Victor A. Couper, Half-pay List. Dated 1st December, 1909.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Atherton ff. Powell, D.S.O., Half-pay List, retires on retired pay. Dated 4th December, 1909.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander B. Hamilton, on completion of his period of service on the Staff, is placed on the Half-pay List. Dated 9th November, 1909.
Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) George S. Haines, Commandant, Detention Barracks, Aldershot, will retain the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel while employed in inspecting the Military Prisons and Detention Barracks in India.
Captain George B. Ollivant, Half-pay List, resigns his Commission, Dated 4th December, 1909.
The undermentioned officers of the Citizen Forces of Australia are granted local rank in the Army as under, while serving with Imperial Troops in the United Kingdom or in India, and to have seniority as from the dates stated against their names, i.e., the date of their present rank in the Australian Commonwealth Forces:—
To be local Colonel:—
Colonel John Francis Flewell-Smith, V.D., Commanding Queensland Infantry Brigade. Dated 6th December, 19u7.
To be local Major:—
Major Robert St. Julien Pearce, Australian Field Artillery. Dated 1st July, 1903.
To be local Captains :—
Captain Edward Castle Oldham, 10th Australian Infantry Regiment. Dated 1st July, 1906.
Captain Maynard Hayes Cruickshank, Derwent Regiment (Tasmania). Dated 31st May, 1907.
3rd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment, Lieutenant Herbert C. C. Batten to be Captain. Dated 4th November, 1909.
SPECIAL RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
Cavalry.
Supplementary List, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars, Lieutenant Robert Spear Hudson, from the Unattached List, Territorial Force, and the Oxford University Officers Training Corps, to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 4th December, 1909.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Supplementary List, Royal Field Artillery, The undermentioned Captains are transferred, retaining their rank and seniority. Dated 4th December, 1909:—
Edmond B. Place, from The Limerick City Royal Field Reserve Artillery.
Arnold J. Marten, from The Sussex Royal Field Reserve Artillery.
Lieutenant Charles Arthur Gerald O'Malley, retired pay, late Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery, to be Lieutenant, under the provisions of Article 510, Royal Warrant for Pay and Promotion, 1907, with seniority as from 21st December, 1903. Dated 4th December, 1909.
The Cardigan Royal Field Reserve Artillery, Captain Thomas 0. R. Sladen is granted the honorary rank of Major. Dated 31st March, 1909.
Infantry.
3rd Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Second Lieutenant (on probation) Bernard de L. Cazenove is confirmed in his rank.
4th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Joscelyn Morton Lucas to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 4th December, 1909.
7th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Captain Cyril H. Wickham, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), to be Adjutant, vice L. Brandreth. Dated 16th November, 1909.
3rd Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment, Captain William P. Lousada resigns his Commission. Dated 4th December, 1909.
3rd Battalion, The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry) Major and Honorary Lieuteuant-Colonel John W. H. Marshall-West resigns his Commission, and is granted permission to retain his rank, and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 4th December, 1909.
Captain Charles W. Daubeny resigns his Commission. Dated 4th December, 1909.
3rd Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Second Lieutenant Osborne G. de Courcy Baldwin to be Lieutenant. Dated 5th November, 1909.
Captain Harold Arthur Faulkner Wilkinson, West Australian Infantry Regiment. Dated 6th May, 1904.
4th Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Montague Gerald Bertram Bennett to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 20th October, 1909.
4th Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment, Leonard Henry Graystone Andrews to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 21st October, 1909.
3rd Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Captain Basil John Blenkinsopp Coulson, retired pay, late The King's Own Scottish Borderers, to be Captain, under the provisions of Article 510, Royal Warrant for Pay and Promotion, 1907. Dated 4th December, 1909.
3rd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, Anthony Napier Fane Spicer to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 27th October,1909.
3rd Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), Second Lieutenant (on probation) Sheldon A. Gledstanes is confirmed in his rank.
3rd Battalion, The Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), Second Lieutenant (on probtion) Colin K. Anderson is confirmed in his rank.
