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The Royal Army Pay Corps Journal

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No. 15.

Autumn, 1934

R.A.P.C. Officers' Club

Annual General Meeting.
The Seventh Annual General Meeting of
the Royal Army Pay Cor:ps Officers' Club
\\'as held at 80, Pall Mall, S.W.I, on
Friday, 6th July, 1934.
At the request of Colonel W. S. Mackenzie, C.B.E., who was unable to b~ present
at the comm~ncement of the meeting, the
Chair was taken by Lieut.-Colonel G. H.
Charlton, M.C.
Seventeen officers ",ere
present.
1.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read, confirm~d and signed.
2. It was proposed by Captain B. Sant
and seconded by Captain O . D. Garratt,
M.C., that the accounts for the previous
yea r be passed. This was agreed.
3. The secretaries of the various Sports
Sections gave details of their proposed
activities c1l1ring the coming year and ~x
plained certain items of expenditure.
Owing to the increased activiti~s of the
Club in all Sections the question of raising
th~ sUbscriptions of home members by
2S. 6d . Per year was discussed. It was decided that this should be br:ougb,t up at the
next Annual Meeting.
4. It was proposed by Lieut.-Colonel J.
Sawers that Lieut.-Colonel 1. P. Brickman
and Captain R. H. Sayers, M.C., should be
asked to continue in their capacity as
honorary auditors and be accord~d a hearty
vote of thanks for their work this yea!.
This was seconded by Captain W . Marshall
and was unanimously carried .
5. It \vas qgreed tha t the Corps Sports
Week in 1935 should be from Monday,
July 1St to Saturday, July 6th, and tha.t the
Corps Dinner should be hdd on Fnday.
July 5th. The allocation of days to Sports
Sections was relegated to th~ Sports Committees, and it was agreed that if necessary
each section should circularise the members
to discover their views.
6. Colonel W. S. Mackenzie proposed a
vote of thanks to the b,onorary secretary Qf
the Club and honorary secretaries of the
Sports Sections for their work during the
past year. This was seconded by Colonel
R. A. B . Young and c~rried.

So, Pall, Mall, London, S.W.I.

September, 1934.
With much regret we announce th e death
of Major Genera l Sir Claude Arthur Bray,
K.C.M.G., C.B., \Nhich took place in Dawlish on 25th August.
The deceased transferred to the Army
Pay Department in 1891 and during the
Great War was Paymaster-in-Chief of the
British Expeditionary Force in France.
Further detai ls of General Bray's distinguished service in the Army wi ll be
found elsewhere in tbis issue.
At the funeral which took plac~ in the
parish church at Dawlish on 29th August,
I,ieut.-Colooel P. L. Oldham was presen t
to represent the Royal Army Pay Corps.
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A new Army Pay Office was opened at
Khartoum on the 1st September, 1934, for
the carrying out of cash accounting duties
(Command and Regimental Services), in
rt:spect of the British troops in the Sudan.
Por the purposes of control, administration
and provision of staff, the office is und~r
the orders of the Command Paymaster 111
Egypt. *
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Our Chess editor embarks for China thi s
troopillg season, and takes ~I'ith him 0:11'
hest wishes. Perhaps he \nll succeed 111
tracing the ga me back to its n~yst~rious
origin said to be orienta l, and \Vdl put us
in po;session of the true facts in the next
issue. Donhtless the "Curious in Chess"
series COli ici sl1stain a further contribution
from East of Suez, so next time we may
hore for an orienta l problem, or Chinese
J'uzzle.
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CORPS CIUCKET 1934.

VERSUS ROYAL ARMY CHAPLAINS
DEPARTMENT.
Played at Aldershot on 29th and 30th
Jun e, 19311-.
The R.A .Ch.D. I\'on the toss and batted
first b ut this did not prove an advantage,
as they were dismissed for 77 runs on a
difficult wicket. Sgt. Grant bowled really
well. He foune. a sj)ot and used it cleverly,
making the ball get up sha rp ly, five batsmen being ca ught in consequence; in addition he clean bowled fo ur men and
finished up wit h an analysis of nine \I'ickets
for twenty-three runs. Captain 1\IIalpass
bowled steadily at the other end and it \I'as
not necessary to ch.ange the bo\\'lin g . Th e
Rev. Todd batted well for t\lenty -seven.
but the bowling was never mastered, and
only tll'O other batsmen reached double
figures.
Our batting was not at all brilli ant in
the first innings but thanks to Colonel
Lightfoot, Captains Treglown and Marden,
Sergeants Enclacott and G rant, lye secured
a useful lead of thirty-seven runs. The
Reverends Steele and Foster bowh:~ d well
and the bowling was never collared .
In their second innings the P adres made
a disastrous start losing four lVickets for
s~ven te en mns. The Reverends G ladstone
and Steele then held the fort until stumps
lI'ere dra\l'u for the day with th~ score at
thirty-eight. Continuing their partnersh ip
Oil the second day, w ith the \I'icket play in /!
easier, it was not until the score reached
ninety-nin e that th e next wicket fell. The
Reverend Steele made a grand seventy-one
and the Reverend G ladstone a v~ry ll sefu l
twenty-eight.
Capta in Evers took both
their w ickets, one bein g well caught by
Captain Eynon. A colla pse followed and
the innings closed with the score at J2.1 . The
Corps needed eigh ty-nil1e runs to Il'in and
Captain Clowes and Pte. Baker quickly
knocked off the runs without being
separated, both batting confidently, making
forty-tl1Tee each . This was Baker's first
appearance for th~ Corps; a promisin g

sta rt . It was a 1110st enjoyab le game, 1I"0n

by ten \I'ickets which makes llS all sq uare
with the P a dres.
J ext year's game wi ll be
a keen one.
RA. CHAPLAINS DEPT.

1st Innings.

He v. P . M . B l'umw eIl , c. Clowes , b. Gra nt

9
R e v. n . W . T odd , b. C I'ant .. .
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27
Rev . J. H . Ra m urd . c. Gra nt, h. Malpass
6
. ..
1
Hev. H . .-L Ain wOl1h , b. Gran l
He v. J . Melhuish . c. Enda cott . b. 'Gra nt
0
R e v J . J . tee le. c. Cl owes. b. Gra nt
0
R e v. D. ll . L . F oster. b. Gra nt,
1
R ev . T . W . H enle. b. Gnt!1t ...
16
R e v. T\: . J\ . Punt on. c. IVlnrd pn, b. Gnmt ...
1
R e v. W . E. CLlds ton e c. Li g htfoo t , b Gran t 14
R e v FT T T o vey, 1I0t. ou t
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0
"Ex t ra s
2
Tot a l

77

R.A. CHAPLAINS DEPT.

2nd Innings.

P. ]\[ B"umwell , c. Baker , b. En.d acot,t

1
H . W . T od(l. run out ...
0
J . H . llama I'd. b. Gmnt
...
...
3
H. A. A iJ1 sw orth , c. Bak er, b. G ra nt
0
J : lIfelhu ish. 1101, out ..
...
6
,1. .T: Stcele, c. low es . b. Eve rs
71
D. ll . L. Foster. h. End acott ...
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T . W . H eal e, l.b.w .. h. Malpa ss
6
R ev . K. ,\ . "Pu ll t.on. c. Li gl1tfoot. b. Enda cott 1
R e v. \iV. E G ladston c. Eyn on. b. Evers 21l
Rev H. T. 'ro ve " , Co a lld b. Endacott"
0
E xtras
7
Rev.
Hev.
R ev.
R ev.
R e v.
R e v.
B v.
R e v.

125

' Total
R.A.P.C .

1st Innings.

