THIRD ECHELON

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21758, 13 September 1940, Page 6

THIRD ECHELON

Extensive List Of Appointments

Effect From August 27 By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 12 An extensive list of appointments to the Third Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force with seniority in units as indicated, taking effect in most cases from August 27, is gazetted to-night. The list includes the following:— Sixth Field Regiment. New Zealand ] Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Weir. Royal New Zealand Artillery, commanding officer; Major C. L. Walter, second in command (temporary); Major J. M. Mitchell. Battery Commander; Captain (temporary Major) A. T. Rawle, Battery Commander (temporary). Seventh Regiment, 33rd Battery— Major R. E. Sleigh. Second New Zealand Divisional Signals—Major G. H. Heal, New Zealand Staff Corps. Twenty-fourth (Auckland) Battalion I —Lieutenant-Colonel C. Shuttleworth, i New Zealand Staff Corps. Command- j ing Officer; Major A. C. W. MantellHarding, second in command; Major | F. G. Dill. Company Commander; | Major R. V. Closey, Company Com- i mander. Twenty-Fifth (Wellington) Filial- ' ion—Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Wilder. Commanding Officer (temporary | Colonel as from August 28. while hold- I ing the appointment of Officer Commanding the Third Echelon); Major S. M. SatterthWaite, New Zealand Staff Corps, second in command; Major C. D. A. George, Company Commander; Major C. J. Williams, Company Commander. Twenty-Sixth (Canterbury-Otago) Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel J. RPage, Royal New Zealand Artillery, Commanding Officer; Major J. M. Samson, second in command; Major F. J. Brook, Company Commander; Majjor N. A. Rattray, Company Commander. Headquarters, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force Base —Captain (temporary Major) H. E. Crosse, administrative and conducting officer, fourteenth and fifteenth Forestry Companies N.Z.E. Railway Operating Group, New Zealand Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. Sage, Commanding Officer, Headquarters, New Zealand Railway Operating Group; Major F. W. Aicken, Officer Commanding Sixteenth New Zealand Railway Operating Company; Major J. A. Jull, Headquarters. New Zealand Railway Operating Group, N.Z.E.; Major G. T. Poole, Officer Commanding Seventeenth New Zealand Railway Operating Company. Thirteenth Railway Construction Company, N.Z.E—Major R. L. Smith, Officer Commanding. Nineteenth Army Troops Company. N.Z.E.—Major C. Langbein, Officer Commanding. New Zealand Medical Corps—Lieu-tenant-Colonel F. M. Spencer (temporary Colonel while holding the appointment of Officer Commanding No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital); Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. B. Bull, Officer Commanding Sixth Field Ambulance; Major J. L. R. Plimmer, second in command. Sixth Field Ambulance; Major A. L. De B. Noakes, Registrar No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital; Major D. Pottinger (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel while holding the appointment of Officer Commanding the Medical Division, No 2 New Zealand General Hospital); Major P. A. Ardagh (temporary LieutenantColonel while holding the appointment of Officer Commanding the Surgical Division, No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital); Captain (temporary Major) G. F. V. Anson, No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital (anaesthetist). New Zealand Army Nursing Service —Sister, temporary charge, Sister D. F. Gatenby. New Zealand Dental Corps—Major J. A. S. Mackenzie, Officer Commanding Second New Zealand Divisional Mobile Dental Section, N.Z.D.C.