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ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has

approved of the following changes being made:—

PERMANENT AIR FORCE.

Medical Branch.

Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service.

The appointments of the following Sisters are terminated
on demobilization:—N. J. McMahon (500633), 18th October.
1948, H. M. O. Davis (500277), 29th October, 1948, M. E. E.
Wood (502178), 1st November, 1948.

CITIZEN AIR FORCE.

General Duties Branch.

The appointments of the following Temporary Flight Lieu-

tenants are terminated on demobilization:—K. Hinde
(413382), 28th October, 1948, L. R. O'Donnell (428348), 29th
October, 1948, B. W. Donoghue (421894), 2nd November.
1948, M. F. Pittman (400485), 3rd November. 1948.

Medical Branch.

The appointments of the following Temporary Squadron

Leaders are terminated on demobilization:—G. D. Charters
(257499), 18th October, 1948, L. Kowadlo (257662), 28th
October, 1948.

Pharmaceutical Section.

The appointment of Temporary Flight Lieutenant C. M.
Waters (252467) is terminated on demobilization, 15th
November, 1948.

Accountant Branch.

The appointmeHt of Flying Officer S. M. Kellow (297496)
is terminated on demobilization, 31st October, 1948.

Special Duties Branch.

The appointments of the following Flying Officers are
terminated on demobilization:—E. F. O'B'rien (1552), 1st
November, 1948, E. J. Guppy (3453), 11th November, 1948.

Technical List.

The appointment of Flying Officer C. H. Arlcinstall (2766)
is terminated on medical grounds, 1st November, 1948.

RESERVE.

General Duties Branch.

