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THE LONDON GAZETTE, 12 JANUAEY, 1915. William George Stewart Grant 390 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 12 JANUAEY, 1915. William George Stewart Grant. Gazette. Herbert Stewart Wilson, 3rd Battalion, 8th December, 1914. Somerset Light Infantry. Harold Cbldstream Hicks. Gazette, 29th Helenus Macaulay Robertson, 3rd Bat- December, 1914. talion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The undermentioned to be temporary George Alexander Heath, Gloucester Regi- Quartermasters, with the honorary rank of ment (Supplementary List). Henry Groom-Johnson, 5th Battalion, Lieutenant: — Worcester Regiment. ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLEBY. Eric Lewis Lazarus, 6th Battalion, Wor- Temporary Quartermaster and Honorary cester Regiment. Lieutenant Arthur Hatcher, from 9th John William Gates Adlard, 6th Batta- Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. lion, Worcester Regiment. Frederick Shepherd. Edward Vere Birch-Reynardson, 3rd Bat- William Catherwood. talion, East Surrey Regiment. Dated 4th Dated 13th January, 1915. January, 1915. Maurice Alfred Thompson, 3rd Battalion,. INFANTBY. Royal Sussex Regiment. William Alan Burton. Dated 3rd Robert Stewart Blucke, 3rd Battalion, November, 1914. Dorset Regiment. Dated 9th January, 1915. William Poole. Dated 3rd December, Wilfred Brian Compton Hall, 3rd Batta- 1914.. lion, Royal West Kent Regiment. John Bear. Dated 5th January, 1915. Arthur Maurice Warlow, 3rd Battalion,. George Ballantine. Dated 9th January, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. 1915. Robert Murray Clarkson, 4th Battalion,. Temporary Quartermaster and Honorary Highland Light Infantry. Lieutenant Lewis Robertson relinquishes John Maxwell Myles Laing, 4th Batta- his commission. Dated 9th January, 1915. lion, Highland Light Infantry. John George Wood, 3rd Battalion, Sea- forth Highlanders. Andrew St. Clair Jameson, 3rd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. SPECIAL RESERVE OF OFFICERS. Joseph William Edmund Dickson, 3rd' CAVALBY. Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. South Irish Horse, The undermentioned to be Ian Charles McPherson, 3rd Battalion,. Second Lieutenant, on probation: — Gordon Highlanders. Dated 13th January, 1915. The undermentioned to be Second Lieu- James Stanley Matthews. tenants, on probation: — r*"~~~~ Dated 13th January, 1915, unless otherwise Royal Field Artillery, The undermentioned stated. Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be John Harvey Cochrane, 3rd Battalion,. Second Lieutenants, on probation: — Royal Scots. Dated 13th January, 1915. Leonard Simpson, 3rd Battalion, Royal Harry Cecil Ovens Lawrie. West Surrey Regiment. John Wallis Woodroffe. Rowland Miles Philipson Philipson-Stow, 3rd Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment. FOOT GUABDS. Percival Stuart Emerton, 4th Battalion,. Coldstream Guards, The undermentioned to be Royal Warwick Regiment. Second Lieutenant, on probation: — Ronald Murray Large, 7th Battalion, Cyril Hackett Wilkinson. Dated 5th Royal Fusiliers. January, 1915. Fenton Ellis Stanley Phillips, 3rd Bat- talion, Devonshire Regiment. Scots Guards, The undermentioned ex-Cadet Arthur Frederick Kemble, 3rd Battalion, of the Officers Training Corps to be Second Suffolk Regiment. Dated 5th January, 1915. Lieutenant, on probation : — Thomas Josceline Gordon Reynolds, 4tlr Guy Spearman Armstrong. Dated 13th Battalion, Bedford Regiment. January, 1915. Richard Herbert Marryatt, 5th Bat- talion, Worcester Regiment. The undermentioned to be Second Lieu- Francis James Martin, 6th Battalion, tenant, on probation: — Worcester Regiment. William Godfrey Willoughby Garforth. Cecil Charles Prynn, 3rd Battalion, Duke- Dated 13th January, 1915. of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Irish Guards, The undermentioned ex-Cadet of Robert Bell Webster, 3rd Battalion, Dor- the Officers Training Corps to be Second set Regiment. Lieutenant, on probation: — Claude Patrick Bevan Sawyer, 3rd Bat- Charles Richard Tisdall. Daled 22nd De- talion, Dorset Regiment. Dated 9th Janu- cember, 1914. ary, 1915. Laurence Archibald Woodley, 3rd Bat- INFANTRY. talion, Dorset Regiment. The undermentioned Cadets and ex-Cadets Trillia Hinds, 3rd Battalion, Northamp- of the Officers Training Corps to be Second tonshire Regiment. Lieutenants, on probation : — Henry Abrahall Robinson, 3rd Battalion, Shropshire Light Infantry. Dated 2nd Dated 13th January, 1915, unless otherwise January, 1915. stated. Wifiiam West Hardwick, 5th Battalion,. William Oswell Raikes, 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Dated 6th January,. East Kent Regiment. 1915..
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