The Archive · 1938

Loyals Depart With the Sikh Troopers, under

'Trooper Sergt. O. C. Goldsmith, wh9 had headed the Seaforths up' from the wharf, riding in front of the battalion, the Loyals started off from the Race Course down Nanking Rond, with bayonets fixed, presenting exceptionally smart appearance. The crowds who Kad curiously watched the Seaforths in their unusual unt forms marching up to the Race Course were still gathered to watch the Loyals swing down the road on their last march through the streets Shanghai, which first they had glimpsed. on November 5, 1938.

There was a largo crowd of Bri tons close to the gates of H.M. Con-suite, (where Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, HM. Ambassador, was stand ing, accompanied by Mr. Herbert Phillips, H.M. Consul-General, Major-General A.P.D. Telfer-Smollett, and other officers ready to take the salute as the Loyals passed. On arrival Hunt's Wharf, the Loyals embarked the troopship Somersetshire, Which salls this morning for Singapore, the Loyals' next station. The Somersetshire had arrived early yesterday morning with the Seaforths from Hongkong.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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