Ca pt. A. N. Ever -. c. 'H eal e, h. Steele

Ca pt. J.B . Clow e . I). Steele .. ,
Capt,. C. J . H. 'r rcg lowII , c. Bal'tlard. b. Stee le
Col. L . J Lightfoot. c. H col e. h. Barnal'd
Capt. H. \N . T. M,trden. b. Fost er
Capt. J. S . EYllon , b. St ee le ...
SKt . F. Gt:nnt, c. H.e a l ~, b. Fo s ~e l'
Sgt. . Endu cott. 110t out
...
Pt e . .-\ . B a ke r. c. Todd . h. F os ter
Sgt,. G. D. Egan. c. Mclhui sh . b. Fost e r
.Ca pt. H.
:M,\ lpass, b. F ost e r
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Total
FI.~.P C.

295

4
8
26
18

13
6
12
10
5
0
6
6

... 114
2nd tnnings .. .

Ca pt. J. H . Clo wes . not out

Pte. A. Ba ke r, no t out ...
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43

Tot.al for 0 wi ket .

.... 89

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JOURNAL

THE

R.A . O.C. 1St Innings.

Col. L . L . Hoa re, c. Li g htfoot, b. E vers
Ma jor G . W . Palmer . b. Grant
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Lt. -Col. J. H . D. Sheppa rd , c. Trrglowll , l>.
Endacott
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Capt. L . C. D . Robinson , l.b. w., b. Roge rs
Pte. \7.,/ . BOl'well , not ou t
...
Lt. C. \N . Phil lpotts, b . Grant
Cpl. E. J . K ell y , 15. Grant
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Pte. A . La wrence, c. G ra nt, b . Ma lpass. ...
Major H . R. Skinner . c. Clowes, b. Malpn ss
P te. T . Clnrk , b. Clowes.. .
L j Cpl. A . Sa nd s, h . Clowes
Extras

VERSUS R OYAL ARMY ORDNANCE

CORPS.
Played at Aldersh ot on 2nd and 3rd July,
1934
The R. A.M.C. kindly lent us their
ground for this match and "e are very
grateful to them for doing so.
Having won the toss the R.A.O.C.
batted first and were given a good start by
Colonel Hoare and Major Palmer, wh.o put
on seventy-one runs for the first .\,\!cket.
Colonel Hoare con tinued to bqt bnlhantly
and received excellent support from Pte .
Borwell. The former was rather unlucky to
miss a century by two runs: the latter w~s
undefeated aft er scoring eighty runs 111
good s tyle.
Our reply to a total of 244 was satisfactory, especially as Captain Treglown ~ad
fractured a finger taking a catch and faIled
to score. The feature of the innings was a
well played sixty by Captain Evers wh o
\\'as unlucky to be caught off a ~afd shot
to leg. Time now became an Im portant
factor and our opponents had to force the
pace to \\in the ,m atch: in doi ng so they
" 'ere dismissed for 139. Colonel Sheppard
an d Capt. Robinson hit h ard and scored
well . but Sergeant Grant bowled. exc~l
lentl y to take seven w i cket~ for thlrtY-:,lx
runs . Set to get J63 to Will. our battl11g
broke down and w~ were dismiss~d for
8~. the R.A.'O.C. winn in g b y 79. Colonel
Lightfoot despite a strained leg batted well ,
hut apart from Captain Evers . nobodv else
rencheCl double figures .
LjCp!. Sands.
Ptes. Clarke and Lawrence all howled very
well for our qnponents, who are lucky to
h ave such a trio .
Th e Corps is greatly indebted to Colonel
W. S. Mackenzie . Lieut.-Colonel T. L.
Rogers. members of the R.A .P.C . Deta~h
ment . Aldershot Command and the. lad.les
,,ho vvorked so hard to make the socIal SIde
such a big success. Catering arrang-eme!,ts
for this !!ame were excell ent. reflect111.1!
!!reat credit on all concerned. Five hundreCl
teas were served Cluring the match and
coolin g- drinks which were much aDpredated.
Th e weath er was grand at
Aldershot on all four days.

Tot a l

98
19

7
18
80
4
2

2
2
8

.. . 244

R.A O.C. 2nd Innings.

Co l. L. L . H oa re. b. G rant .. .
20
Ma jor G. W . Palm er . b. Mal pa ss .. .
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Lt. -Gol. J H . D . Sh eppa rd , c. and b. Grant 39
ra pt. L . 0. D. R ohin son , b. Gra n!.
43
Pte. W . BOl' well , c. Malpa ss, b . G ra.nt ... 3
Li eut. C. W. Phillp'ott s , c. E y non . U. G rant 4
COlpl. E . J . K e.ll y , I.b .w . , h. M" rden
4
P t.e. A. La wrence, b. Ma lpass
3
Majol' H. R. Skinn er. b. G rant
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6
Pte. T . Chuk. c Ma rc\ en, h. G ra nt
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L / CIJI. A . Sallds, not out.
101
E .<t.ras

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ARMY

PAY

VERSUS A RlVfY ED UCATI ONAL

CORPS.
Played at Shorncliffe on 30th a nd 31St Jul y ,
1934
The A .E.C . \\Ion the toss and Capta in
Rusbridge and Sergeant Friend pl:oceeded
to dig themselves ill to some I uq ose, as
they were still tog ether a t lu nch tim e,
having scored 94 runs in 90 minutes. When
tile score had reached 124 Pte. Ram say Holden g ot Captain Rusbridg e l.b.w . : a t
148 he brilliantl y ran out Colonel John ston
and at 158 well caught Sgt. Friend at extra
cover, thereby consideraby altering the
position . Eig ht wickets wer~ down for 194,
but then the tail wagged to carry the score
to 250 . The fast bowling of Captain Hud son proved too good for ollr bats men and
he took all ten \Nickets for 54 runs, a g rea t
bow lin g feat . Serg eant Endacott a n d Pte.
Ra rnsay -Ho lden batted well and Sergeant
Grant produced a few lusty hits .

CORPS

J OURNAL

VIl e were asked to follow on and tbanks

to a g reat century by Captain Clo\\"es, " 'e
sa ved the innin gs defeat settin g our opponents 78 to g et to \rin . Ca pta in Clo\\'es hit
thirteen fours in his innin gs and \\'as severe
on any ball either uncler or over pitch ed ;
Captain Hudson a o-a in bowled \\'ell and
took seven wickets for 74.
Col onel Johnston and Captain Rusbridge
took the score to 54 for th e first \ricket,
Sergea nt Friend was bo wled a t 73 and th e
winnin g hit by Co lonel J ohnston, ga ve
victory to his side by eig ht wickets. Our
g round fieldin g reached a hig h standard
in this match . Pte . RamsaY-Holden was
brilliant a nd made a most promising debut.
We are very gratefu l to the A.E.C. for
their hospitality . It was a pleasant game,
on a nicely situated g rollnd. Our hosts
were at home to the Ga rrison 011 the first
afternoon ancl the band of the 2nd Battn .
Th e Buffs rend ered a pleasing selection of
music.

.. . 139

R.A.P . C. 1st Innings.

