formerly on the Orderly Room staff under Lieut.-Col. Bray, hax been granted a commission as and Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He is now at the Western front.
Friends of Capt. E. C. Creasy, formerly of the Shanghai Municipal Police, will hear with concern that @ letter has been re 467 ceived in Shanghai, saying that Capt. Creasy had been wounded in Mesopotamia, No details, however, are yet given.
The last mail brings a letter from Dr. Fresson, and many friends, English and French, be glad to hear that he is going on well and in good health. Dr. Fresson is still at the same base hospital as he has been in all through the war, and he is trying hard to be sent on active work in the fighting line.
Many friends will hear with pleasure that Lieut. F. G. C. Walker, 187th Ca, R.E., formerly Colour Sergeant of "A" Ca., British, who left the Municipal Health Department to go Home to fight, has been awarded the Military Cross for valour in the Battle of Loos.
Characteristically, Mr. Walker, in his letter announcing this fact, disclaims any merit on his own part.
Four members of the Maxim Battery, 8.V.C., have been attached to the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps by the War Office, for duty at the training centre at Grantham, Lines. They are:—2nd-Lieut, E. 8. Elliston, 11th Battalion South Stafford shire Regt.; 2nd-Lieut. C. D.
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