hospital, RNZAMC. Dated 11 October 1968."

N.Z. WOMEN'S ROYAL ARMY CORPS

Regular Force

The commission of 2nd Lieutenant Brenda Mabel Allen (nee Jones) lapses. Dated 28 November 1968.