Mr, E. C. Baker Gazetted og Second Assistant Commissioner A new Shanghai Municipal Potice appointment is gazetted, Mr. E. C, Baker. having been appointed Assistant Commissioner, connected with the foreign branch, hig brings the commissioned ranks up to full strength, each brancti now having tthe requisite number of officers, with an allowance for one away on eave, Apart from the more defini qualifications that the appointment, excessive enthusiasm for thie work and states that, although a, con mercial life has not treated him altogether unkindly, nevertheless his ambition always hag been to. get into. military or other associated work and he regards hig preset Tommission as the fulfilment of hia aims. Hitherto he has been an insurance man and he came to Shang. hhal in 1918 for the Northern As. surance Ca,, with which concern retained' a connexion during five years through Messrs, W. Loxley & Ca. He was on the com: mittee of the Shanghai Fire Insurance Ca,, of which, in 1026, he was Vice-Chairman.
In 1909, when in London, Me. Baker joined the London ' Rifts Brigade, one of the most famous of the old Volunteer organizations an! certainly no less a proud unit-of the Territorial Force, Still with then when the war broke, Mr. Baker went to France in 1914 and served continuously at the front until 1017, receiving' a commission in 1916, The next year hi and when to the Instructional Stam. of -the Sctiool of the Staff of the Western Commant School of Musketry, With the nillitary spirit still strong in him, tone of his first acts after arriving in Shanghai was to join hho Machine Gun Company of th 8. V. ©, in which he later was commissioned (1022) and, in the absence of Capt, Bond, he had com. mand of the unit during tio hectic times of last summer. He is alm fy proud of the Machine Gun Com-riy as of hi 1, By and Togards the pitch of Keen not to mention efficiency, An Enthusiastic Sporterian Mr, Baker also has earned fame in Shanghai not of hered a mighty ditto pair of hands and the Intter poste:: sion, added to the fact that invariably runs even for obviously impossible balls, make him a very valuable man in' the long field. "Ho will be a distinct, acquisition to the rejuvenated Police team, He has interests in other sports, but says always has found Volunteering to occupy most of his spare time. winter. "Actually it was his cricket which sent him into the Machine Gun Company. Ho was asked one day in the Cricket Club" pavilion, in an emergency, if he would play for thy M. G. C. team and consented. ani than, so that no. rule should broken, an &. V. C. form was handed to him' and he signed on, for ce-operation and quoted Kipling as follows:— ain't guns funds' that they can But the close makes, them win the nent, oF the ration that Te'ain't the Undividual, oF the army a whole, But the everlasting of teamwork every blooming. soul
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