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MILITARY HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCED PROMOTIONS

Many promotions and appointments are announced as follows in the military orders issued for today at Exhibition Park camp:

Lieuts. H. A. C. Breuls, C.O.T.C., and L. R. Shoebottoom, 7th Regiment, appointed to the Overseas Training Company, University of Toronto.

86th Battalion¹--To be major, Capt. G. C. Ferrie, 13th Regiment; to be captain, Lieut. R. F. Inch, 91st Regiment.

97th Battalion (American Legion)--Lieut. H. C. Billings transferred to 212th Battalion, Winnipeg. Lieut. F. R. Emerson Woodward, 21st Regiment, appointed provisionally to 97th Battalion.

116th Battalion--To be major, Capt. F. H. Moody, Q.O.R.; to be captain, Lieut. W. H. D. Sharpe, 10th R.G. [Royal Grenadiers]

119th Battalion--Lieut. G. E. Madden, 51st Regiment, permitted to resign.

123rd Battalion--Lieut. L. D. Lefroy permitted to resign.

125th Battalion--Appointment of Lieut. R. T. Brown, 38th Regiment, approved provisionally.

126th Battalion--Appointment of Lieut. F. W. Ott, 36th Regiment, approved provisionally.

147th Battalion--To be quartermaster with honourary rank of captain, Lieut. J. K. McLaughlin, 31st Regiment; to be medical officer with rank of captain, Lieut. D. E. Howes, A.M.C.; to be chaplain and honourary captain, H. S. Mullouney; to be machine gun officer, Lieut. J. E. Ritchie, 31st Regiment.

198th Buffs Battalion--To be major--Capt. E. M. Watts; to be lieutenants--Lieuts. H. N. Westwood, G.G.B.G. [Governor General's Body Guard]; R. E. Gunn, 10th R.G.; J. E. Webber, 37th Regt.; T. A. Hiam, 2nd Field Co., C.E., L. G. Campbell, 36th Regt.; H. P. Charters, 20th Regt.; E. F. Palmer, 20th Regt.

162nd Battalion--Lieuts. W. J. A. Fair, J. C. Spence, E. M. Martyn, A. Coulter McLean and J. A. Fawcett appointed provisionally.

182nd Battalion--Appointment of following officers as lieutenants--Lieuts. R. H. Jolliffe, A. B. Doubt, W. E. McKissock, H. J. Prenter, A. B. Cockburn, F. A. Spence, R. J. Lowry, G. O. Forsyth, C. A. Vickery, F. Chappell, J. F. Dales, L. H. Lewis, H. W. Penrose, I. M. Wylie and W. J. Beaton, all of 34th Regt.

204th Beaver Battalion--To be chaplain, with hon. rank of captain--Rev. F. M. Bell-Smith; to be lieutenants--Lieuts. W. A. McMaster, W. A. Dunlop, M. H. Brokenshire, R. T. Craig, F. Francis and W. A. Andrew, all of 109th Regt.; A. Welsh, 23rd Regt.

216th (Bantam) Battalion--To be major--Capt. A. R. Campbell, 10th R.G.; to be adjutant--Capt. A. R. O'Regan, G.G.B.G.; to be lieutenants--Lieuts. J. C. Wreyford, 34th Regt., E. T. Walker, 10th R.G.; W. H. Currie, 64th Regt., C. H. Morris, 77th Regt., P. K. McKissock, 20th Regt., J. W. Crane, 10th R.G., G. H. Coghlan, 109th Regt., and G. T. Roach, 23rd Regt.