Ca rt. J . H. Clowes. b . La II'rence...
Pte. A . Baker . c. Skllln er , b. Law l'en e .. .
Capt. A. N. Evers, c. Law ren ce, b. Sand
Gapt. C. J . H . Treglown , h. (' lark ...
Capt. H. W . T. Mard en. c. Skmn er, b. Sa nd s
Col. L. J. Li ghtfoot, h. BOl-well
Sgt . C. End acott, b. Sand s ...
Lt.. -Co l. T . L. Rogers, not out
Capt. J . S. E ynon. b. Sand. ...
Rergt . F . Grant. b. Cla rk
...
Ca pt. H. H . Ma lpa s. b. Cla d ,
Extras

Total

ROYAL

21
3()

60
0

15
11
15
17

28
1~

... 221

R. A.P.C. 2nd Innings .

5
Capt,. J . H. Clowes, b. Sa nd s
4
Pte. A . B H.k er , b. Clnrk
18
CfLpt. A . N . E vers , b. Clark .
...
Ca pt. C. J. H . TreglowTl , did not ha t. ... 5
Capt, H. VV . T . Ma rden, c. Cl.a rk , U. Sands 22
Col. L . J. Li ght root , h. Clark
...
8
Sgt. C. Endacott , c. Bor.well . b . Cla rk
Lt . -Co l. T . L. Roge rs, st,um ped Slo nncr . b.
1
H oa re.. .
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...
...
8
C:a pt. J . S. E yn on, c. and b. Sa nd s
1
ergt. F . Gmn t . h. ands
2
Capt. H . H. Malpflss, uot out.
9
E xtras

Total

29 6

83

P hoto I,),:. C(1/~ c.~ P ,,/dell, A lders/w/,

The Royal Army Pay Corps Cricket Team, 1934.

Sl'.I NOI N(;: S.Q. M.S. W . E. Wil son (Umpire), Sgt. C. En clacott , Capt. H . H. i\hlpass. Sgt . G. D .
Egan , Capt. J . H . Clowes, Sgt. P . W. Gr ant, Capt. H. W. 1'. Ma rden . .P te . 1\. Ba ker, Sgt. F . Ca mp
(Scorer) .
SITTI NG : Capt. R. S. Elli cott, L t .-Col. T. L . Rogers, Capt . C. J . H . Treg lo wn, Colon el L . J . Ligh tfoot ,
Capt. J . S. EynoIi', Capt. A . N. Evers, Lt.-Col. G. H. Ch arlton .

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1st Innings.

Sergt. Friend, c. Ramsay Holden , b. E nda 61

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Capt. R. A. l-tusb rid ge, I.b .w .. b. R :\msay 80
Holden
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Col. A. C. John ston , run out
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Capt. H. R. Kirkwood , c. Baker , b. Endacot,t
7
Capt. M. H . Cork , run out ...
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\1.1.0. T. E . Parslow, c. R am say Holden ,
b Endacott ...
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25
Col. C. G. Maude, c. E ynon , b . Ma l pass
4
Capt. r. J. Chambed ain. c. End acot,t , b.
1
Ma lpass
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2
Capt. G. W. P. l<imm , c. Baker, b . Gra nt
5
W.O. J. C. Redmond , c. Enda cott, b. Mal 14
CaptE. V: H.
Extras

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250

Total

A . E. CORPS.

2nd Innings.

Capt. R. A. Rusbridge, I. b.\\,., h. Rogers

Go l. A. C . John ston , not, out
Se rgL. Fliend , b. M:Hden
W.O. T. E . P a rslow . not out
E xtras
Total for 2 wickets

R.A . P.C.

29
28
16
1

5
79'

1st Innings .

Ca pt. J . H . Clowes c. J ohn ston , b. Hud son 11

Pte. A. Baker , c. K irkwo od . h. Hud son ... 10
Pte. A. Rnm say H olden, c. Cork , b. Hu d
22
son
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2
Capt. H . W . T. Ma rden. b. Hudson
o
Sqt. E . Gilhert, b . Hud so n ...
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4
Capt . J . S. E ynon . c. Kirk wood, b. Hurlson
14
Capt. R. L. L. In gpen! c. Friend. b . Hudson
6
Lt .. Col.. T. L. Rogel's. b. Hudson ...
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25
Sgt. C. End acott , b. Hudson
16
Sgt. F. W . G ra nt" b. Hud son
5
Capt. H . H. Ma lpass, not ou f
12
Extras
... 127

Total
R.A.P.C.

2nd Innings.

Pte. A. BakPr, c .an d b. Hudson .. .

. .. 10
('apt . J. H. Clowes . c Kirk woo~. h. Hud son 107
11
Pte. A. RamsavHolden. h. KII'k wood
4
Capt. H. 'vV. T. Marder. . b. Hudson
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Sgt. C . Endacott, c. K irkwood , h . Hu dson 13
o
S~t . E. Gilbert, c. and I . Hud son ."
1
Capt. J. S . E ynon, b. Hud son
6
Capt. R. L . L . In gpen, b . Pat'slow
6
L t.Col. T . T,. Rogers. b. Parslow
16
Rergt. F. 'fiN . Grant, b. Hudson
3
Capt. H . H . Malpas . . n ot out
23
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Total

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J OURNAL

Wh at of the future?
During the past two seasons fiv e ll ~\I'
players IJ a ve done \ye}1 in the Cor ps SIde
and togeth er with the more expen enced
p layers sllOuld enable us to field a good
tea m next season . W e n eed a fast bowler
an d the Selecti on Committee would be glad
to hear of one or two.
O ur batting was steadier this yea.r ; nin e
batsmen averaged double figures, WIth Captains Clowes and Evers the most successful.
Sergeant Gra nt easi ly gained chief !) O\y] in a honours by takin g twenty-t\\'o vnckets
fo~ 228 runs; he was ably supported by
Captain Ma lpass and Ser~eant En~lacott.
Captain Eynon kept WIcket ad m~rabl ~ ,
conceding onl y t wenty-four byes 111 SIX
innin gs.

LAWN TENNIS.
The Annual Tournament was held in
the grounds of th e R oehampton. Club on
th e 3rd a nd 4th of July . The ent.nes for. th e
several evel1ts were smaller than 111 prevI?u~
years and the attendance on the 4th (Ladl es
Day), was disappointing .
Results : Level Sin gles (Musson Cha ll en ge Cup) .
Won by Captain T. H . Sweeney (holder)
\Ih o b eat Ma jor F. T. Baines 6 / 4, 6/ 8, 6/ T.
H.a ndi cap Doubles (Two ~u ps prese nted by
Col. W. S . MackenZIe, C.B .E.).
Lt .-Col. N . Forde and Capt. R . C. de V.
Askin beat Capt. R . L. L. In gpen and
Cant. H . G. B. filling 6/8 , 6/4 , 6/ I.
Handicap Singles.
.
Major E. C. Etherington beat Major R.
G . Stanham 6/4, 8/6.
1
For this eve nt a p int tankard emblazonec
\Iith th e Corps crest was presented by
Major F. T . Baines.
Mixed Doubl es, Ameri,can Tournament. .
W on by Major R. H . Smyth and Nh s.
Sant.
cl by
Prizes for this event \I'ere pre. ente
Lt Col. A. B. Cliff.
The somewha t small entry for th e Lawn
T ennis events \Vas to ~orne ~x ten t clue t.o
.
th e absence
0f a llum b et' .0 f our tennIS
I
players who were due to play golf on. ~ le
The Tennis competltlOll
following day
. has always b een a rather
I
a t R oehampton
. espeC1.a
. 11 y f
strenuous affaIr
01 those W)o
t
reach the later stages of the several even 5

