BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL TREVOR TERNAN, C.M.G., D.S.O.,

COMMANDING 123^rd (TYNESIDE SCOTTISH) BRIGADE.

HEADQUARTERS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE,

14^th FEBRUARY, 1915.

120 – Extracts from Northern Command Orders –

“LONDON GAZETTE” –

            The following extracts from a Second Supplement to the “London Gazette”, of Friday, the 5^th day of February, 1915, are published for information:-

The Northumberland Fusiliers –

21^st Battalion (2^nd Tyneside Scottish), Leslie Robinson Raimes to be temporary Second Lieutenant.  Dated 7^th December, 1914.

22^nd Battalion (3^rd Tyneside Scottish). The dates of the appointment of the undermentioned officers are as now shown, and not as stated in the “Gazettes” of 6^th and 18^th January, 1915:-

Temporary Captain and Adjutant Richard H. T. Jobson.  Dated 21^st

November, 1914.

Temporary Lieutenant Dudley C. Laing.  Dated 14^th November, 1914.

Temporary Lieutenant John P. Foster.  Dated 18^th November, 1914.

Temporary Lieutenant Henry Sibbet.  Dated 18^th November, 1914.

Temporary Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant Robson W. Rotherford.

 Dated 13^th November, 1914.

Temporary Second Lieutenant Alfred R. Carr.  Dated 19^th November, 1914.

The undermentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants.  Dated 7^th December, 1914:-

            George Robert Purdy.

George William Atkinson.

Matthew Young.

20^th Battalion (1^st Tyneside Scottish). – The undermentioned temporary Second Lieutenants to be temporary Lieutenants.  Dated 8^th January, 1915:-

Robert B.T. Pinkney.

Arthur L. Young.

Percy Bickerton to be temporary Second Lieutenant.  (Dated 29^th December, 1914)

22^nd Battalion (3^rd Tyneside Scottish). – The undermentioned to be temporarySecond Lieutenants:-

William McIntosh.  Dated 15^th December, 1914.

G. Charlton.  Dated 7^th January, 1915.

The undermentioned temporary Lieutenants to be temporary Captains.  Dated 8^th January, 1915.

Dudley C. Laing.

John P. Forster.

Henry Sibbit.

Godfrey H. Williams.

The undermentioned temporary Second Lieutenants to be temporary Lieutenants:-

David H. Bibby.

G. Charlton.

Northern Command Order No. 198.

MUSKETRY INSTRUCTIONAL EQUIPMENT –

Command Order No. 183, of the 9^th instant, is cancelled in so far as it refers to tripods.

A large supply has now been received by the Ordnance Department.  Indents should be submitted to C.O.O., York, immediately.

Northern Command Order No. 197.

INOCULATION AGAINST ENTERIC FEVER –

With reference to Command Order No. 156, dated February 4^th, 1915, it is published for the information of all concerned that in future all men who have been inoculated against Enteric Fever will, except in cases of urgent emergency, be struck off all duties for 48 hours immediately after inoculation, and arrangements should be made for accommodation to be set aside in which the men can lie down and be quiet during this period.

Authority, War Office letter No. 24/Gen. No./3567 (A.G.3.a.) dated 6^th February, 1915.

Northern Command Order No. 199.

HUTMENTS – STORES –

In connection with the hutments that have been, are being, or are to be erected for the accommodation of the New Armies, etc., approval has been given for the local provision of ash-bins for cook-houses in hutment camps, where separate dining-huts are not provided, in the following proportions:-

Per Company Cook-house            1

Per Battalion Cook-house              4

For Camps where dining-huts have been provided it is not proposed to increase the present scale of ash-bins viz., 1 per 4 huts, allowed under Hutment Schedule No. 1, but arrangements should be made to distribute them so as to have a certain number near the dining-huts and cook-houses where they are most urgently needed.

Authority, 57/General Number/4063 (Q.M.G.9), dated War Office, 8^th February, 1915.

C.R. No. 43126 (O.S.). Northern Command Order No. 200.

RECRUITS – DISCHARGE OF, ON MEDICAL GROUNDS –

It is notified for the information of all concerned that no man under Three Month’s service is in future to be discharged on Medical grounds, under paragraph 392, sub-paragraph (111), King’s Regulations, without the approval of The Medical Inspector of Recruits, Northern Command.

Authority, War Office telegram No. 1812 (A.G.2.B.), dated 11^th February, 1915.

Northern Command Order No.201.

SERVANT ALLOWANCE –

In reference to Command Order No. 1794, of the 19^th December last, it has been decided that where the scale of batmen laid down in War Establishment provides a less number of servants than is laid down in the Allowance Regulations, the issue of Servant Allowance will be limited to the War Establishment Scale, and will be subject to the conditions laid down in the Command Order above quoted.

Authority, War Office letter No. 48/General Number/3382 (F.2.), dated 2^nd February, 1915.

C.R. No. 30732/16 (Q).  Northern Command Order No.202.

T.L.B. SOUTRY, Captain,

Brigade-Major, 123^rd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade.