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T*He London Gazette, 26 'March, 1915. 2999 T*HE LONDON GAZETTE, 26 'MARCH, 1915. 2999 5th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment. 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. Samuel Francis Henderson Mackay to be . Gilbert Wheatpn Fox to be Second Lieu- Second Lieutenant. Dated 7th February, tenant. Dated 1st February, 1915. 1915. Hugh Sudell Bloomer to be Second Lieu- Thomas Edgar Lancaster to be Second , tenant. Dated 18th February, 1915. Lieutenant. Dated 7th March, 1915. ; James Stanley Whitehead to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 18th February,'1915. 5th Battalion, The -Prince of Wales'.s Volun- teers (South Lancashire Regiment). 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment? the Lieutenant Jamesi O'Connor to be Captain \ undermentioned to be Second Lieutenants. (temporary). Dated 1st March, 1915. I Dated 27.th March, 1915 : — Lieutenant Alec H. W. Dennis, from the! Private Charles James Bryan. Private Henry Norman Kay. Unattached List for the Territorial Force, ; 1 .; tp be Lieutenant (temporary) Dated 27th i ,Private Coutts Bewley Douglas , from 6th March, '1915. " • I Battalion, Manchester Regiment. • • * | . Private Carl Sutcliffe Wood. 6th Battalion, The Essex. Regiment; Captain } Harold P.. Alexander to be Major (tempo- ' 3th\ Battalion, Manchester-Regiment. rary). Dated 15th March, 1915. i P.ercy Parker Fielding to be Second Lieu- 8th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Essex Regiment; tenant. Dated 20th January, 1915..' Serjeant William Tyson to be Second Lieu- Private Francis Cyril Hampson, from 6th tenant. Dated 27th March, 1915. Battalion, Manchester Regiment,' to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 27th. March, 5th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Not- 1915.. tinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment); Serjeant James Percival Grove, from 7th Private Robert Boyd Burley, from the 10th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool. Regi- (Scottish) Battalion, The King's1 (Liverpool ment)', to be.Second Lieutenant. Dated 27th Regiment), to be Second Lieutenant. Dated March, 1915. 27th March, 1915. 6th Battalion, The Prince, of W ales's (North 6th Battalion., The Sherwood Foresters (Not- Staffordshire Regiment); . Lance-Cprporal tingthamshire\ and -Derbyshire Regiment); William Stuart Lowe, from, .the 5th. Bat- the undermentioned to be Second Lieu- talion, North Staffordshire Regiment, to be tenants : — '. Second Lieutenant. Dated. 27th March, Melvyn Robert Kemp Bion. Dated 10th : 1915. ' ' March, 1915. Private William Jackson, from the Inns j 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry'. of Court Officers Training Corps. Dated 27th March, 1915. - Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Leonard Brown. Dated 27th ' The Honourable William Lyonel Vane, Re- .March, 1915. tired List (late 6th Battalion, Durham Light Thomas Greaves. Dated 27th March, Infantry), to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated ' 1915.' ; 21st March, 1915. Private William Albert Dent, from the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, The Sherwood Northern Cyclist Battalion, to be Second Foresters (Nottinghamshirt and Derbyshire : Lieutenant. Dated 27th March, 1915. Regiment). •. ' i 7th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry. Quartermaster and Honorary Major William H. Newham resigns his commission, Captain Charles W. Hiues to be Major. with permission to retain his rank and to . Dated 1st February, 1915. wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 27th The promotion to Captain of Lieutenant March, 1915. j Harold Jacks, bears date llth November, Private Charles Edwin Frederick O'Kell, 1914, and not as stated in the London .from the 10th Battalion, The King's (Liver- Gazette of the 7th December, 1914. pool Regiment), to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 27th March, 1915. 8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry. 5th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment; the Second Lieutenant William Boyd is ab- 'undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains.1 .sorbed into the establishment. Dated 27th "Dated 1st March, 1915 :-^- March, 1915. Dudley D. Winterbottom. Serjeant Herbert Johnson to be Second Morris Bryham. Lieutenant. Dated 27th March, 1915. John Blair to be Second Lieutenant. The undermentioned Second Lieutenants; Dated 2nd March, 1915. to -be. Lieutenants. Dated 1st March, 7th (Blythsivood) Battalion, The Highland S. Lund. Light Infantry; Second Lieutenant William Charles Phethean. | J. Pickersgill resigns his commission: Dated .... | . .27th March, 1915. Private Harry Douglas Smith, from 6thJ Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, to be| • 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders .(Ross- Second Lieutenant. Dated 27th March,] .. r'shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's);, Captain 1915. ' " and "Honorary Major Daniel C. Cormack to.
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