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THE R OYAL ARMY

and it is perhaps too much. to E;xpect t~10S~
tennis p layers who are enthusiastic g olf rs
to participate in the t,,o days Tennis at
Roehalllpton \I'ith the prospec t of an ea rly
journey the following day to compete ill
their favour ite game. It is hoped t hat the
arrangements in future yea rs \I'ill provid e
for one day's rest between th ~ two fix tUres.
H..A .P.C. 1J. A.E.C.
A match \Vas p layed again st t he Arm y
Edllcationa l Corps at S horncl iffe on Ist
Aug nst, I 934, following the two days
cricket. We suffered a rather heavy. defeat
losing by eig ht m atches to one . The result
\\'as due to a number of unfortunate hap penings wh ich prevented our crack players
takin g part in the match, a succession or
casualties \\"hich p uts even the Test team
into the shade. Thanks a re dUE; to severa l
offi cers w ho fill ed th e gaps and saved th e
Corps from t he neces ity of scn tch ing .
The team \I'as completed by the incln sion
of Sgt. Knight (Woolwich) and Sgt. Endacott (Blackdo\l'n) " 'h o tog ether \\Ion our
one even t.
Rhine Army Cup.
Th e final stages of this competition \I'ere
piayed a t A ldershot on Friday, 3 Tst
August. The following represen tp.c1 the
variollS Commands .
Northern-Sergt. C. Broo];:e.
Southern---Serg t. J . H. Hanson.
Eastern-Sergt. S. Vi . J. Knight.
Aldershot---S /Sergt. T . A . W . Bogg is .
S~mi-Fina l s : Sgt. Knight bea t Sgt. Hallson 6/ 3, 9/7 .
S / Sgt. Boggis bea t Sgt. Brooke 6/0 6/ T.
Final : Staff ergt. Boggis beat ~ergt. Kll'i g ht,
6/3, 6/1, 6/2.
The fin al was a well con tested ga me an (l
Sergt. Knight put up a stem er opposition
than th e fin al score would suggest. Staff
ergt. Boggis is to be congrn tula ted on
lI"innin.g th is ~ ur for the fourth tim e.

P AY

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J OURNAL

FIXTURE LIST, 1934 .35.

1934
3 rcl Oet. 2nd 1'.13. R.A. at H 01l1e.
rot h Oct.
R .A.F. (Uxbridg e) at Uxbric1ge .
17th Oct.
R.A.S.C. (Alder hot) a t H ome .
24th Oct. War Office Ow ls, Away.
3Jst Oct.
1ili tary College of Science a t Home.
7th Nov. T .B.R.E. at Chatham.
14th Nov.
Depot , Royal Fusili ers at H ome.
21St Nov.
Delot, East S urreys at Kingston .
sth Dec . Jst T.B.R.A. at Wool\lich.
;2 th Dec.
3rc1 Bn . R.T.C. at H ome.
19th Dec. Optimists, Away.
193.')
2nd Ja n .
R. A .F. (Uxbridge) a t H ome.
9th Jan .
Depot, R oya l Fusili ers at H oun slow.
r6th Jan. T .B.R.E . at H ome.
23rcl Jan.
2n d Bn. R .T.C . at Farnborough.
30th Jan. 1st 1'.B. R. A. at H om e .
6th Feb.
Militar y College of Science at Woohdch.
I3 t h Feb.
Depot, East Surreys a t H ome.
20th Feb. 2nd T.B.R.A. at Woolwich .
27th Feb.
2n d Bn. H.. W arwick R. at H ome .
6th March.
R.A.S.C . (A ldershot) at Aldershot .
r ,1 th March. War Office O\\ls a t H ome.
20th March . 3rd Bn. R.T.C. at L y dd.
27th March. Optimists at H ome.
, rd April.
~ 2nrl Bn. R . Warwick Regt . at Wok ing .
THE ALDERSHOT TATTOO, 1935.

It is proposed n ext y ea r to ex tend th e perform

'l ll reS of th e Tattoo from , ix to ~i ght and I.he
foll owing al'e th e da tes of th e fu ll ches ~ rchearsa l"
:1 nd perform a nces of t h 'Tnttoo. which wil l b,
prod uced a usual. a t Rn ~h mo or Arena , Ald ershob: Tu esda v. Jun e Illh. - Vu lJ dress da vli ght re
h e~ rsf1 1. open fr eC' to parti es of chi ldren from
sch ools on invita t ion.
\Vecln Esdn.v. Jun e 12t h. -Full dress night r p
hearsnl. open to th e general puhli c at redu ced
admi ss ion charges.
Thu lsrlay . Jun c 13t.h. to Sa turday. Jun e 151,h. and
Tn e. day. Jnn e 18th , to Fla1 nl"qav. Jnne 22I1 rl.-
Pu blic . p'erfo)'Jnao ces of th e Tattoo.

R.A.P.C. HOCKEY CLUB .

Arm v Hockey Tournam ent.
A team is bein g entered for the Anll~
Hocke~' Totlrnament. Th e composition of
this team is 6 office rs anc1 S O .R' s . and th e
committee of the club \I'ou ld be g lad to
hea r of any ne,,"comers who play hockey
and wou ld care for a trial. Names shou ld
be se l]t to Cant . J. L. Oliver , Eastern COlllllland Pay O ffice, 80, Pall Ma ll S.W.I.
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R.A.P.C. GOLFING SOCIETY.

The Summer Meeting was held at the
Went\\"orth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey,
on Thursday, July 5th, the number attending being 28. Singles were played in the
morning on the East Course and Foursomes
ill the afternoon on the West Course.
W~ther conditions were again very favourable, though rather warm . The fairways
were very dry as was inevitable following
the long period of drought, but the greens,
though fast, were in excellent condition.
The results and leading scores were as
follows :The 'Riley' Cleek. (Best gross score .)
Gross
81
Major C. N . B~dllall
84
Major R. G. Stanham
84
Capt. A. N. Evers
The Toiler' Cup and Captain's Prize.
(Best net score.)
Gross .
N et.
Lieut. S. Holman (24)
91
67
Major C. N . Bednall (7)
81
74
84
74
Ca pt. A. N. Evers (10)
Ca pt. G. Haggard (26)
100
74
Bogey of the course is 75
The Captain's Prizes for the Bogey Foursomes \"ere won by Capt. A. N. Evers and
Capt. G . Haggard with a score of 3 down .
The prizes were presented b y Colonel
Young, after which the Annual General
Meeting was held.
The minutes of the last Annual General
Meeting were read and confirmed.
A telegram from Lt.-Col. Brickman
apologising for absence >;\'as read .
A heari-y vote of thanks to Major Bednall for carrying out the duties of Captain
for the past year, and for Pi ~senting pnzes
for the winner of the best net score in
Singles and for the winners of the Bogey
Foursomes was carried unanimously.

PAY

CORPS

JOURNAL

THE

SINGLES.
R.A.P.C.
E. & A. DEPT .
Major Meek
t Mr. Harby
Major Bednall
I
Mr. Kench
0
(4 & 3)
o Mr. Smart (5 & 3) 1
Capt. Sweeny
Lt.-Co!. Brickman
I
Mr. Chambers
0
(6 & 5)
o Mr. Stewart (2&r) J
Capt. Garratt
Lt. -Cb!, Grant
o
Mr. T owell
I
(7 & 5)

ARMY PAY

Office
team
I
I . was
. uufortuna tely one silor t ,
t lUS ma ,lI1g It necessary to r>lay on~ of
the ~atches as a three-ball. The result -",as
a WID for tl:e W~r Office by 6t matches to
S!, the detaIls belllg as follows :_

Club, and the Summer IVleeting, 193 5, at

Wentworth.
A proposition by Lt.-Col. Cockburn for
holding a Spring Meetin g \\'as dis
cussed, and after consideration it was decided to circularise all members to ascertain their views .
.
It was decided to institute a starting
sheet for all future meetin gs.
Votes of thanks were accord ~ d to Maj ors
Stanham, Bednall and Meek, and Capt.
Sweeny for representing the Corps in th e
Army
Team
Championships
at St.
Andrews, and to Colonel Youn g for pre~ iding at this meeting.
Autumn Meeting. The Autumn Meetin g
\\ill be held at the Aldershot Command
G olf Club on Monday, October 1st. Full
particulars and entry forms have been circulated.
MATCHES.
Versus Exchequer and Audit Dept. Pl ayed
at PurIey Downs on Thursda)7, 31st IHa v.
This \\'as a six a side match a nd resulted in
a win for th e R .A.P.C . by st match es to
.3t , the detailed results bein g as follows :-

ROYAL

SINGLES.
R.A.P.C.
Major Stanham
(3 & 2)
Major Meek
Capt. Milling
(4 & ' 2)
Capt. Sweeny
(I up)
Capt. Howard
Capt. Garratt

WAR OFFICE.
I

Capt. Ransford
Capt. J ohnstone

o
I

Col. Cole

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr .

