"Davey" Leighton With tragic suddenness on the very day that his former chief, Colonel" W. F. L. Gordon died, death has claimed Mr, D. Leighton who served as Corps Sergeant Major of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps when Col. Gordon was Commandant. The news will come jas a shock to the hundreds of men who. were ti drill, for "Davey with' nearly every type of machine gun in oxistance. He was a com-natively young man, being in his! (3rd year when ho was Killed in an accident, and men inside and outside the Volunteer Corps will sinher his cheerful presence, which carried him along Food soldier, ead'a. good a soldier, bad'&. good voice an smokers there was always. Inad ficclaim for his favourite song which never failed' to evoke "fra: grant memories of the other land called Home:
There's wee howe on the hillside heres wes haute by the sea Theres wee lass ip that wee howe Nuting patiently for me "Davey," completing his service with the Volunteers, wort back that "wee hoose" in Scotland, but} an. accident robbed him of death will be regretted, enjoyment of his reward.
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