'Volunteer Corps' Popula Commandant General regret will be felt at the! news that Col, N. W. B. B, Theme, DS.0., ME, for the past three years Commanding Oficer of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, will severing his connection. with Corps at the end of next January, when the period for which he was seconded to the S. M.
British Army authorities will hav Proof of the high esteem in!
Col, Thoms' outstanding eff-and personality have been instanced by the fact, that invited by the Council to command for a further Though the usual length in-extension is only a Single year. Col, Thoms, however. replied that he was unable to accept, as he had. made other at Yangements. A request has been! made to the War Office to name an! officer to take over the Corps, comi-fland, and it is understood that will be appointed, Volunteer, and, the Srst_ Colonial officer to come he in an executive and adm capacity, Col, Thoms struc torely new note, owing much of hi remarkable success to the way Which he has combined expert experience of military affairs with Special personal understanding of the difference between Regular ani Volunteer conditions of, service. Now on Reserve of Officers, General List, Col. Thoms has reached only two years over his half-century. He commenced sol Giering as a London Volunteer the Queen's Westminster Rifles,—fan experience which did not count again hm oe an an iptrodoction fo Shanghai, where London's pet civ' lion oldiers, the famous "Gros Brigade," are so_ strongly represented—ané had the privilege of serving in the ranks under both Si Howard Vincent and Col. Trollops Distinguished Record After serving two years in the Boer War with the Imperi Yeomanry—winning the Queen's Medal with five clasps—he went ce New Zealand, with which Colony he had been identified ever since. He continued his military service by Joining the Dunedin Cycle Corr Volunteers, eventually being selected as a probationer for the Permanent Staff and being commission-jed a Lieatenant on March 17, 1911,
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