THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 1, 1900. 2761

Army Ordnance Deportment, Lieutenant- Dated 17th March. 1900 :— C. W. H. Tate, Ordnance Officer Second Class, Captain C. B. Scott, 3rd Battalion the Duke of to be Ordnance Officer First Class, with the Cornwall's Light . substantive rank of Colonel, on augmentation. Lieutenant C. P. Holroyd, t4th Battalion the Dated 1st April, 1900. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The undermentioned Ordnance Officers Fourth Lieutenant R. V. Hunt, 3rd Battalion the Duke Class, to be Ordnance Officers Third Class, on of Cornwall's Lijiht Infantry. augmentation. Dated 1st April, 1900 : — Dated 19th March, 1900:— Captain E. D. Caird, the Queen's Own (Royal Captain R. W. H. Woodburne, 3rd Battalion tie West Kent ). . Major H. D. E. Parsons, the Queen's (Royal Dated 24th March, 1900:— West Surrey Regiment). Captain L. C. E. Wyndham, 4th Battalion the Captain W. M. Tracy, the Queen's (Royal West . Surrey Regiment . Captain H. R. Ryder, 3rd Battalion the King's Major O. C. Sherwood, the West India Regi- Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). ment. Captain C. C. Scott, 4th Battalion the Durham Captain C. M. Mathew, D.S.O., the . Light Infantry. Lieutenant H. G. Woolf, 5th Battalion Princess Captain J. H. Hale, the East Lancashire Regi- Victoria's (). ment. Lieutenant W. A. T. Cole-Hamilton, 4th Batta- Captain H. A. Anley, the East Surrey Regiment. lipn Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers). Lieutenant H. A. Neild, 4th Battalion the East BREVET. Surrey Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter W. Ward, the East Lieutenant E. A. H. Fell, 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, to be Colonel. Dated Dorsetshire Regiment 29th April, 1900. Dated 1st April, 1900:— MEMORANDA. Lieutenant F. W. Earle, 3rd Battalion the Hampshire Regiment. The undermentioned promotions take place in succession to Lieutenant-General J. H. Hall, Second Lieutenant 0. M. T. Frost, 3rd Bat- retired. Dated 1st April, 1900 :— alion the , is granted the Major-General f local Lieutenant-General) Sir G. temporary rank of Second Lieutenant in the B. Wolseley, K.C.B., Commanding the Troops, Army whilst serving in . Dated Madras, to be Lieutenant-General. •24th March, 190^. Colonel W. F. Vptch, Assistant Director-General of Ordnance, Head-Quarters of the Army, to be RESERVE OF OFFICERS. Major-General. To be Captains. Dated 2nd May, 1900 :— Lieutenant G. T. Birch. The undermentioned promotions take place in Lieutenant H. M. J. McCance. succession to Lieutenant-General G. H. MoncriefT, To be Lieutenants. Dated 2nd May, 1900 : — retired. Dated 1st April, 1900 :— The Honourable Ivan Campbell, late Lieu- Major-General E. A. Gore to be Lieutenant- tenant the Queen's Own Cameron High- General. landers. Colonel (temporary Major-General) H. F. Grant, Arthur Henry Schlesinger, Gent., late Lieu- C.B., Inspect or-General of Cavalry in Great tenant the Londonderry Artillery. Britain and Ireland, to be Major-General. ARMY MEDICAL RESERVE OF Lieutenant-General B. L. Forster, Royal Artil- OFFICERS. lery, is placed on retired pay. Dated 1st May, Surgeon-Lieutenant Charles F. Spinks, 1st Dum- 1900. bartonshire Volunti er Rifle Corps, to be Colonel Arthur G. H. Church, half-pay, is Surgeon-Lieutenant. Dated 2nd May, 1^00. placed on retired pay. Dated 1st May, 1900. Lieutenant - Colonel C. K. Wood, Royal Engineers, is granted the local rank of Colonel in War Office, Pall Mall, South Africa whilst Chief Engineer to the Force 1st May, I'-OO. in Natal. Dated 2nd May, 1900. Major Donald MacDougall, half-pay, retires on The undermentioned Officers to l>e Second Lieu- retired pay. Dated 2nd May, 1900. tenants. Dated 21st April, 1900 :— The undermentioned Officers are granted the The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), local xank of Lieutenant-Colonel whilst employed Lieutenant Frederick George Theobald, from in command of of Mounted Infantry in 4th Battalion the East Surrey Regiment, in South Africa. Dated 5th February, 1900 : — succession to Lieutenant E. A. P. Vaughan, Major W. C. Ross, the Durham Light Infantry. died of wounds received in action. Captain and Brevet Major E. G. T. Bainhridge, Lieutenant Frank Cornewall Naper, from 3rd the Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment, in suc- cession to Lieutenant R. H. C Coe, killed in Captain and Brevet Major C. H. P. Carter, action. C.M.G., the (Lothian Regiment), is Lieutenant Eugene Von Brockdorff, from Royal granted the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel Malta Regiment of , vice A. P. C. H. whilst employed as Commandant of the southern Wade, killed in action. Nigeria Constabulary. Dated 1st January, 1900. Second Lieutenant Cyrill Henry Newcome Captain W. C. G. Heneker, the Con nought Hardinge, from 4th Battalion the Lincolnshire Rangers, is granted the local rank of Major whilst Reurnent, in succession to Lieutenant F. C. D. employed as Second in Command of the Southern Davidson, died of wounds received in action. Nigeria Constabulary. Dated 1st April, 1900. The Roy at Warwickshire Regiment, Lieutenant The undermentioned Officers are granted the Cosmos Charles Richard Nevill, from 4th Bat- temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Army whilst talion the Lincolnshire Regiment, in succession serving in South Africa :— to Lieutenant C. G. M. Blomfield, seconded.