The Archive · 1915

Volunteers for the Front

DEPARTURE BY THE P. & 0.8 — ARCADIA

'A further contingent of British volunteers left Shanghai on Monday 8. morning by the P. & O, 8. Arcadia for service at home. The departure was attended by a crowd of friends and well-wishers, who assembled on the Customs Jotty some time before 8.30, at which hour the teader Alexandra moved off. Members of the Volunteers and Fire Brigade turned out to give their representatives s cheery _rewell, and all those leaving wer" the ro. cipients of hearty congratulations and good wishes, the send-off being no less enthusiastic than that so corded to the first contingent. Among the passengers on the Arcadia was Miss Hatch, until recently of the staff of the Victoria Nursing Home Mise Hatch has

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