Dispensers Appointed to Commissions

Whereas in 2 NZEF in the Middle East senior qualified dispensers could hold only the rank of staff-sergeant or sergeant, in four units in New Zealand, on HS Maunganui, and at 4 General Hospital 2 NZEF (IP) the senior dispensers held commissions. To rectify this anomaly the war establishments of 1, 2, and 3 General Hospitals, 1 CCS, and 23 Field Ambulance were altered to permit the senior dispenser to hold the rank of second-lieutenant, and on 4 July 1943 these dispensers were commissioned.