The spurt in the making of Colonels Includes It. Colonels I. C. Larmour, G. V. Comyn, J. C. Tilley, A. Burrowes, L. Manion, and V.' Johnson of The Gloucestershire Reiment. The latter is succeeded in command of the 2nd Battalion by It. Col. Cox. I note that Colonels Vyvyan and Phillips reach their rank at 44 and 43 years and that Ut. Col. Penney gets that rank at 20 along with W. M. Miller, P. A. Riteheock and C. P. Prescot all of the Signals. The Royal Signals in fact have "had a spurt and their jonier captains in a bunch hat their majorities with between eleven and twelve years in the rank of eaptain, The lotest Infantry promotion 10 Lieut. Colonel shows a difference of ten years in age compared with the latest Artillery promotion, Col. Archdale. The Infantry. has hardships in, the junior ranks with subalterns of fifteen to seventeen years service and hard cases in the RLF, Foresters, RB, Hampshire, Sussex and Somerset.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.