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The Edinburgh Gazette, January 6, 1930. It THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, JANUARY 6, 1930. IT Lieutenant-Colonel Rees Thomas Price, T.D., Major Ernest George Baker, The Priacess Royal Engineers, Territorial Army, Com- Beatrice's (Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy mander, Royal Engineers, 53rd (Welsh) Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. Division, Territorial Army. (Captain, retired pay, Regular Army Reserve Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward of Officers, The Hampshire Regiment.) Birnie Reid, Officer Commanding, 51sb Major George Sheldon Bayliss, 73rd Anti-Air- (Highland) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps craft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial of Signals, Territorial Army. Arm). Major David St. Clair Riley, E.D., District Captain Noel Gordon Blake, 1st Battalkm Officer, No. 6 Military District Defence The Herefordshire Regiment, Territorial Force, Southern Rhodesia. Army. (Lieutenant, Regular Army Reserve Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace Roderick Duncan of Officers, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Robertson, M.C., T.D., Officer Command- Regiment).) ing, 86th (East Anglian) (Herts Yeomanry) Major (Commissary) John Stacey Bolton, re- Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial tired, late India Miscellaneous List, late Per- Army. sonal Assistant to the Master-General of the- Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Ordnance, Headquarters of the Army in Keir Rodger, T.D., Officer Commanding, India. 7th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Captain (Quarter-Master) Leonard Brindlev Rifles), Territorial Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) Douglas Wise Richardson Scott, T.D., The York- Buchanan, Indian Army Corps of Clerks. shire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Major Edward Stephen Cadic, Thames and Wales's Own), Yeomanry, Territorial Army. Med\\ay Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Eric Territorial Army. Ashley Shipton, M.C., T.D., Officer Com- Major Basil Charles Durkin, late Royal Army manding, 90th (City of London) Field Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, late Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Lieutenant-Colonel Alick Drummond Buchanan Services, 43rd (Wessex) Division, Territorial Smith, Officer Commanding, 5th-7th Army. (Buchan, Mar arid Mearns) Battalion, The No. 736609 Warrant Officer Class II., Battery Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army. Sergeant-Major Walter Victor Dyson, 90th. Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Frank Smith, M.C., (City of London) Field Brigade, Royal Australian Corps of Signals, Officer Com- Artillery, Territorial Army. manding Signals 2nd Division, 2nd Military Second Lieutenant Alexander Thomson. Edgar,. • District, Australian Military Forces. 1st (Perak) Battalion, Federated Malay lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John States Volunteer Force. Snowden Spencer, M.C., T.D.^ Officer Com- Jemadar Kansipersad Gurung, 2nd Battalion, manding, 6th Battalion, The Duke of Well- 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), ington's Regiment (West Riding), Territorial Indian Army. Army. Liautentant (local Captain) John Winthrop Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Hackett, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Douglas Suteliffe, D.S.O., Officer Com- Squadron Officer, Trans-Jordan Frontier manding, 10th (3rd City of London) Force. Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of Major Kenneth Hargreaves, 66th (Leeds Rifles, Loftdon Reginieot), Territorial Army. The West Yorkshire Regiment) Antt-Aircraft Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey "George Hetley Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. Symes, T.D., Officer Commanding, Dorset- Major Alfred Ernest Heald, Royal Army shire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Terri- Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, DepiAp torial Army. Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, 42nd Major Lechmere Cay Thomas, M.C., The (East Lancashire) Division, Territorial Army. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Officer Lieutenant Adrian Everard Hedley, 4th Cdmmanding, 2nd Battalion, The Sing's Battalion, The Royal Northumberland African Rifles. Fusiliers, Territorial Army. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Major Arthur Hemsley, T.D., 1st Anti-Airorafifc Barker Ullman, M.C., T.D., Territorial Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Army, late Officer Commanding, 64th (7th Territorial Army. London) Field Brigade*, Royal Artillery, Quarter-Master and Honorary Captain John Territorial Army. Edward Hendry, Australian Instracttotal lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Oharles Corps, Instiuctor, School of Artillery, Walker, T.D., retired, late Officer Command- Sydney, Australian Military Forces. ing, 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Royal Major ^Frank Wilkinson Hudson, B Sc., *Sod Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. (East Lancashire) Divisional Engineers, Major Douglas, Leslie Oswald Woods, 2nd Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Major Edward William -Claude Hurford, ftit Army, attached South XVaziristan Scouts. (Glamorgan) Battalion, The Welch Regiment, Territorial Army. !h> "be Members of the Military Division of the Quarter-Master and Honorary Lieutenant John said Most Excellent Order:— Hutchison, Australian Instructional Gaqps, Captain Moihamed Noor bin Shaik Ahmad, Staff Officer, Rifle Clubs, ^nd Military Dis- Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer trict, Australian Military Forces. Cocpa, 3rd Battalion, Straits -Settlement Major (Quarter-Master) William Jones, T D » Volunteer Force. Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Ajtny- 2.
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