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The London Gazette, 4 September, 1914. 7015 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 4 SEPTEMBER, 1914. 7015 .Attached to units other thorn- Medical Units. Lieutenant R. Day, 1st West Riding Surgeon-Major Henry Waite, from the Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Northern Command Signal Companies, Lieutenant G. N. Fowler, 3rd West Royal Engineers (Army Troops), to be Riding Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Major. Dated 5th September, 1914. Lieutenant the Honourable A. G. Child- Villiers, Oxfordshire Yeomanry. VETERINARY CORPS. Lieutenant W. E. Bigge, Northumberland Frederick Douthwaite (late Veterinary (Hussars) Yeomanry. Captain, Imperial Yeomanry), to be Cap- Second Lieutenant J. T. Colledge, Glou- tain. Dated 5th September, 1914. cester Yeomanry. Second Lieutenant G. R. P. Llewellyn, The date of appointment of Gerald \V. Glamorgan Yeomanry. .Bloxsome as a Lieutenant in the Army Veterinary Corps is 5th August, 1914, and Lieutenant L. H. Adams, 1st Wessex -.not as stated in the London Gazette of the Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. 18th August, 1914. Second Lieutenant E. W. S., Marquis of Brychm Jeffry Rees to be Lieutenant. Hartington, Derbyshire Yeomanry. Dated 5th September, 1914. Second Lieutenant M. Powell, Surrey Yeomanry. Second Lieutenant E. H. Mitchell, 4th CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal FORCE. Field Artillery. The Reverend Frederick B. B. Whitting- Captain A. F. Hess, 8th Battalion, The ton, Fourth Class Chaplain to the Territorial Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Force, ranking as Captain, to be advanced Regiment). Third Class Chaplain to the Territorial Captain C. C. M. Kennedy, 1st Battalion, Force, ranking as Major. Dated 21st Feb- The Hertfordshire Regiment. ruary, 1913. Lieutenant H. B. Spens, 5th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 'Church of England. Lieutenant F. H. Garraway, llth (County . The Venerable the Honourable Kenneth of London) Battalion,. The London Regi- .Francis Gibbs, D.D., Archdeacon of St. ment (Finsbury Rifles). Albans, to be Fourth Class Chaplain to the Lieutenant A. B. Turner, 6th Battalion, Territorial Force, ranking ag Captain. The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Dated 8th July, 1914. Lieutenant H. M. Goldsmith, 5th Batta- The Reverend John Albert Douglas to be lion, The Devonshire Regiment. "Fourth Class Chaplain to the Territorial Lieutenant G. Smith, 6th Battalion, The Force, ranking as Captain. Dated 24th Gordon Highlanders. August, 1914. Lieutenant A. J. P. Mateer, 8th Batta- lion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). iUN ATTACHED LlST FOR THE TERRITORIAL Captain W. M. Baird, 9th- Battalion, FORCE. Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Second Lieutenant Geoffrey C. Williams Highlanders). is appointed to serve with the Bristol Lieutenant F. P. Marshall, 8th Battalion, University Contingent, Senior Division, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Officers Training Corps. Dated 5th August, Regiment). 1914. Lieutenant F. W. Bewsher, 5th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment MEMORANDA. (London Rifle Brigade). Lieutenant L. R. A. Gatehouse, 10th The undermentioned officers are seconded (Scottish) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool under the conditions of paragraph 112, Regiment). Territorial Force Regulations. Lieutenant J. N. Carson, 4th Battalion, Dated 5th August, 1914. The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regi- PERSONAL STAFF. -ment). Second Lieutenant D. A. R. Haddon, 9th Aides-de-Camp. Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regi- Captain P. C. F. de Paravicini, Lincoln- ment) . shire Yeomanry. Second Lieutenant H. L. Yonge, 5th Bat Captain E. N. Burton-Mackenzie, 2nd talion, The Essex Regiment. Lovat's Scouts Yeomanry. Captain the Honourable G. W. W. Bamp- Staff Captains. fylde, Royal North Devon Yeomanry. Major G." Stewart, Leicestershire Yeo- Lieutenant R. S. Reid, 1st Lowland manry. /Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Major A. P. Barry, West Somerset Yeo- Lieutenant H. J. Stevenson, Lothians and manry. "Border Horse Yeomanry. Major E. A. H. Bailey, 4th East Anglian Lieutenant Sir P. L. Brocklehurst, Bart., Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Derbyshire Yeomanry. Major E. Helme, Glamorgan Yeomanry. Lieutenant the Honourable W. G. A. Captain W. G. Porter, 1st Lowland •Ormsby-Gore, Shropshire Yeomanry. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Lieutenant S. 0. Shepherd, 2nd Highland Captain K. C. Brazier-Creagh, 3rd North 'Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Lieutenant J. F. Godman, 2nd London Captain C. Allen, 3rd West Riding . .Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Lieutenant R. C. G. Lyon, 2nd South . Captain S. C. Berry, Home Counties "Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. (Kent) Royal Garrison Artillery..
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