No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineer Volunteers was first formed in 1885, with Captain (now Major) L. O. Beal in command. The strength of the corps was then sixty-three, and it has now increased to one hundred. Its officers are Captain G. D. Ross, Senior Lieutenant John Thomas Midgley, and Lieutenants Lacey and Flynn.

Captain George Douglas Ross , of No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineer Volunteers, is a son of Mr. G. M. Ross, recently manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Palmerston South, and was born at Lake Wakatipu. He was educated at the Dunedin Boys' High School, and joined the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, in 1886. In the following year he joined the Dunedin Naval Artillery as a gunner, and was afterwords a lieutenant in the L Battery and Port Chalmers Naval Artillery. He joined the Engineers in 1896, was transferred to the Reserve in 1899, from the reserve to the Engineers in 1900 as lieutenant, and promoted to the captaincy of the corps in October, 1903.

Wrigglesworth and Binns, photo.
Captain G. D. Ross.

Lieutenant John Thomas Midgley , of the No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineer Volunteers, first joined the Canterbury Engineers in 1887. After nine years of service he transferred with the rank of sergeant-major, to the Dunedin Engineers as a private, and rose through the various grades until he reached lance-sergeant. After serving three months in that capacity he was elected third lieutenant in 1900. Lieutenant Midgley is now senior lieutenant of his company. He is a fireman at the Dunedin Engineering Company's works.

Lieutenant Edgar Lacey , of No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineer Volunteers, first joined the old Wakari Rifles, and remained a member until the disbandment of the corps in 1892. In the same year he joined the Engineers as a sapper, and, passing through the various grades, was appointed lieutenant in 1900.

Lieutenant James B. Flynn , No. 2 Company, Dunedin Engineers, was born in Dunedin in 1870. He joined his present corps in 1893, as a sapper, and, after passing through the various ranks, was elected lieutenant in October, 1903. Lieutenant Flynn occupies a position in the engineering firm of Messrs A. and T. Burt, Dunedin.