and for his services nection Mr. Armstrong Presentation from Major Morrison, [who was then the Service Commandant of the Corps.
During his long residence in China, Mr. Armstrong' has only returned to the Old Country on two occasions. First in 1897 and again in 1909. During the former occasion] his love of soldiering prompted hi to attach himself to the Hampshire Regiment at Portsmouth, and he spent the whole of his leave with) the regiment. Incidentally (and for} all we know, somebody may have put him up to it) he selected the year 1897 to do this, and in consequence received as did every soldier in the Britis Army. in that year, 3 the Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal, On suggesting that he must very proud of this medal, Mr. Armstrong informed our reporter, that that was by no means the only} medal he bad, and proudly produced three others, viz. the China 'Medal, 1900, which he earned by' the Field Staff of the British Army: during the Boxer rebellion; the Shanghai Volunteer Jubilee ' Medal] issued in 1893 to commemorate Apavt from his association with the Gas Ca, and the ADE, Mr.
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