Tankard Presented by Association to Departing S.V.C. Commandant Col guest of honour at the weekly R.A-F.A. tiffin yesterday was lonel J. W. Hornby, M.C. retiring commandant of the S.V.C. Colonel Hornby, who is a member of the Association, was presented with a'tankard by Mr.
V. J. B. Holland, the President, on behalf of the gathering.
In speaking of the guest Mr. Holland mentioned his excellent services fi or the Volunteer Corps during a time of unusual strain, and complimented him on the manner in which he has maintained the tradi tions of the Corps. Other guests at the tiffin included Mr. Hugh Middleton, President of the British United Services Association, M. R. Egal, leader of the local De Gaulle movement, Lt.-Col. G. H.
Mann, M.C. and Major H. S. Bartley.
Mr, Holland's speech follows:
"When I asked Col, Hornby, on your behalf, to honour the Associ tion as our official guest before his departure from Shanghai on his recall to serve his country in other war areas, I was fully aware that there are good colonels and bad ones. We all recall the actions of some colonels, particularly those who support Nazism, but' these colonels are bad ones and are not members of the RAF.A, whereas Col. Hornby is, and we, having selected a good ¢olonel, invited him to step out of his membership chair to be our official guest today.
"I do not know what the colonel's
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