Important Changes Taking Plac in Commissioned Ranks:
Well-known Officers Leav ing the Unit: Brig-Gen.
Macnaghten to Take Command Important changes in the commissioned personnel of the Field Artillery Battery, S.V.C., are nounced. Major R. W. Davis hand" over-the command of the Battery, and his second-in-command, Captain J. S, Hay, is transferred to the Reserve, of Officers. The command of the Battery has been given to Brigadier-General EH. B. Macnaghten, c.M.c., D.0,, who is at present serving on headquarters staff with the rank of Captain, Although he relinquishes the Battery, Major Davis is not eave the Corps, but is going to headquarters us C. A. recognition of the status to which the Battery had then att The career of Major Davis with the Field Artillery Battery carries with it the story of its modern' Jdevelopment. Twenty-two years ago the Battery was armed with 9 Pounders of an_ antiquated type, fiving four different types of, projectile. These were drawn by: teams @f four, anid it was in these days possible to engage in target The New Battery Commander General Macnaghten, who will now command the Battery, belongs to a soldiering family, and was born in India, where his father was with the Indian Cavalry. He _enteres the Army in 1892, going into the Artillery" branch of the service, His first campaign was in West Africa in 1898, and thereafter he saw active service in the South African War (1899-1902), in Bast Afviea (1902-04) and." Northern Nigeria (1903), At the outbreak the Buropean War he held the of Major, and was through the retreat from Mons in' command: f the 80th Battery (Ixt Division), He remained with this Division until April, 1916, when he went as GRA. to' the '16th Division. In August, 1918, he was. transferred to the command of the 12th Infantry. Brigade (Ath Division), which. he
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