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kept the Force alive at all periods of need and, in quieter times, has kept the few going to whom volunteering is a way of life and worth doing for its own sake. One illustration of this may serve for the rest. When the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General (later Lord) Harding inspected the Hong Kong contingent of the Coronation Parade that went to London in 1952 he said to C. S. M. Walker “You're a P. S. I., of course." Walker's chest swelled about three inches. "No, sir," he replied “a Volunteer with thirty years service" 59
59 Vol, 1953, p. 27. P.S.I, is Permanent Staff Instructor, seconded from the Regular Army.