THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 SEPTEMBEE, 1915. 9433

The Railway Rates and Charges No. 25 Lieutenant Robert Ernest Simpson has {North British Railway, &c.) Order Confirma- been placed on the Retired List. Dated tion Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Viet., c. 63). 8th September, 1915. The Railway Rates and Charges No. 26 (Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway, &c.) Order Confirmation Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Viet., «. 64). Admiralty, 2Qth September, 1915. The undermentioned Gentlemen have been NOTICE. entered as Engineer-Lieutenants for tempo- rary service in His Majesty's Fleet: — DEFENCE OF THE REALM (LIQUOR James Edward McCormick. CONTROL). William Black. Notice of an amending Order of the Central Dated 17th September, 1915. Control Board (Liquor Trafiic). Notice is hereby given that the Central The undermentioned Gentlemen have been •Control Board (Liquor Traffic), in pursuance entered as Engineer Sub-Lieutenants for tem- of the powers conferred upon them by the porary service in His Majesty's Fleet: — Acts and Regulations relating to the Defence of the Realm, have issued an Amending Order, Harry Kendall Drewry. dated the 21st September, 1915, so far as affects Arthur William Samuel Pring. the description of Peterhead and District as Eric Treeve Champness. defined in the Order of the Board dated the Dated 17th September, 1915. 17th September, 1915, relating to the Scotland, Northern, Area. Gunner William Isaac Gale has been promoted Copies of the above amending Order can be to the rank of Chief Gunner on the Retired obtained on application to the Secretary, List of His Majesty's Fleet. Dated 22nd Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic), 76, August, 1915. Strand, London, W.C. Royal Naval Division. To be temporary Lieutenant, R.M. John Hanson Lawson. Dated 22nd Admiralty, 2&th September, 1915. November, 1914. The KING has been graciously pleased to Colonel Charles Gisborne Brittan, Royal give orders for the appointment of the under- Marine Light Infantry (Reserved List), to mentioned Officer to be a Companion of the command the 7th Reserve Battalion of the Distinguished Service Order: — Royal Naval Division. Dated 2fth Sep- Lieutenant Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, tember, 1915. Royal Navy.

For his services in the operations in the Cameroons. Lieutenant Hamilton was in charge of a river flotilla which drove the Admiralty, 21st September, 1915. Germans out of Dehane at the end of Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Thomas December, 1914. He was later in command George Procter has this day been promoted of the detachment which transported a naval to the rank of Engineer Commander in His gun 160 miles up the lower reaches of the Majesty's Fleet. Niger river, thence 480 miles up the Benue river and 60 miles by land, and thus con- Royal Marine Light Infantry. tributed in large measure to the success of the operations which culminated in the Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis surrender of Garua on the 10th June, 1915. Stratford Tollemache Halliday, V.C., C.B., to be Lieutenant-Colonel on the Seconded List, vice Evelegh, killed in action. Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gran- ville Mackay Heriot, D.S.O., to be Lieu- Admiralty, 21st September, 1915. tenant-Colonel, vice Halliday, seconded. The KING has been graciously pleased to Captain Gerald Christopher Rooney to be confer the Royal Naval Reserve Officers' Major, vice Heriot, promoted. Decoration on Lieutenant-Commander William All dated 14th July, 1915. Edgar Kelway. Captain Alfred Davis Welch, supernumerary, is absorbed in the establishment, vice Rooney, promoted. Dated 14th July, 1915. Admiralty, 18t7i September, 1915. Royal Marines. In accordance with the Regulations for the Royal Naval Reserve— The undermentioned to be probationary Second Lieutenant: — Lieutenant Robert Pennington-Williams has been placed on the Retired List. Dated Robert Victor Stewart Johnstoiie. Dated 8th September, 1915. 7th September, 1915.