The following former officers are appointed to commissions
with the ranks indicated:—(Temporary Squadron Leader)
Cecil Oswald McKew (260546), 7th June, 1948, George
Andrew Gray, D.F.C. (402346), 16th June, 1948, Geoffrey
Talbot Chinchen, M.B.E., D.F.C. (250704), 29lh June, 1948,
Peter Theodore Jensen (403592), 16th July, 1948, John
Alexander McMillan (400726), 27th July, 1948, John Joseph
Larkin (261436), 29th July, 1948, Leslie Hoban Toid
(400547), 2nd August, 1948, Leonard Donald McKenzie
(250653), 5th August, 1948, Clyde Gladstone O'Dea, O.B.E.
(407048), 17th August, 1948, Robert George Mullins, A.F.C.
(404799), 25th August, 1948, (Temporary Flight Lieutenant)
Charles Leslie Green (33762), 7th May, 1948, Robert James
Griffiths (413606), 1st June, 1948, John Greenslade Plain
(401803), 4th June, 1948, Henry Brown, D.F.C. (421579),
Thomas Walter Ingersoll (422188), 7th June, 1948, Colin
Colmer (422426), 8th June, 1948, Kenneth John Brighton
McLennan (412645), John Hugh Poate (421042), Karl
Antony Romans (402401), 10th June, 1948, Edward Lang
Bayly (403548), Lewis Bernard Harte (23086), 11th June,
1948, Francis Thomas Joseph de Warren Gloster (405582),
13th June, 1948, Maurice Arthur Blake (407404), 14th June,
1948, Paul Colbert Bash (422380), 15th June, 1948, George
Cyril Coward, D.F.C. (404004), 16th June, 1948, Richard
Charles Crebbin (423656), Thomas Michael Fitzgerald
(429221), Douglas Vernon Prowse (411946), 17th June, 1948,
Jack Harold Richardson (403787), 18th June, 1948, Ronald
Vernon Clifford Dangar, D.F.M. (404545), 21st June, 1948,
Arthur Howarth Sydney Brown (437673), Rodney Clave
Cowell (417810), 24th June, 1948, Edward James Little
(21333), 26th June, 1948, Ian Redcliff Pearce (401147), 30th
June, 1948, Malcolm Arthur Kemp, D.F.C. (416218) 1st
July, 1948, Walter Spencer Bell (405243), James Deacon
(406713), Ronald David Eggers (401277), 5th July, 1948,
Edwin Henry East, D.F.M. (401324), 7th July, 1948,
Reginald John Bateup (402914), Harold James Burn
(401025), 8th July, 1948, Hector Alexander Scott (421402),
9th July, 1948, John Darling (418998), Gilbert Rex Field
(419121), Roydon William Richard Lugg (406786), John
Gordon Rees, D.F.C. (205327), 12th July, 1948, John Hobson
Hcoke, O.B.E., D.F.C. (401216), John Keith Staunton, D.F.C.
(404415), Geoffrey Lewis Stubbs (408302), 13th July, 1948,
Henry Kennedy McLoughlin (406944), 14th July, 1948,
Thomas John James Cunliffe (411127), 15th July, 1948,
Francis Hamilton Cashmore (400778), John Athol Pettifer
(411945), Edward Leaver Withell (415003), 16th July, 1948,
Richard Carty (418344), 17th July, 1948, Richard Henry
Sasse (406959), John Godfrey West (205746), 19th July,
1948, Torlief Stangbye Eriksen, D.F.C'. (400395), 20th July,
1948, Malcolm Bethune (408068), David Valentine Paul,
D.F.C. (403215), 21et July, 1948, Francis Cecil Grady
(413190), Howard Arthur Leslie Moran (400479), Alan
•James Murray (413880), Arthur Roland Ward (424484),
Fred Roland Winzar (404524), 22nd July, 1948, Henry
Charles Long (411342), Robert James Porter (435041), John
Lachlan Rentell (35779), 23rd July, 1948, James Duguid
(411300), 24th July, 1948, Ian Earnest George Bayley
(401337), Henry Eric Blakers (427841), Graham Gillies
Johnstone (412452), Owen Joseph McKenna (418004), 26th
July, 1948, Jam.es Campbell Erskine (421191), 27th July,
1948, John Maxwell Freeland, D.F.C. (401561), Colin Harold
Heard (417637), 28th July, 1948, Frederic Goodwin Nash
Ewence (428519), Pauric Denis Lane (436506), Desmond
Fitzgerald O'Driscoll (406259), John Humphreys Stevens,
D.F.C. (416802), Walter Sweetnam Sullivan (402281), Robert
Alan Swift, D.F.C. (402416), 29th July, 1948, John Purves,
D.F.C. (410562), 30th July, 1948, Herbert Egerton Trounce
(403099), 3rd August, 1948, Marshall Brugess (422416),
Daniel Rees, C.G.M. (415193), Alan Wilkie Thiele (401057),
4th August, 1948, John Marshall (416354), Alan Storr
(409804), 5th August, 1948, Douglas Broadfoot (412893),
Frank Foster Brown (407026), 6th August, 1948, Reginald
Harold Sutton, D.F.C. (407959), 10th August, 1948, Ernest
Alfred Straughair (409860), 14th August, 1948, Raymond
Stanley Lackey (436384), 17th August, 1948, Terence Gerard
Denis Roberts, A.F.C. (402807), 18th August, 1948, Ronald
Noel Barber (420850), 19th August, 1948, Thomas Craig
Anderson (40C015), 20lh August, 1948, Marcel Joseph
Fakliry (409137), Samuel Raymond McCracken (407796),
23rd August, 1948, Norman Peter Coles Gunson, D.F.C.
(407424), Jack Gordon Sanderson (407835), 24th August,
1948, Henry Victor Boarder (430273), Charles William
Marshall (420227), James Terrence Sinclair (412085),
25th August, 1948, Robert Douglas Hilditch (407154), 26th
August, 1948, (Flying Officer) Magnus James Hughson
(419380), 28th April, 1948, Jack Lewis Ingate (421220),
4th May, 1948, Christopher Arthur Faranthoiene (413887),
3 6th May, 1948, Ewen John Cameron (432642), 1st June,
1948, Eric Earl Collins (20827), 3rd June, 1948, Max Robert
Prosper (416996), 4th June, 1948, Charles Edward Martyn
(21390), 7th June, 1948, William Duncan Gulliford (402828),
Charles William Ramsay (15404), 9th June, 1948, John

