In reply to a letter sent by the Shanghai Municipal Council to the British War Office requesting the appointment of an officer to replace Col. F. R. W. Graham as Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps on expiry of his term of extended secondment on January 2, 1938, the following message has been received, "Subject to your approval the Army Council have selected Col. J. W.
Hornby, M.c. at present on half pay, as Commandant, Shanghai Volunteer Corps. vice Col, Graham." This appointment was exclusively reported by the "North-China Daily News" London correspondent last Saturday.
Col Hornby was born in 1887 and entered the Army as a Second Lieutenant on probation in 1906. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1909, Captain in 1917, Major in 1923, Lieut.- Colonel in 1931, and Colonel in 1935. He has served with the Camel Constabulary in Somaliland, the Egyptian Army, and the Sudan Defence Force.
The Municipal Council has approved the selection of the Army Council and. arrangements will now be made for Col. Hornpy's transfer to Shanghai. He wf probably arrive towards the end of the year,
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