Lt.-Col. Golding
Brigadier Ml1sson

(3 & I)

0
0

CORPS

J OURNAL

FOURSOMES.
Stanham & Meek
Ransford & John(3 & 2)
I
stone
o
Sweeny & Howard (I up)
I
Col. Cole
o
Apps & Grant
Garratt & Golding 0
(7 & 6)
I
Howell & Simmons
Milling & Musson 0
(I up)
I
2

COMPETITIONS.
'Campbell Todd' Cup.
The competition fOl: this Cup runs from
1st July. to 31st December, and is on handi cap agalllst bogey. The number of strokes
take? ~t each hole must be shewn. There is
no IIml.t to the number of cards which can
be put III by each .competitor, but they must
be forwarded to the Hon. Sec . in the calendar month in which they were taken out .
Half-Yearly Spoon-June 30th, 1934,
pres~nted by Lt.-Col. E. W . Hart-Cox.
WIDner :-Lt.-Col. H. Golding 2 up .
Capt. O. D. Garratt, I down. '

Apps
0
Apps
t
Grant (I up) J
Simmons
(6 & 4)
Col. HowelJ (5&4)

Eastern Command, Aldershot Command & War Office Knock-Out Competition.

1st Round.
2nd Round.
3rd Round.
Final.
4th Round.
Capt. Marshall (3 6 ) }
.
(28)
OlIver w/o
Capt. Oliver

Lt. Holman
I Capt. Buck

(24) 1.
(26) J Holman (I up)

} Olivec (, & ,)
} Oliv" (, up)

Lt-Col. Hart-Cox (19) } Broadhurst (3 & 2)

Capt. Broadhurst (lb)
Major Stanham
Capt. Garratt

(6) )
(14)
Stanham (I up)

} St.nh.m (, up)
FOURSOMES.
Harby .& T oweJl
(2 & I)
Garratt & Grant
0
Meek & Sweeny
K ench & Smart
(I up)
I
tewart & ChamBednall & Brickman
bers
(5 & 4)
I

The following were elected or re-elected

as Officers for 1934-35:Captain-Major T. A. Meek.
Hon. Sec.-Captain O. D. Garratt.
Committee-Lt.-Col. T. L. Rogers,
Lt.-Col. 1. P . Brickman, Major R.
G. Stanham.

Lt-Col. Brickman (I2)}

.
Ca pt. Milling
(10)
Bnckman (4 & 2)

Capt. Ingpen
Capt. Woods

Q:
::I

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Versus War Office. Played at Effingham

Manor on Tuesday, 26th June. This was
arranged as eight a side, but the War
300

]j

Lieut. Thies
Major Meek

It was decided to hold the Autumn Meeting, 1934, at the Ald!:rshot Command Golf

l~

} Meek (, & c)
(13) }
(12)
Woods (3 & 2)

Capt. Sweeny
(6) }
Lt.-Col. Rogers (14)
Rogers (2 & I)

Capt. Sayers
(24) } Major Bednall
(7) }
Lt.-Col. Hackett (3 6 ) Capt. Sayers (5 ~ 4)
Bednall (8 & 6)
301

.-.
-.r
~

l Bednal1
J

';

~
Q)

(2 up)

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1'HE ROvAL AR1VIV PAY CORPS J OURNAL

Corps News-Officers
From "The Londo'n Gazette"
ROYAL ARMY PAY CORP~

Lt. (Asst. Paym.) F. W. Coop r to be Capt. ( .ss t.

P ,tymr.) (July 3).
Lt. (Asst. Pay'lnr.) C. H . Parratt to be Capt.
(.A ~s t. Pa Illr.) (July 18) . _
Capt. J. R Burne, R.A. , to be Capt. and Paymr.
(on prob.) {April 3).
LL. J. P. N. Whitty (Inte R Sussex R). P ay mr.
(on prob.) to 'be t emp. apL. (Aug ust 10) .
Lt. (Asst . Payrqr,) J. F eehally to be Capt. (Asst.
Paymr.) (Augu st 15).
.
Maj. and Paymr. H. A. D . Bockett-Pugh retIr es
on ret. pay (Augu t 21) .
L t,. R. "vV. T . Marden, M.B.E , f!'Om Dorset, R ,
to I e Lt. and Paymr. (Au gust 22, 1932) , a nd to be
t emp. Capt. (Augnst 22. 1933): Lt. a nd Paymr.
(temp. C::tlt.) H. W. T. Mard r n, NLl3.E. , to be
C::tpt. and Paymr. (August 2'2), WIth sen. August
22, 1932.
Half-yearly Brevet .
Th e fo Jl owi.ng p,l'omotion is made (July 1) :-.
To be Bt. Major. Capt. and P aymr. F . T. Bames,
RA.P.C.

Annual Dinner
Th e 14th Annual Dinner of the Royal
Army Pay Corps was held at the Naval
and Military Club, Piccadilly on 6th July,
1934. In additipl1 to Col. Commandant. J.
C. Armstrong, C.B ., C.M.G ., th~ followmg
were amon gst t ho~e present : Brigadier A. 1. Musson.
Colonels H . Duesbury, H . C. Ellis, H. GengeAndrews, E. A. Lang, L . J . Ligh tfoot, R W . Mac fie , W. S. Mackenzie, H. G. Ri ley, C. C. Todd ,
E. E. E. Todd, and R. A. B . YOl~n g .
Lt. -Colonels J. G. Anderson, R. W. l\nderson,
C. J . Barl'adell, G. H . Charlton, N. Forde, H .
Go lding , E. W. Grant, C. Holrn es, J. G . MacCri lldJ e, G. W. 'elson , P. L. Oldham . T. L .. Rogers,
J . l1wel'S, A . \1,,1. M. C. Skinner, and F. Vldal.
l\bjors F. T. B:1ines, C. T. B ~ dnall, E. C. Eth el'ington , T. H. Grant, A. Greenwood, W . P almer.
It. H. Sayer, R H. Smyth , R. G . St:1nham, and
H. W. Taylo1'.
. Captains R C. de V . Askin,. A. E. Bm'low, L. 1. F,
B:1rton , G. S. Bates, J. Bellm a n, .J. VII. Brennall ,
A. G. W. Broadh urst, R .D . Buck, B. L. Burgess.
J. H. Clow es, H . H. Cotli er , R. S. Ellicott, A. N
Evel's, A. J. Hopkins, R L. L. Ingpen. E. R. K eUy.
H.' H. l\Jalpass, W. Marshall , E. L. Munn, B. Sant,
F .. Spil bury, and J. G. W ood, .
.
L ieutenants J. Feehally, and W. n. Thl es.

APPOINTMENTS .

