Gaieties of the Coming of Age: Enthusiasms of the Original Group and New Comers 'The Rifle "Range on Saturday was the scene of a gala dinner called to celebrate the coming fof age of the Shanghai Scottish ©o, S: V.C, and to which a larve number of guests, including S.V.C. officers, honorary' members of the unit, police officers, the Committee of St. Andrew's Society, and other pre= minent people, were' invited.
The Shanghai Scottish came into being shortly after the begin ning of the Great War, when, the ranks of the Volunieer Corps being seriously depleted by men who had Jeff for the front, a call for recruits was sent out. Mr. Bain immediate-called a meeting of local Scots men together, and with nearly a hundred possible recruits attending, the decision to form the company was quickly arrived at, An argument en-Sued as to the wearing of kilts, but ler a strenuous discussion between rival clans, the tartan of the hunting Stewarts was agreed upon.
During its 21 years of being, the Shanghai Scottish Ca. has played a prominent part in the defence of the Settlement.
It served at the North Station dur~ ing September and October, 1924, aad January the following' year the Shanghai Scottish were on duty at Internment Camp in Avenue Haig. where they disarmed some 2,009 Chinese troops at the Jessfield Creek Railway Bridg They were turned out during the troublous times of 1927, and were on duty again at the North Station in 1932, Their printed history is honoured by appearing in the Scottish Na-Honal Naval and Military Museum.
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