The Archive · 1934

Mr. C. Clayton Gallop

News has been received from England by cable of the death on Sunday (Sept. 90) of Mr. Charles Clayton Gallop following an operation.

The late Mr. Gallop, who was Far Eastern representative of Messrs. A. Reyrolle & Ca. Ltd., electrical engineers of Hepburn-on-Tyne with TReddquarters in Shanghai, left /Shanghal on March 6 this year home leave fu. land. He first visited. the 1924 tu the Interests of his firm and again in 1931 since when he had resided in Shanghat until his departure this year on leave.

Mr. Gallop was a member of the hanghai Club, Shanghai Gott Club; Shanghai Cricket Club, the Shanghai Cosmopolitan Lodge of Freemasons, Associate Member of the Tnstitution of Electrical Engineers of England and Japan, anda member of the Committee of the China Centre of the TRE.

Mr. Chen Wu-lich Funeral services for the late Mr. Chen Wuslich, better known to.

felends at Tan Boo-hat, fu the Chapel of the International Funeral Directors, Kiaochow Road, on Saturday. The remains are to be cremated and the ashes sent to Singapore for inferment. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his Route Paul Henry residence last Wednesday after long The deceased, sixty years of age, came from a very well-known wealthy family who settled in the Straits Settlements in the early days of the Colony. A staunch supporter of the revolutionary cause, Mr. Chen wae tone of the frst overseas Chinese to be enrolled into membership of the Tong Meng Hui, rendering very valuable service and financial assistance to the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen. He was 'a member of the Overseas Commission, Nanking, Chairman of the Ov sea Chinese Association and in collaboration with Dr. Lim Boon Ken: and Mr. G. B. Faye, wae instrume: tal in the formation of the Chia Overseas League, a non-political organization.

Mr. Chen spent about ten wars in Siam before coming to" China two years ago. He was a personal friend of three successive Siamese Kings: Chulalongkorn, King Rama V ind the present ruler. For his services to the Siamese Government, he was created 2 nobleman of the Siamese order, under the title of Phra Anukun Syamkitch. Despite

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