The Portuguese Company, $.V.C.
Jjebrated on Satuéday and Sunday 20th anniversary of its form tion: it having been incorporated ay a unit of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps on February 28, 1906, The present Company the is Inst of several Portuguere Companies which have existed on and off at various dates since the for-motion of the Corps in 1854 and which have ceased to exist for vari-cons reasons "The present unit had the same familiar starting point the other units which were formed bout that time, on the occasion of the "Mixed Court Riots" of Decem-her 18, 1905, About the close of that year and while the disturbances were still fresh in everybody! mind, a handful of old Portuguese residents, prominent amongst whom were Mersrs, Hermenegilde Pereira, Joaquim Fausto das Chagas, Pernando Jose d'Almeida, Jose Maria Place Remedios, Joao Nolasco Silva and Filomeno Mattos, conceived the idea of forming a new Portuguese Company The Prompting Spirit The ye ug. their tion were to be:—stated Phe desirability of an organized effort for service on the part was'such that on the ove Jannual inspection of that year the unit paraded one officer and 68 other ranks.
The First Commi The first commission was issued to Mr. Nolasco as Lieutenant and. he assumed command of the unit on its incorporation. A commission followed for Mr. Basilio Cation in July, 1906.
Tr. September, 1906, a sham fight was arranged against the German Ca. this being the very first the Portuguese Ca. was engaged in. The second and last sham fight against the same German Ca. (together with the Austrian Ca.,) took place a few days before Portugal entered the War on the side of the Allies. Another sham fight was arranged with the American Ca. and others at later dates with ther units of the Corps.
In 1908 permission was finally granted by the Council for the adoption of Portuguere drill and words of command, and " third commission was issued to Mr. Ernesto Carneiro.
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