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Harold Carroll (421710), 10th June, 1948, Stanley James
Connell (420448), 13th June, 1948, Clifford Alan Murray
Taylor (413620), 15th June, 1948, Lawrence Herbert Hicks
(443402), 16th June, 1948, Ian Alison Beer (410248), Brian
John Comerford (424976), 19th June, 1948, Donald Allister
Allan (406908), Arthur William Thorne (10548), 21st June,
1948, John Joseph Egan, D.F.C. (422468), 22nd June, 1948,
Arthur Winston Harrison (430313), 25th June, 1948, Arthur
Cowley (50704), 26th June, 1048, Anthony Allan Campbell
(417618), 27th June, 1948, Leonard Herbert Lewis White
(435039), 28th June, 1948, John William Fletcher (434980),
Thomas Stanway Patch (425546), 29th June, 1948, Raymond
Austin Walsh (20449), 30th June, 1948, Harold Anthony
O'Donnell (410715), Andrew William Thompson (439851),
1st July, 1948, Albert John Gilbert, D.F.C. (415778), William
Winton Hay (413589), 2nd July, 1948, William John Pyke
(431679), 3rd July, 1948, Arthur Adrian Dellit (403260),
Frank David Moore (409568), Alan Andrew Pearson (413500),
Allan Willis Petersen (408510), 5th July, 1948, John Henri
Grant (411139), Desmond Haigh Harrison (405734), Reginald
Frederick Sweet (430210), 7th July, 1948, Eric Gorman
Campbell (434580), Jack Ronald Rigby (433130), Donald
Grant Uther (423361), 9th July, 1948, Leslie Albert Smith
(432628), 11th July, 1948, Frank Gordon Moorey (403275),
William Robert Sparkes (439329), 12th July, 1948, Harry
Madren Leggo (400370), Edwin Allan Rookes (419673), 13th
July, 1948, Roy Edward Bird (422108), Keith Charles Shalless
(430148) , 14th July 1948, Robert Charles Chester-Master
(434592) Norman Charles Tims, (419750), 15th July, 1948,
Alan Johnson Barr (409371), Neil William Dalziel (440693)
Athol Clifford Gibson (427315), William Thomas Hogan
(412141), Geoffrey Joseph Smith (427108), 16th July, 1948,
Leonard Kelman Stevens (438972), Henry George Willows
(421116), 17th July, 1948, Geoffrey Vincent Frank Tudor
(424805), 18th July, 1948, Herbert Ivey Bradbury (409501),
19th July, 1948, William Lawrence Maguire (420971), William
Alexander Park (422679), 20th July, 1948, Lance Diwell
(408981), Spiro Peter Tsicalas (402?025?), 21st July, 1948,
Eric Kirkwood (422201?), 22nd July, 1948, Keith Richard
Sursby Tymms (412042) 23rd Juky, 1948, Stephen Alexander
Peter Bosci (82288) Hazle Bede Kirk (36476), George
Campbell McKillop (431818), 26th July, 1948, Colin Lovat
Fraser (438559) Frank John Sauerberg (438368) 27th
July, 1948, Gordon Hunter Hall (431363), Brian Gerard
Luscombe (418669), Ian Alfred Pederson, D.F.C. (431026),
28th July, 1948, David Merivale Drury, D.F.M. (430363),
Gilbert Walter Squires (8980), 30th July, 1948, Alan
Frederick Wailes (424240), 2nd August, 1948, Fernao eruao
Henrique De Carvalho (443998), Douglas Alexander Jolly,
D.F.C. (432198), Alan David Watt (434860), 3rd. August,
1948, Robert Dowell (418361), 4th August, 1948, Ross
Dempsey Blanchard (417790), 5th August, 1948, Richard
Gordon Goldring (423529), 6th August, 1948, Frederick
Charles Evans (441852), Ian Hamilton Grant (409968), 9th
August, 1948, Alan Maxwell Coventry (410954), 10th August,
1948, Kevin John O'Connor (419098), George Ernest Patterson
(421545), 11th August, 1948, Charles Robert Neilson
(410558), Geoffrey Davenport Rosman (417121), 12th August,
1948, Russell Henderson Watts (431983), 13th August, 1948,
Allan Francis McGuire (415172), 16th August, 1948, John
Denton Holgate (444795), John Lindsay Venning (417911),
17th August, 1948, Lawrence Edward Formby (423698),
Jeffrey Frank Reidy (419217), 19th August, 1948, John
Phillip Allan (439859), Eric Charles Thacker (418892), 20th
August, 1948, Lester Cox (420559), 21st August, 1948,
William Frederick Nicholls (431735), Reginald Henry Young
(403086), 23rd August, 1948, Robert Alfred Cowley (434185),
Desmond Eric Seymour-Bennett (443621), John Vernon
Wheeler (408900), 24th August, 1948, Arthur William Gahan
(40906), 31st August, 1948; (Pilot Officer), Wilfred Douglas
Kentish (42357), 8th June, 1948, Nicholas Sticpewich
(443441), 21st June, 1948, Geoffrey Garratt (432067), 9th
July, 1948.
Howard Ewins (60529) is appointed to a commission with
the rank of Pilot Officer, 4th August, 1948, whilst performing
duties with the Air Training Corps.
The surname included in the notification regarding Tem-
porary Flight Lieutenant Patrick Vincent McDad, D.F.C.
(40300), as approved in Executive Council Minute No. 47
of 1948, and which appeared in Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette, No. 148, dated 21st October, 1948, is amended to
read McDade.
Technical Branch.
The following former officers are appointed to commissions
