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1/yCHT) about 10,000 reconnaissances during eight months of war, corresponding to more than 18,000 hours of flight. In order to form an idea of what was accomplished, it is sufficient to observe that these flights put together represent a distance traversed of 1,800,000 kiloms., or 45 times round the world. These remarkable results were not obtained without grievous losses, which are com parable to, and often more severe than, those of other arms, so far as the number of killed, wounded, and missing is concerned." It was announced in Petrograd on March 5th that in the fighting around Przasnysz the Russians took 12 guns, ® ® THE BRITISH UNDER this heading are published each week the official announce ments of appointments and promotions affecting the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) and Central Flying School. These notices are not duplicated. By way of instance, -when an appointment to the Royal Naval Air Service is announced by the Admiralty it is published forthwith, but subse quently, when it appears in the LONDON GAZETTE, it is not repeated in this column. Royal Naval Air Service. THE following was announced by the Admiralty on the 3rd inst.: Acting Sub-Lieut. L. H. HardstafF, R.N.R., transferred to the Royal Naval Air Service as Probationary Sub Lieutenant, and appointed to the." President," additional, for R.N.A.S. To date Feb. 3rd. The following was announced by the Admiralty on the 6th inst. :— Mr. T. C. Vernon entered as Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant, and appointed to the " President," additional, for R.N.A.S. To date March 5th. The following was announced by the Admiralty on the 8th inst. :— R. G. Mack entered as Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant, and appointed to the " President," for Royal Naval Air Service. To date March 6th. The following appeared in the London Gazette issued on the 9th inst.:— With reference to the notice which appeared in the London Gazette of Friday, Feb. 26th, 1915, the seniority of Flight Sub-Lieut. H. J. Batchelor should be Nov. 15th, 1914, and not as therein slated. Royal Flving Corps (Military Wing). THE following appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette issued on the 3rd inst. :— The undermentioned appointment is made : Equipment Officer.—Second Lieut. R. H. Collier, Special Reserve, and to be temporal) Captain, vice temporary Capt. F. C. Jenkins, Special Reserve. Dated Feb. 16th, 1915. Special Reserve. Supplementary to Regular Corps.—The proba tionary appointments of the undermentioned Second Lieutenants are cancelled: R. C. Freeman; dated Feb. 4th, 1915. M. V. Morgan; dated Feb. 13th, 1915. Second Lieut, (on probation) C. C. Wigram is confirmed in his rank. L. W. Yule to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated Sept. 17th, 1914, but not to carry pay or allowances prior to Dec. 23rd, 1914. H. R. Nicholl to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated Feb. 16th, 1915. The following appeared in the London Gazette issued on the 5th inst. :— Special Reserve. Supplementary to Regular Corps.—The under mentioned Second Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed in their rank : J. J. Hammond and F. W. Goodden. ® ® Military Aviation in South Africa, ACCORDING to an announcement in the Cape Times Weekly of February 12th, the Governor General of South Africa has appointed the undermentioned officers of the Active Citizen Force to commissioned rank in the Per manent Force (Staff) of the Union Defence Forces :— As Captain, Gerard Percy Wallace, from Lieutenant, South African Aviation Corps; as Lieutenants, Basil MARCH 12, 1915. 29 machine guns, 122 ammunition wagons, an aeroplane, and a number of trains. In a semi-official statement issued in Petrograd on March 8th there was the following :— " The Austrians keep up a particularly violent fire on our aviators, who fly over the fortress (Przemysl) almost daily. On March 5th our fire brought down a German aeroplane of the Albatros type near the station of Sokolka. The aviators were made prisoners." An official communique issued in Petrograd on the 9th stated :— " Our aviators successfully dropped bombs on Czuc- zine and Stavisk." ® ® AIR SERVICES. C. D. Fuller to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated Jan. 28th, 1915. The following appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette issued on the 6th inst.:— The undermentioned appointment is made : Flying Officer: Lieut.-Col. Sir B. B. M. Leighton, Bart., Territorial Force Reserve, from the Reserve. Dated Feb. 5th, 1915. Special Reserve. Supplementary to Regular Corps.—Second Lieut. B. C. Hucks to be Lieutenant. Dated Feb. 15th, 1915. The following appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette issued on the 8th inst. :— The undermentioned appointment is made : Equipment Officer.—Lieut, (temporary Capt.) J. Valentine, Special Reserve, a Flying Officer. Dated February 8th, 1915. The following appeared in the London Gazette issued on the 9th inst. :— The undermentioned appointments are made : Squadron Commanders; Lieut, (temporary Capt.) G. I. Car- michael, Royal Artillery, a Flight Commander, and to be temporary Major ; dated March 2nd, 1915. Capt. U. J. D. Bourke, Oxford shire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, a Flight Commander, and to be temporary Major ; dated March 2nd, 1915. Major T. I. Webb-Bowen, Bedfordshire Regiment, from Assistant Commandant Central Flying School ; dated March 6th, 1915. Flying Officer: Lieut. C. W. Anstey, South Wales Borderers, and to be seconded. Dated Feb. 26th, 1915. Special Reserve. Supplementary to Regular Corps.—H. T. Musker to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated March 10th, 1915. The undermentioned non-commissioned officer to be Second Lieutenant for service in the field :— The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Corporal W. H. Nixon, from Royal Flying Corps. Dated Feb. 14th, 1915. The following appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette issued on the 10th inst. :— The following appointment is made : Flight-Commander : Capt. John C. Halahan, Reserve of Officers, from a Flying Officer. Dated March 1st, 1915. Special Reserve. Supplementary to Regular Corps.—To be Second Lieutenants (on probation) ; Feb. 20th, 1915 : Arthur R. H. Browne, Robert E. A. W. Hughes-Chamberlain, Arthur M. Cott. Dated March 4th, 1915. Central Flying School. THE following appeared in the London Gazette issued on the 9th inst. :— The undermentioned appointment is made : Assistant Commandant (graded as Wing Commander) :—Capt. (temporary Major) D. Le G, Pitcher, 39th King George's Own Central India Horse, Indian Army, from a Squadron Commander, and to be temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Major T. I. Webb- Bowen, Bedfordshire Regiment. Dated March 6th, 1915. ® ® Hobson Turner, Kenneth Reid van der Spuy, and Gordon Shergold Creed, from Lieutenants, South African Aviation Corps; as Lieutenant (on probation), Edwin Cheere Emmett, from Lieutenant, South African Aviation Corps. His Excellency has appointed the above-mentioned to the Instructional and Administrative Staff of the Union Defence Forces. 172
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