(not Harry, as he has been error oonsly called), was born at Kiukiang. In October, 1914, he resigned his position in' the Customs at Antung and went home overland to enlist in the London Scottish.
After a few months training with this regiment he received a commis-ion in the King's Shropshire light Infantry; passed an exam-
tinction" a few months later and, ination in gunnery "with dis-after being kept in England for some months training—machinegunners, proceeded to the front in September, 1915, as machine-gun officer of his Battalion (the Ist), shortly afterwards being specially selected to act as machine-gun and bomb officer to his Brigade. He was invalided home from the front sentry just before Christ-has sine been in hospital in London, and expecta to return to active duty in the course of a month or two, The second, Mr. Frederic May, whose death was announced in our, columns in October last, after passing through his apprenticeship on board H.M.S. Worcester, joined the British India 8. N. Ca. and afterwards took up tea planting in Travancore, where he was the mans-ger of a large estate at the time of his undertaking military service. After receiving his training in Madras, he went direct to the front in April, 1915, with the rank of Corporal in the Meerut Signalling Corps (motor cycle despatch 200,000. riders attached to the R. E.), Indian Expeditionary Force, and was killed on September 25 while engaged on a reconnaissance of captured German trenches. His party was allowed by the Germans to approach to within five yards of the recaptured trenches, when the whole party with the exception of one was annihilated by machinegun fire, His body was not recoverable. Though only a Tommy, Jying bit" and his name is worthy of in a nameless grave, he "did
cord on the far eastern roll of honour.
The third eon, Mr. Spencer Rutherford, whowasborn in Tientain, recently resigned an appointment with the Bombay Burmah Trading Company, in Siam, and has received a commission in the Bhropshire regiment. He is now in training and will probably get to the front before very long.
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