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- HONGKONG VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS.

(ÖRDEAS BY LIEGT-COL 'L A BIKO, 1.3.0, ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.]

No. 266.

1.-Annual Camp:

The Infantry Company will go into Camp at Fanling on Friday, December

17th, 1920

Attendance in camp is a condition for efficiency.

All members are requested to make an effort to parade at Kowloon Railway Station at 5 p.m. on Friday, December 17th, to catch the 3.20 p.m. train.

Dress: Marching order, ie., helmets, rifes, bayonets, belts, sidearms, pouches, braces, haversacks, waterbottles, great- coats, tunics, shorts, putties and boots,

Arms: Must be drawn from Corps Hrad quarters to-day, between 9 am, and 12 noon only.

2.-Artillery Company.

City and Taikoo Sections will parade at Valunteer Headquarters on Tuesday, De cember 1st, 1028, at 5.30 p.m. for Gʻ Howitzer Gun drill and Signalling instruc- tion. Dress: Mufti.

Transport for Taikoo Section will be at Taikoo Dock, East Gate, tit 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 21st, 1926.

3.—Engineer Company,

Lights Section will parade at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, December 3rd, for lecture on Prin. ciples of Coast Delence" by Major E. O. Alabaster, R.E. Dress: Mufti.

Field Sections will parede at Volunteer Headquarters at 5,30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 22nd, for lecture on Field Re- connaissance. Dress: Mufti.

Signal Section will parade at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on the follow- ing dates:

alonday, December 23th: Lecture D 3.

Part I.

Thursday, December 23rd: Lecture D. 3.

Part II.

Dress: Mufti.

4.-Armoured Car Company, Signallers will parade independently under Corpl. Read

There will be no further official parades until after January 1st, 1927.

B-Infantry Company. Parade at Volunteer Headquarters on Tuesday, December 21st, at 5.30 p.m., all Company N.C.O.'s under C.S.M. Slattery, and Musketry Class for all those detailed by Platoon Commanders under Sergt. Barham at the Miniature Range. There will be a Company Lewis Gun Class under Lee.-Sergt. Jarvis, M.C., also at Head-

quarters.

There will be no parade on Tuesday, December 28th.

6.-Reserve Company. Miniature Range at Corps Headquar ters is at the disposal of the Reserve Co. en Monday, December 20th, at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Multi...

7.-Parades.

No parades will be held at Corps Head, quarters from, Friday, December 24th 19es to Saturday, January 1st, 1927, in clusive, until further orders, except under private arrangements by O's C. Units.

6.-Promcuons and Appointments,

(a.) The following extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette dated. December 10th, 1928, is published for in- formation:-

"H.E. the Governor has been pleased to make the following promotions and appointments in the Hong Kong Volun teer Defence Corps:

Capt. Robert Melville Smith, M.B.E. to be Major, with effect from March 14th, 1996.

.C.S.M. Alphonso McCoan Thornhill to be Lieutenant, with effect froit Decem ber 5th, 1996.

2nd-Lieut. Eric John Roderick Mit- chell to be Lieutenant, with effect from December 8th, 1928.

(b.) The following promotions will take effect from December 17th, 1990:---

No. 6 Platoon

No. 309 Lee.-Carpl. G. H Cuthill to -be Corporal

"No. 7. Platoon, “", No. 642 Serge R. Bell (Headquarters) to act as Platoon-Sergeant of No. 6 Platoon.

No. 221 Lec.-Corpl. J. C. Fletcher to be Lance-Sergeant.

Reserve Company?“ No. 574 Sergt. J. A. G. Leask to be Company-Sergeant-Major."

9.-Transfer.

No. 544 Spr. A F. May, Engineer Co., is permitted to transfer to the Armoured Car Company (Motor Cycle Section), as from November 25th, 1996.

10-L375,-

The following are granted leave of ab Bence from the Corps."

No. 674 Corpl, W. M. Lyons, MI. Co.,. from December 18th, 1928, to February 28th, 1997.

No. 618 Pie. P. Morrison, No. 7 Pla- toon, from December 7th, 1928, to De- cember 31st, 1027.

No. 21 Corp. F. C. Goodman, No. 6 Platoon, from January 1st, 1927, "to De- cember 31st, 1927.

No. 911 Spr. J. M. Shroff, Engineer Co., from "December 2nd, 1926, to January 31st, 1997.

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(b.)-No. 300 Pte. J. O. McLaggan, No.: Platoon, is permitted to resign from the Corps, as from December 14th, 1928, having completed 5 years and 9 months service in the Corpe.

No. 803 Lce. Corpl F. Clemes, Armour- ed Car Co. is permitted to resign from the Corps, as from December 14th, 1928, on leaving the Colony.

G. H. H. B, Captain,

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