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The London Gazette, November 3, 1896 6006 THE LONDON GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 3, 1896. Lieutenant H. C. B. Hopkuison, Seaforth High- Sergeant F. Ede, Royal Marine Artillery, landers, 12th Sudanese. special service. Lieutenant A. R. Hoskins, North Staffordshire (Signed) HERBERT KITCHENER, Regiment, 9th Sudanese. Sirdar. Special Service. To Major-General Knowles, C.B., Second Lieutenant T. H. Healey, Cameron General Officer Commanding in Egypt. Highlanders, Transport Department. Major D. F. Lewis, Cheshire Regiment, Com- manding 1st Infantry Brigade. Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace, Major F. W. Kitchener, West Yorkshire Regi- November 3, 1893. ment, Director of Transport IVrOTICE is hereby given, that the State Brevet Major E. R. Owen, D.S.O., Lancashire _Li Apartments of Windsor Casile will lie Fusiliers (since dead), with Irregulars. closed on and after Saturday next, 7th instant, Brevet Major A. B. Thruston, Oxfordshire until further orders. Light Infantry, with Irregulars. Major C. G. Martyr, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, A.A.G-., Head-Quarters' Staff. Chancery of the Poyal Victorian Order. Major W. E. T. Wallace, Gloucester Regiment, St. Jama's Palace, October 31, 1896. Commanding 15th Battalion, THE Queen has been graciously pleased to Captain L. C. Sherer, Leicester Regiment, approve of the following promotion in, und Transport Department. appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order :— Captain B. R. Mitford, Surrey Regiment, Brigade Major 2nd Brigade. To be an Honorary Kitiyht Grand Cress. Captain S. Willcock, Gloucester Regiment, Count Paul Benkend-.irf, Honorary K.C.V.O., loth Battalion. Master of the Household of His Imperial Captain E. M. Jackson, Indian Staff Corps, llth Majesty the Emperor of Rutsia. Sudanese. To be an Honorary Commander. Lieutenant J. H. G-.'M. Lord Athlunmey, Cold- Mr. Nicolas Dubrcuil Echapparre, Secretary at stream. G-uards, Staff Officer, Infantry Division. the Chancery of the Minister of the Russian Lieutenant E. FitzClarence, Dorset Regiment, Imperial Court. 10th Sudanese. To be a Mtmber of the Fourth Class. Lieutenant Lord E. H. Cecil, Grenadier Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Davidson, half-pay, Aide-de-Camp. Equerry to the Queen. Army Service Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Rogers, Director of To be Honorary Members of the Fourth Class. Supplies. Mr. Emile Gilbert Dietze, Ancien Commissaire Quarter-Master (Hon. Captain) W. H. Drage, Special de la Police des Chemins-de -fer D.'A.A.G., Head-Quarter Staff. frangais. Lieutenant C. E. G. Blunt, Staff Officer of Mr. Pierre de Ratchkovsky, Officer for Special Supplies. Missions at the Russian State Police Depart- Lieutenant F. J. L. Howard, Staff Officer of ment. Supplies. Captain Louis Rodcndorf, of tie Russian Feld- Medical Staff. jager's Corps. Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel J. Gallwey, M.D., To be an Honorary Member of the Fifth Class. Principal Medical Officer. Mr. Arcadi Harting, Officer'for Special Missions "Surgeon-Major G. D. Hunter, Senior Medical at the Russian State Police Department. Officer. Surgeon-Captain R. H. Penton, Medical Staff. Surgeon-Captain H. E. H. Smith, Medical War Office, November 3, 1896. Staff. THE Queen has been graciously pleased to Surgeon-Captain C. S. Spong, Medical Staff. give orders for the following appointments to the "Surgeon-Captain H. N. Dunn, M.B., Medical Distinguished Service Order, in recognition of Staff. the services of the undermentioned Officers during 'Surgeon Captain J. E. Trask, Medical Staff the recent operations against slave-trading Arabs (since dead). in the Central African Protectorate: Veterinary Department, To be Companions of the Distinguished Ser- .Veterinary-Captain G. R. Griffith, Principal vice Order, viz.:— Veterinary Surgeon. Captain and Brevet Major George Glencairn Veterinary Lieutenant W. D. Smith, special Cunningham, the Derbyshire Regiment. service. Captain William Pulteney Pulteney, the Scots List of Warrant Officers and Non-cominissioned Guards. Officers deserving of mention:— Lieutenant Cecil Foster Seymour Vandeleur, the .Staff Sergeant Major W. E. Bailey, Army Scots Guards. Service Corps, Egyptian Army. Squadron Sergeant Major Blake, 17th Lancers, Egyptian Army. War Office, November 3, 1896. ' Colour-Sergeant McKey, Grenadier Guards, THE Queen has been graciously pleased to Egyptian Army. confer the Volunteer Officers' Decoration upon Colour - Sergeant Flint, Dorset Regiment, Egyptian Army. the undermentioned Officers of the Volunteer Force, who have, been duly recommended for Colour - Sergeant Kelham, East Kent Regi- ment, Egyptian Army. the same under the terms of the Royal Warrant, Sergeant Buckingham, Grenadier Guards, dated-25th July, 1892 :— Egyptian Army. NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT. Sergeant Russell, Grenadier Guards, Egyptian ROYAL ENGINEERS (VOLUNTEERS). Army. • 1st West Biding of Yorkshire (Sheffield). •t Sergeant Brockway, Grenadier Guards, Egyp- Quartermaster and Honorary. Captain John tian Army. William Dewsnap..
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