Passing of the Late Commandant of Volunteers Following am Operation: His Outstanding Work in Shanghai: Army Career and Other Activities We regret to announce the death duties that when the mobilization This news will cause much grief and come as a great shock to a large number of people in Shanghai, for when he left here just under three years ago Col. Marr Johnson wa robust health, and, hoped to resume British Army. Details of his illness have not been received, nor was it Known that ho was to undergo an operation. 'The fact, however, that following upon it, he has passed away, removes a' very fine soldier and a very great friend and admirer of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, for which he performed a very was ordered everything was carried through without 2 hitch. Tt was an example of staff work of the highest order.
Major Marr Johnson went abroad with the Expeditionary Force, and his work during the retreat from Mons must have been of the most trying description. He had to arrange to get the necessary trains up to the ever-varying railheads, bringing supplies, carrying back wounded and performing the other services-essential to the conduct of operations by a modern army. That the retreat could be conducted successfully constitutes a tribute to the work which he and such as he did on the Staff.
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