After 12 years service in the Shanghai Municipal Gaol, Senior Warder H.J.H. Sampson has resigned his position, and yesterday, on behalf of the Gaol Staff, the Governor, Mr. W. C. Grant, presented him with an inscribed gold watch. Making the presentation, the Governor spoke of Mr. Sampson's valuable services since he had joined them in July 1926 and wished him all luck in future life.
Mr. Sampson, who is very popular amongst his colleagues, held the distinction of being the only man in the Municipal Gaol to have served under Lord Beatty, then Sir David Beatty, with the Grand Fleet during the Great War. He served later in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf.
The retiring officer has not decided where his future home will be, and it is stated that he may settle down in Shanghai.
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