Li eut enant" olonr l E. J::tm es, D. S.O. , L C .. Th e

East L ancashire R egim ent, has been appointed
Olft 'er-in-c harg e of Infantry Re ord :Ll1d Pay Oflice.
York, with effect from Nov ember 8, 1934.
LieutenanL- Colonel S. R. l\lcClintock, D,R.O ., 11,.,
Gordon Highland ers . has been appoi.nted Officer-in
ch arge of InFa ntl'y Record a nd P ay Office, LeIth,
with effect from December 16, 193'4.
. Li uten:1nt-Colon el McClintock c-ommand the old
92nd at l\l der hot, whi ch is leav in for Gibra lt:1r on
October 16. At L eith he s ucceeCls olollel A. R.
MacAllan, whose t enure expires in December. Be
joined th e Gordons during th e BoeT War, was
adjutant of th e 4th B a ttalion at Abercleep and 0.0.
it in Fran ce, ns well as of th e 7th Batt:t1lon s 'of The
'A . and S.H. and Th e B lack W atch and 3rd Battalion.
Th e Sco tti sh Ri fi es. H e wns wounded twi ce and
award ed th e D.S.O . and clnsp .
Colonel Alexand er M. vVilson, D.S.O. , took over
th e duti es o[ Officer -in-charge, R ecord and Pay Office,
Dep tfol'cl, i~ succession t,o Colonel C. W. Hortol1,
D,S.O. , on August 25.
Colonel Wi lso n has been 011. h alf-p,ny sin ce September. when he vac 'l.t ed the appointment of A. slstant
Direc tor of Suppli es and T ranspo rt at Ul e headqu art ers of the W estern Command, Chest er. Be
was promol,ed co lonel in 1929.
Colone l H alTY F. B . S. Moore, O.B.E. ,. was
ap pointe 1 Officer-in- charge of th e Royal .Eng!l1eers
Re ('I'd and Pay Office, with eff ect from Au g ll s~ 3'1.
Colon al Mool:e has hee n a sapper sin ce 1902, and
ha s held appointments as a Sllecial . B es rve and
Territorial Force ::tdj ui;an t . After ser VJce !l1 Oal hpoh
he was staff office r to th e Engineer-in-Chi ef of the
Egyptian E xpEditiona ry lTorce, and l at~ I' _!lad emp,loyrn ent und er th e Col0111 al Offi ce 111 bl l ~stl11 e .
Promoted heutenant- colonel III 1928. be became a
colonel a t the end of 1932.
POSTINGS.

Capt. H . H. Morrell. Woolwi ch to York , 16/7/34.

Capt. (Bt. Major) E. T. C. Smith , York (R.) to
Wool wich. 16/ 7/ 34.
Capt,. J. A. Bedford, Southern Cmd. to N.LD.,
16/ 7/ 34.
Cap t. H. P . P ark , N .I. D . to Woolwi h, 16/: / 34.
Capt. L . G. Daisb, Wool wich to Southc1'1I C01l1(1. ,
16/7 / 34.
Lt.-Col. F. P. Vicl:11, O.B.E. , W este rn Cm u. to
N.I.D. , 28/8 / 34.
" t
Major E. ,N. Booth , M .C., N.I.D. to \ov es el'll
Omd., '2B /8/34.
/9/34
M:1jor F. C. Robins , E gypt to London , 1 , .'
Major F. A. Woods , Soulhel'1l Cmd. to Eg)r t.
6/9/ 34.
.I
a pt. H . G. EnsolL, Li chfi eld (.0 WOolWIC1,
17/9/34.
ENGAGEMENT.

IT. R. HTCHARD ON ,1Nl;> 'MI s~ L E ~.I\in

Th cngaO'emcnt is ll l11lOl1TI Cecl betwcclI ( .Ipt. r
Fmnk Ryd~ ' Richnrclson. RA,P, '. , thll;l1 son
th httc bl'. J. C. Ryd cl' Ri ehnrcl son . of n ~mll~II :(i
haITI , Suffol k :111 d of Mrs. Ryc1 cl' )'l lchRrd 50n. 'Sir
J oa,n MHry L e Bas. on lv dl1ti~hte r of the I~le ~r
Hedley Le Bas and 01 Lady L e Bus, The an,
K elsale, uffolk.
CA (>T,II N

'I

NOTIC E.

The Uon orary Sec J'{tary Old Comrades Associatioll

wi shes to bring to th e IIO ~ l ce of all members that
a fresh stock of lape l I adg es has been obtfLined and
are now o'n sale at 1/ - each PORt "free.

30 2

ROVAL

ARMV PAV

CORPS

JUURNAL

Contract Bridge
By Lt.-Col. J. G ROSE (late R .A.) .
The chief item of Contract Bridge news
this quarter is the large increase in the
number of tournaments and match es that
are taking p lace all over the \yorld.
Several Clu bs exist chiefly for the purpose
of organising competitions.
In th e S ummer number of the journal

read~rs were advised to form fours, and b;

plaYlDg together once or tv\'ice a week to
work th emsel ~es up ' into a team which
would soon be able to compete wi th other
teams compos~d, perhaps, of individually
stronger players. They \\'ill find tha t every
member of a team that practi ces regularly
togeth er and plays matches INhenever it ca n
will improve surp risin g ly as aq individual
player, wh ile th~ team spirit that is developed makes them a formidable combination
and enh ances the fascination of the game.
Anyone wh o is keen ~no ugh to have carefully read through these articles and tried
the problems is capable of captaining such
a team . He \IilI have to buy a good book,
of course, for reference, but the framework
of th e approach-forcing system has been
depicted here an d some of the niceties of
th~ calling h a\r~ been sketched. Practice
and discussion \Iill do the rest so far as that
part of the game is concerned.
. It must be admi tted th at, hitherto, very
lIttle has beeg prin ted in the J ourn al about
the play of th~ hand. It was natural to
deal with the bidding thoroughly first. But
Shakespeare was right \yh en he said "The
play' s the thing."
The most brilliant
caller will com e to grief if he mess~s up
th e play of th e cards, whi l~ good cardplay is responsible both for escapin g and
for markin g up many a fat pena lty. Apart
from S lam bon uses, wHich sh ould never be
attempted unless souqd p lay ca n be counted
on, mor~ than a thousand points may be
turned over from on e side to the other by
a sing le p iece of pretty ,,"ork in p laying
out the cards.
The fanciful n otion that all g rea t p layers
are possess~c1 of a sL"{th sense, called card
sense , is ba ld erda sh . Sk ill comes more

easily to some than; to others, but it is a

bran ch of o;rdil1ary' intelligence, po li shed
up and apphed to th~ particu lar problems
III h~nd by much practice and thought .
PractIce alone gets one nowhere as is
proved by the g reat number oC persons
who play alm ost inc~ssantl y and very
badly. And much of the thinking has to
be done at. other tim es, for frequent ' long
pauses dU~lllg th~ play are boring to the
oth ers besld~s bemg th e mark of mediocrity. Not th a t there is any objection ' to a
player stopping to work out a partlcular
problem or to tqink when there is some~hin g to th.ink abo ut . A ll 'go~d p la~Ters do
It . But tIllS on ly happens occasiona ll v and
at other times th ey p lay without "' ~sting
a moment .
. Th~ play of the hand begins from the
ttm~ when th~ cards are picked up, for
dUrIng the ca lhn g, the Intelligence Department should be hard at " 'ork collecti I1 O' informatioll which may' be of value in the
p lay as \V~ll as in the bidding. A certain
teach er of Contract always tells hi~ pupil s
to look at the other hands first. "Vou will
h ave plenty of time," he says, "to look
at your own cards after-wards ." This is
humorous, but it is profound wisdom too,
for du!in?, th.e preliminary stages, ally and
every mdlcatlOl1 of the con tents of the other
three h~nds shoul d be studied, a th orough
reconnaIssance made and its results n ot forgotten when Dummy goes dml'll.
If as Z you are playing a game contract,
when A has led and V's hand goes down on
th e table, do not immediately pull ou t a
card from Dummy. That is the time to
plan out the play of the hand. A few
seconds spent in considera tion then ,,ill be
more than made up by your bellO' able to
p lay with out hesitation later. If ~ou play
the first card hastily, you mav make an
irretrievable sli p and rack YOU~ brai ns ill
va in for a remedy afterwards. The \I'[iter
gave him self (and his pa rtn er) a sharp
lesson in this the oth er day. As Z, he was
playing a contract of "Three No-Trumps",
vu lnerable.

