Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Monday 9 October 1905, page 7


THE DEFENCE FORCES.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS.)

MELBOURNE, Sunday.

The following changes in the naval and military forces are notified by the Defence Department:—

First Australian Light Horse.—New South Wales Lancers: Frank Percival Dow-dell, to be second lieutenant (provision-ally) supernumerary to the establishment pending absorption.

Second Australian Light Horse Regiment.— New South Wales Mounted Rifles: Patrick Connolly, to be second lieutenant (provision-

ally).

Third Australian Light Horse Regiment (Australian Horse).—The provisional ap-pointments of second lieutenants Frank Kerr Chisholm and Harold Stewart Ryrie are confirmed. Second Lieu-   tenants Thomas Lloyd Coughlan, William Underwood Alley, Henry Harris, Frederick Otton, and second lieutenant and honorary lieutenant Arthur Raymond Cosgrove to be

lieutenants.

Australian Field Artillery.—New South Wales; Thomas Wilkinson Green and Frank Fox, to be second lieutenants (provision-ally)

Australian Garrison Artillery.—New South Wales: The provisional appointment as second lieutenants of Sydney Trevillian Hodge Percy George Smith, and Hugh Regi-nald Hallard have been confirmed.

Corps of Australian Engineers.—New South Wales No. 1 Submarine Mining Company: William Anthony Hustable, to be second lieutenant (provisionally). Provisional appointment as second lieutenant Robert James Boyd has been confirmed.

First Australian Infantry Regiment.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Holmes, D.S.O., V.D., A.D.C. to his Excellency the Governor-General, to command First Austral-ian Infantry Regiment, vice Lieutenant Colonel W. J. N. Oldershaw, V.D., transferred to unattached list. Captain and Brevet-Major William Walker Russell Watson to be Major dated September 1, 1905. Captain John Walter

Croker to be major.

Fourth Australian Infantry Regiment.— Second Lieutenant Eric Hyman to be lieuten-

ant.

First Regiment New South Wales Scottish Rifles: Lieutenant Walter Oswald Watt to be captain.

Australian Rifle Regiment: Captains Edwin Cresence Cooke and Louis Albert Curtis to be majors. Captain Samuel Bailey Dowsett to be militia acting adjutant (provisionally), vice Captain E. C. Cooke.

Civil Service Rifles.—-William Joseph Row-land to be second lieutenant(provisionally).

Ordnance Department : Lieutenant and Quartermaster William James Brown, senior ordnance officer (N.S.W,), to be captain and quartermaster.

Resignations: New South Wales Irish Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas Daniel O'Sul-livan and Second-lieutenants James Arthur Stewart and Frank Gaxieu.

Transfers: Second Australian Light Horse Regiment (N.S.W.), Mounted Rifles—Second lieutenant Fitzroy Somerset Stacey from unat-tached list to be second lieutenant, and to rank regimentally from the date of transfer.

Australian Army Medical Corps (N.S.W.) Militia Establishment: Captain Bernard James Newmarch from unattached list, to be captain.

Unattached list: Lieutenant-Colonel William James Norman Oldershaw, V.D., from First Australian Infantry Regiment, to be lieuten-ant-colonel: Second Lieutenant Wilfred Mowle, from St. George's English Rifles Re-

giment, to be second lieutenant.

Reserve of officers: Lieutenant Henry Josiah Parker from St. George's English Rifle Regi-

ment, to be lieutenant.

NAVAL FORCES.

Unattached list: Lieutenant William Gra-ham Rickwood, of the Permanent Forces, to

be lieutenant.

Retired list: Sub-lieutenant Walter Alcock

is placed on the retired list.