Tin 1914 Mr. Monk was at Home and during his stay in Tnited Kingdom the War broke out, He immediately enlisted in King Edward's Horse as a trooper, and went to the front with them. Subsequently he was commissioned, and when the Tank Corps was formed he joined—it. First of all he had charge of one of the large tanks, but later when the Whippets had been built, he was placed in command of a section of these extraordin y Useful, fast machines. There is doubt. that his work with the Tanks was of w high and adventurous 1 used to rel christening two or three "China," it wag hinted to him that the name was unlucky, each of that nomenclature having been knocked out by shell fir For his service i branch he received Cross and was pro-joy. During the war he was severely wounded in the foot, and the disability he suffered therefrom prevented him from resuming active duties in the mounted unit of the volunteers.
Returning to the Far East after the war, he joined, in 1919, the service of the Glen Line Eastern Agencies, and being stationed more or less permanently in Shanghai proceeded to take an extremely active and useful part
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