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ARl\fY

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+ A.K.x.x.
+ A.K.Q .x .x
O A.J.IO

+ 872
\/ K.6
O Q.J .l o 54
+ K3 2

If \/7 \I'ere the fourth best of A's longest

suit a common lead against a No-Trump
decl'aration, A must have the Que~n himself, of course. So Z exp~cted to win, the
trick " 'ith the Jack . But as it happened,
the Sev~n " 'as A's highest Heart, and B
played the Queen . Z saw that if he play ed
his Kin g on the Qu~en, he mig ht never
get in to make the Diamonds. He therefore play~d the Six and hoped for the b~st .
B led a Club up to Dummy's weakness and
A , taking the trick with the Queen. led
anotber Heart. and away went Z's King.
Z no\\' led a Diamond and put on Dummy's
King, but B did not put on th~ Ace till the
second round; and as A hdd the Ace ,of
Clubs, not another Diamond was made. and
Z, \yith all that strength, was two down
on hi s contract!

The moment he had touched tile Jack of

Hearts to pla y it on the first trick, Z saw
that by playing the Ace instead, and then
leac1in O' the King of Diamonds and followin g it ~ if the Ace were not put 0~1, witp, a
small one, he could make certal11 of the
game and rubber, no matter how the adverse cards lay. But it was too late then.
When planning the play of the hand, if
your Contract is a big one, four of a major
suit or five of a minor, count your unavoidable losers first , and thell concentrate
011 making- the contract if by any conceivable distribution of th~ opposing hands it is
possible .
'

JOURNAL
+ x.x .x
\/ Q.IO .X.X.x
O x .x
+ J.IO .X

+ A.K.IO-4
\/ A.J.I O4
O K.6
+ J.lo5

A led the Seven of Hearts and no sooner

had Y rut down' his cards, than the writer
pulled out the Jack.

CORPS

\/ X
Z started \I'ith a demand bid of "T\I'o
Clubs", and the final Contract \I'as "Five".
A-I3 did not bid.
A led a sm all Dia11lond, B played th e
King and Z took the trick with his Ace .
He then took out the trumps. and established the thirteenth Spade with the loss of
the Queen . But he was set one trick, for
he had to lose, besides the Queen of Spades,
th e Queen of Diamonds and on e H eart.
Ho\\' should he have played the hand ?
He could count two certain losers, the
Que ~ n of Diamonds and one H eart . What
about his two small Spades? They must
be trumped somehow . He c~u\ l.ead ba.ck
a Diamond and when he gets 111 agam,
throw a Spade from Dummy on his th~f(l
Diamond. H e can then trump the thIrd
and fourth Spades before taking out the
trumps.
So far so good. But he will have to !Set
the lead back into his o\,yn hanel atter
trumping the third Spade before h~ can
trump the fourth. This he can do by leac!ing Dummy's small trump to one of hIS
O"VD top honours . T he 01 ponent who held
the Queen of Diamonds, however! would
be pretty certain to tU11lble to h,ls game
when he saw him take out Dummy's last
Diamond. He would surely lead a trump
and scupper the wbole scheme. Z s l~ ol1ld
therefore first lead his Heart as less hkely
to g ive a way his tactics.
The hand occurred in a duplicate match,
and at the other table where the other t~m
\\'ere play ing the " Five Club" d e:l a ra t lO~~
the first trick was th~ same; but Z l.ed hI:>
Hea rt to the second and B took it \\'Ith ~he
, . Z put on h'IS K1Ilg.
King and led a Spade
and led the Jack of Diamonds.
A \I'on
with the Queen and quickly led trumps.
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Z won it with the Queen, led th ~ Ace of

Spades, and foll oll'ed it with a small one
\\'hich he trum ped \\'ith Dummy's Ten.
Then he g ot back into his o,,'n hand by
trumpin g Hearts, and the rest was easy .
It is true that Dummy's play to tb~ first
trick is often obvi ous. but the best play ers
cultivate the habit of making a rapid appreciation of the situation before play ing it .
The culti vati on of the right ha bits is no
unimportant branch of the art of card-play .
For instan ce, if you are leadin g off a King
from Ace-Kin g , ",hen openin g the defence
play against a suit declaration (and a very
good opening it is) , watch your partner' s
card. If he \\'ishes you to continue th e suit,
he will play hi g h -low. MallY persons, when
they follo\\' their King with their Ace, and
see their partner play a Four (sa y) , find
they do n ot remember what he play ed to
the Kin g- .
CONTRACT PROBLEM. (I) & (11).
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\) A .4.2
O Q-4 .2
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. A.Q.IO 53
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Z is play in g the declaration of " F our

Spades" , A-B did not bid. Ho 11' should
Z play the hand :
(l)
If A lea ds the Eight of Hearts ?
(IT) If A lea ds Ace and then. a small
Diamond. and Dummy 's Queen " ' InS the
second trick, B having- follo\\'ed suit?

PROBLEM Ill.
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Z is play ing the hand at a declaration of

"Four H earts". Th~ bidding was:
Z
A
Y
B

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A leads the Ace of Clubs . What should

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Since th e last publication of t he " Journ al". t he

