London, Sept. 27.
The 2nd East- Surrey Battalion is a machine gun battalion which has been with the lith Infantry Brigade in Colchester under Brig. K. A. N. Anderson who commanded the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders and served with the Ist which is on temporary duty in Shanghai The 2nd East Surrey, the old 70th Foot, has been commanded by Lieut.-Col. Acton since 1935 and its pre-China stations have been Shornliffe, -Cat-trick, Gibraltar, Jersey, Aldershot, Dublin, and Singapore. The Ist Battalion did China duty in 1923, 1924 and 1925 before going on to India.
The old 70th Foot is getting on towards being 200 years old and was formerly the 2nd -Battalion of the Bist Foot (st East Surrey) when made into a separate corps in 1758 and given grey facings. Except for a brief period as the 70th Glasgow Lowland the battalion had a long run as the 70th Surrey until Cardwell restored it to the old lst to make the East Surrey Regiment, It had borne the nickname of "The Glasgow Greys" from its facings but from 1768 it was referred to as "The Surrey Blacks," when it got that-facing. There was an awful shindy in 1881 when black was vetoed in favour of the universal white. But white facings have become distinctive to the Surreys as few regiments now poses that colour in the welter of changing back to former facings which has been going on'for many years, The 1st Battalion fought-in China in 1860 and three years later the 2nd was engaged in New Zealand.
The 1st Durham Light Infantry has moved from Shanghai to Tientsin and the families have been sent from England to rejoin. The Singapore relief is the 1st Manchester Regiment from Palestine in October. -The Dunera, a motor ship, out from Soüthampton on September 27, carries naval and military details to China,
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