The Second-in-Command is Major H. W. Pilcher, who has as fine a record in the Corps as his old associate in that organization, the wartime Commandant, Col. T. E. Trueman. The Major is so wrapped up in "A" Company that he has almost adopted Mih-ho-loong the for his own family crest.
Joining as a private in 1890, he has served continuously since and been through every rank: in fact, he is just now the ''father" of the Corps. He eventually became Director of Infantry Training and succeeded to his present rank last year. Such aman could not help being a good sportsman, which Major Pilcher is, and if would do some people a world of good could they attend an §.V.C. football committee meeting with him in the chair. It is an education in keenness and determination to achieve anything which he believes to be for the good of the Corps.
iTowever, of Major Pilcher more anon. He is now on the Staff, but can never be disassociated from Company and he will come -rgely into the history of that unit.
Major L. E. Canning, the Ad-jurant, is another veteran of the Corps. He saw service with the Royal Horse Artillery in South Africa uuu during the Boxer Rebellion. 1905 found him out with the S.V.C. guns during the riots of that year. Two years later he was commissioned to the battery and in 1909 was Captain in command. Since 1913 he has been Adjutant, though the title used to
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