Gazette entry

[BridgetM]

Career information collected from Gazette mostly (indicated where other source) for background:

24 Jun 1899 2nd Lieut, Durham Artillery
16 Feb 1901 Lieut
1901/2/3 Medal Rolls – Queen’s South Africa Medal with 1901 and 1902 clasps, South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and OFS clasps
Army Lists 1902 Lieut Royal Artillery/ R.H & R.F.A
20 Nov 1907 Capt
16 Oct 1912 seconded as TF Adjutant
30 Oct 1914 Major
5 May 1916 seconded to HQ Staff, restored to establishment 25 Sept 1916
25 Sept 16 Temp Lt Col while commanding a Brig[ade?] of Artillery
1 Jan 1918 Awarded DSO [still Major (T/Lt-Col)]
30 Mar 1919 relinquishes temporary rank of Lt Col on ceasing to cmd Brig. of Art.

1 Jan 1921 Lieut-Col           [during 1921 he was recorded as commanding troops in Ireland]

 

London Gazette 30^th Jun 1925    Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Regimental List

 The undermentioned Lt-Cols, ret. pay to be Lt Cols. 1^st July 1925 :- [included in list] Lenox Arthur Dutton Naper, DSO, with seniority 29 Jun 1918

 

Gazette 1932 - reached age limit, ceases to belong to Reserve of Officers.

 

It is the entry in bold I am curious about - 'ret. pay to be Lt Cols.' why does this need to be stated? What does it mean?

'with seniority 29 Jun 1918' - as he is retired, what does this mean for him?

[HarryBrook]

"Lt.-Cols., ret. pay, to be Lt.-Cols." is just official confirmation that his rank when placed on the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, on 1st July 1925, was Lt.-Col. He had retired and been placed on retired pay on the same date.

 

The seniority date is a means of knowing which of two officers of equal rank is senior and which is subordinate to the other. As an example, in the film Zulu, Lt. Chard (played by Stanley Baker) and Lt. Bromhead (played by Michael Caine) compare their seniority dates to see who should command the force at Rourke's Drift: Chard was senior and took command.

 

Another gazette entry which be of interest - issue 33008 of 2 January 1925 page 53

The undermentioned on completion of four years serv. as Regtl. Lt.-Cols., are placed on the h.p [half pay] list:-

1st Jan. 1925

The list included L. A. D. Naper, D.S.O.