The Archive · 1930

LOCAL RESIDENT'S DEPARTURE Mr. H. Arthur of the

Invalided Home

On March 26 q well-known foreign resident in the person Mr. Harry Arthur left Shanghai for Home via America, after having spent some troelve years in the country. Mr. Arthur, who during these years has been connected with the Asiatic Petroleum Ca., is accompanied by Mrs. Arthur.

Mr, Arthur arrived in Shanghai for the A.P.C. in September, 191! doing one of the first of the service men to reach here prior the Armistice. During the war his regiment was the Royal Fusiliers, with whom he served from August, 1914, until February, 1918, being on the Western Front from 1914 to 1916, and rising to the rank of major. In February, 1918, he was invalided from the army as a tesult of injuries received in action. retiring with the substantive rank of lieutenant and receiving a life pension.

Coming to China he was station! at different times in Shanghs jen tsin, Peking and Hankow, a wre here was for some time in the Shanghai Scottish. In 1929

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