with the ranks indicated:—(Temporary Squadron Leader)
Charles Albert Howe (263660), 9th June, 1948, Oswald
Mortimer Kelsey (283313), 30th June, 1948, William Felix
Mullen (251034), 14th July, 1948, Ray Lawrance Harris
(252710), 26th July, 1948; (Temporary Flight Lieutenant)
Henry Sylvester Crapper (12838), 7th July, 1948, Clarence
Steel Roxby (1069), 21st July, 1948; (Flying Officer) Law-
rence Keith Pettit (68139), 4th June, 1948, Roger Bush
(15326), 30th July, 1948.
Equipment Bbanch.
The following former officers are appointed to commissions
with the ranks indicated:—(Honorary Wing Commander)
Bernard Alwyn Brogan, 13th July, 1948; (Temporary Squad
ron Leader) Reginald James Barrett (261672), 22nd July,
1948; (Temporary Flight Lieutenant) Arnold Guy White
(276264), 7th May, 1948; (Flying Officer) Edwin John
Smith (139838), 24th May, 1948, Cyril Welch (277265), 31st
May, 1948, Norman Frank Barrow (129839), 4th June, 1948,
Atliol Percival Jolly (18078), 14th July, 1948.
The surname included in the notification regarding Tem
porary Squadron Leader John Yeatman (266324), as approved
in Executive Council Minute No. 47 of 1948, and which
appeared in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. 148,
dated 21st October, 1948, is amended to read Yeaman.
Medical Branch.
Ex Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Roy McKenna (277093) is
appointed to a commission with the rank of Flight Lieutenant,
21st July, 1948.
Special Duties Branch.
The following former officers are appointed to commis
sions with the ranks indicated:—(Temporary Squadron
Leaders) Edgar William Holness, D.S.C. (261003), 19th
May, 1948, Walter Davis Hardy (253763), 5th July, 1948,
Robert Henry Barwell (281995), 12th July, 1948, Frederick
Herbert Spencer Brain (202049), 20th July, 1048, Harold
Dickin Gmejtt (201743), 27tlx July, 1948, Charles Churchill
Palmer (252168), Gordon D'Arcy Wainwright (281031), 9th
August, 1948, (Temporary Flight Lieutenant) Malcolm
Edward McAnna (416974), 18th June, 1948, John Barry
Maltman (274292), 24th June, 1948, Donald Owner (263808),
9th July, 1948, Jack Francis Mitchell (250746), 15th July,
1948, Leslie Francis Sims (256233), 19th July, 1948, Joseph
Hill Starr (272024), 20th July, 1948, Frederick George Allan
Robins (265594), Eklward Albert Way (261847), 21st July,
1948, Christopher James Rainbow (253106), 22nd July,
1948, Walter Harold Luxton (400133), 23rd July, 1948,
Philip Henry Napolean Opas (255040), 5th August, 1948,
Arthur Russell Pritchard (266508), 6th August, 1948, Henry
James Lennon (33513), 26th August, 1948; (Flying Officers)
Cecil Arthur Earl (265117), 12th May, 1948, Alexander George
Colqulioun (31390), 17th May, 1948, Robert Lumsden Davis
(255125), 1st July, 1948, James Erskine Thom (10923),
6th July, 1948, Thomas Douglas Brodie (1017), 11th July.
1948, Douglas Hugh Trigg (419577), 14th July, 1948, John
Francis Carlos Stretch (432902), 21st July, 1948, Kenneth
Frank Bacon (12283), 22nd July, 1948, Eric George Trembath
(5982G), 27th July, 1948, Harry Colin Green (14085), 6th
August, 1948, Henry Ross Rayner (60024), 10th August,
1948, Robert Addison (49906), 13th August, 1948; (Pilot
Officers) Jack Vander-Velde (6731), 16tli July, 1948, Erwell
James Madder (4341), 12th August, 1948, John Nicholl
Hollway (257703), 14th August, 1948.
Vincent Edward Grogan (267846) is appointed to a com
mission with the rank of Pilot Officer, 9th August, 1948, whilst
performing duties with the Air Training Corps.
Chaplains Branch.
The following former Chaplains are appointed to commis
sions with the rank of Chaplain in the classes indicated:—
(Second Class) James Frederick McKay, 10th September,
1948, (Third Class) Arthur Alexander Adam, Kenneth Charles
Walter B'eckett, Victor William Deakin, Eric Keith Ditterich,
Arthur Henry Michell, George Nash, Esmond Walter Cecil
New, Guy Lister Walker, 10th September, 1948, Gordon John
Apsey, Gordon Cornish, Robert Edward Davies, Percy Sands,
Walter Bryan Ward, 12th October, 1948, (Fourth Class)
Ronald Walter Albiston, William Ellis, Ronald Howe, Alex
ander Johnstone Wilson McAllister, Rhys Albion Miller,
Arthur Lex Robinson, Edward Benjamin Robinson, Neil
Robert Scott, 10th September, 1948, Frank Bromley, Frederick
George Bush, Dunn Donald Kinglake, Herbert Arthur John
Rubens Norton, Charles Loddiges Oliver, Charles Henry
Sherlock, Albert David Thorpe, James Edward Wheatley,
David Henry Wicking. Alexander Mclver Wright, 12th
October, 1948.— (Ex. Min. No. 58—Approved 8th December,
1948.)
ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD, Minister for Air.
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