By the kind permission of the Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, the first reunion dinner of the Corps of Royal Engineers was held at the §.V.C. Club on Tuesday night, when 43 members of the Corps sat down to dinner. Lieut. Col. M. H. Logan,.c., presided and was supported by Major E. R. Cartwright, 0.8.5. as vice-president.
After the toasts of the King and the memory of Fallen Comrades had been duly honoured, the President said that he did not propose to refer to the exploits of the Corps during the recent great war, but that he would like to recount the circumstances under which this reunion dinner had been arranged. At one time it was thought that. not more than 20 ex-members of the Corps were present in Shanghai and he was agreeably surprised to obtain more than 50 names in response to an advertisement which he inserted in the North-China Daily News." With the very efficient help of Mr. H. L. Molyneux, on whose shoulders most of the work had fallen, and also that of Capt. L. P. Ridgway and Mr. A. E.. Annatt, the arrange ments for holding the dinner were made, and the response to the invitations sent out was, he thought, remarkable, and served to show how very much alive in Shanghai was the spirit of comradeship and pride in their old Corps. He thought that the number present that night was almost a record for a reunion dinner in Shanghai, in fact he doubted if it had ever been exceeded by their seniors, the Regiment of Royal Artillery. He felt sure that this dinner would be the first of many, and would be the means of bringing together all those who felt a pride in the fact that they had had the honour of serving in this distinguished corps.
Major E. R. Cartwright, 0.3.t., responded and proposed a vote of thanks to the organizers of the dinner, and at the same time said that he wished to propose the names of seven ex-members of the Corps as a Committee to arrange for the next reunion dinner to be held in the autumn, which he felt sure would be even more largely attended than had the present one.
The committee was duly elected. An excellent musica] programme was afterwards enjoyed, in which Messrs. Raggett, Butt, Walker, Stoner, Howard and Kortright most kindly assisted and the meeting broke up with the singing of "Auld Long Syne" and a firm determination to meet again in the near future. well-known in Shanghai, where ho assists his father, while the bride is a new comer in Shanghai where she arrived but a few days previous to her marriage. The _wedding supper took place at the Hotel Parisienne. The young couple immediately left for Peking and will spend their honeymoon in the
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