The Archive · 1934

S.V.C. ANNUAL INSPECTION PARADE

Brig. F. S. Thackeray Takes Salute at the Country Club: Mobile Column's Unusual Display Saturday was th teer Corps' big Shanghai Volun-and all. com-the, following order pany, "B" Company, American Com-Dany, Portuguese Company, Japanese Company, Chinese Company, Shang-vai Scottish, led by their own pipe-fallow the parade to be held polo. ground as is usual. Instead of feaneelling the annual fixture, as. has been done in the past, it was decided to parade the corps past a saluting base erected in the compound of the JCountry Club.

'A-novel feature of this year's parade was the second column. This is the frst time in the history of the corps that the whole of the mobile section has marched past as such. Led by the Armoured Cars, the mobile force, consisting of 42. vehicles under the feommand of Major H. F. Newton, swept past the Brigadier at fifteen miles an hour, saluting as they went,

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