Man agemen t Co mmittee ha ve met monthl y \\'i t h th e
excep tIOn of Aug ust. F our a ppli ca t ions for assist .
a nce W1'e dea lt w.ith, G l'ants were made in thl'ee
cases a nd the fourth was r efe l'r ed to th e GenEl'a I
CommitLe~ beill g ou' sid e t he power
of th e
Man agemen t Commi t tee,
Co rl'es pondence on variou s subj ects was dealt
With, and sevel'a l appli cations in respect of variou s
sel'Vlces on behalf of Old Comrades \\' 6re sati s fac.
tOl'ily dea lt with ,
Th e question of In com e Tax on Associa tion Fund s
ha s not yet been settled t o th e sa ti s fa ction of t he
Committee a nd it is intend ed to tak e th e ma ttel' up
ag;) in when circum st a ncES a re more fa vourable,
Th e General Commi tt ee met on t.h e 4th J uly.
19~4,
In th e una voidabl e a bse nce of Mr. Sharp ,
th e mem bers nonll na td S,Q.M'.Sergt. Mundy Chair .
man. Th e ot her mem be rs pretient were Mr . .J.
Thurgood, S,Q.M,Sel'g ts, G. W , Mitchener, F. B,
.Mitchll , C:rpt. A, A , Gawn , CoL H . Du es bul'Y .
Hon, Treas urer, al.d Mr. E. J, W. Browue, Honor.
a ry Secret a r.)'.
Th e Committee of Management l'ep'orted that th ey
had only one Item to bying before th e Committee in
connecti on wi t h th e annual general meeting, viz.,
th at Office R epresenta t,ives should be empOWEred to
make a paymen t of 5 to a Dl ember's widow. The
ma tter had been Id t to t he Man agement Comnlit.
tee and t.he wh ole quesfjon _ deferred to the next
annu al meetin g.
Th e Man agement Comm ittee
stat ed th eir vi ews. and tli e mat te r was di scussed
at length , and it is hoped to h iIYe a ati sfacto ry
solut ion ,,, hen th e ma tter com es up at th e a nnu al
meeting.
The st.a t ement of account s and report of th e
Dinner Committee were presented , a pproved, and
a dopted.
Letters received fr om th e Presid ent and various
members express in g th eir pleasure at th e dinn er
arra ngm ents were read , a nd th e Committee ex
I~ ['esse d th eir th a nks t o th e President and others
con cern ed.
Th e Honorary Secretary repOlted th at he had
compli ed with t.he proposal to send a letter of
appreci a tion to Sergt . Pond a nd read th e reply he
had r eceived.
.
Ot.hEl ma tters r eferred from th e Management
Committee inclnded an a pplication for assista nce,
whi ch th e Committee decid ed, with regr et, co uld
no t be en t ed ain ed.
Th e Committee report with regret th e deaths of
two mem bers, No , 407 MI', A. Fliday a t H ouns,
low. a nd No . 930 Major R. W. P . L odw:ck at
Camberl ey.
Va rioll S oth er matters having been dea lt wit h
the meeting th en -closed.
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-ights.
A nyone \\'ho has not had the luck or illluck, to have been sta tiol1~d h~re can
hardl y im ag in e Shanghai after midnight.
T hose II'ho know Paris or Vienna 'may
forlll a fair idea.
A few travellers in
forei gn parts have told me that this p lace
surpasses eith er for attraction, glamo u~
and vice. N um erous Cabarets are op~n day
and night, a t II'hich you can dance off your
surplus energy or the effects of too mfll1Y
glasses, to the tune of a few dances a
dollar. Some of these places ar~ crude and
vulgar, others pretty well conducted where
you can enjoy yourself, p rovid ing YQ U are
II'illing to pay for amusement, and many
are magnificent, offerin g the finest food!>
and the best liqu ors. Cabaret life IS expensive, and the individual has to decide
whether the tune is worth the price. One
thin g keeps them fu ll-drink can be obta inecJ a t any ti me of the day or night.
I IIill not try to describe the life of the
cabaret o'irl s, that "ten cents a dance"
feeling is ver~' much a live. It is a hard
life and a hort one and they are out to
extract a ll they can II'hile the sun shines.or th e lights g lare.
Then there is the seamy sid e. Shanghai
has been sty led the "Cesspool of the
W orld", and it well deserves its name.
Vice and immorality in its vi lest forms are
th ~ Shanghai yo u knew--Shanghai

Shanghai
By Sgt. P. M. LEE.
streets of Shanghai is an interestin g OCC llpation for the obs!;rvant.
Frolll the milita ry point of view II'e a re
pretty well off here . Th~ Area Pay Office.
our accommodation, and the Mess are all
in the one compound. In the absence of
fam ilies (there are v~ r y ie\\' married
quarters here), mess life is at its best. All
the English brands of liquor and ciga rettes
are stocked, and as they are n ot taxed they
are able to be sold at 101\' prices, for
instance, beer is sold at 4td. a pint, a
double 'w hisky costs 6d. al11d a tin of 50
cigarettes ca n be obtained for Io~d. This
is purely a temporary station, we aI:e here
for a year and away. Meeting old pals
and bidding ad ieu to others afford us
numerous oportunities for "celebrations".
(Smile, you ex-Shallghailalldersl. As Ire
are all "single" here even the ha rdened
hearth lover buds out as a mess man. There
a re also two infantry and a f~ w departmental messes. Coupled " 'ith these are
the Municipa l Police mess and th e Fire
Brigade mess, man y members of \I'hich are
ex-Army men, and in all of them opportunity abounds for improving the shining
hOlly. T here are ample opportunities for
tenlli5 and cricket in the summer, and football, h ockey, etc., in the winter. A swimming bath ill the camp nearly compensates
for the absence of the sea and is a blessing
in the summ er.
Pi ct ure houses, shewing th e best British
and American films are numerous, and the
majority a re comfortable, being air-c?oled
in the summer and heated in th ~ \\l11ter.
The local f)olice are the censors and many
Clllestionable reels get th e ben~fit of the
doubt.
Pony racin g nearly every lVeek ~n the:
summer and the "'dogs" and Ha! AlaI
(Pelota Basque) in the \I'inteI: give ~he
gam b ier every opportlmity of increasIDg
the div idends of the Tote. There are certainl v abundant attractions and time does
n ot hang heavil y in Shanghai.
No m ~ tt er how sh ort your stay in Shang-hai t h ere is one memory you will take
away, and in after years, when time ?ims
th e recollection, it will remain , symbolic of

Shanghai is a revelation to a newcomer.

It has been styled many things, the "Paris

of the East" or the "Incredible City", but
n one seem suitable to describe this extraordinary place. To say that Shanghai is
incredible is p utting it mildly. At first the
visitor is not inclined to believe his olvn
senses but eventuall); the truth of this
hybrid city breaks down all reserves and
the start lin g facts are forced on our unaccustomed European minds. One has to
visit Shanghai to realise th a t th ere are still
some things one does n ot wish to beli eve .
Those who have travelled East of Suez a re,
no doubt, entit led to believe th~y possess a
fair idea of what Shanghai is like, but even
the hardened traveller is not altogether prepared for what is in store for him when he
sails up the Wangpoo. From Gibraltar to
Hong Kong the many changes of scenes
are, in a manner, a ntici pated, but in the
other goo miles from Hon g Kong many a
surprise is held in every mile .
There are man y strange sights to be seen
in Sh ang-hai. The natives dress in anything
from a European lounge suit to a bare rag.
The Coolies, t h e most subjected type in
the world, are an object of p ity, and in
many cases, disg ust . Here. where all the
races of the East and West intermix, some
fantastical forms of apparel are inevitable.
The Coss~ck hat, the Basque beret, the
Yankee check and our own sober trilby
and bowler are equally popular.
The
native sku ll cap is usually worn hy the
Chinese. The eternal "dress question" is
as strong here amongst the daug hters of
Eve as in any E uropean city. Th e I~igher
class Chin ese lady dresses in the finest of
silk and m ~ n y beau tiful creations are seen.
The "split kirt", divided at the sides from
ankl e to hip is very much in evidence,
and if th e id~a is to ex oose delicate underwear and dainty limbs, the object meets
w ith a fair amount of success. It \\'c:, ld
never do for a Chinese lady to be in a hurry
getting on a bus.
The 'ikh noli ce in native dress and the
Annamite police of the French Concession
with their con~ h ats add to the conglomeration of colour and types. Strolling in the
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rampant here.
Hou ses of ill repute are as numerous as
pt~bli~ bou es at home. These de ns of
lllIqUIty are .often cloaked as a r:espectable
cab~ ret , . II'hIle others are qu ite open and
undIsgUlseci, an d it is n ot un usual to be
accosted on the streets by touts of these
h o u ~es. These concerns are ' mostly situated
outSIde th e Internationa l Settlement where
the population is under Ch inese control ancl
very lax. The oriental races seem to be
entirely devoid of a ense of moraiity, The
fi&,ures for infanticide in the country distrIcts of Ch In a are appalling. In the les~
enlightened areas the birth of a son is a
ca use for rejoicing, but an unfortun ate
daughter is often throlyn into the neares t
river, or reared for about t welve years and
sold to these houses by her own parents.
It has n ot been the intention to shock
but to g ive a true account of this wonderful
yet vi le city. Anyone of an impressionable
character can never forget his sojourn in
Shanghai, and if he is a student of human
nature, \Iill in after years when all is left
behind, murn1l1r-"China~the pity of it" .
H ow \\'ell Kipling knell' his world :_
"Take me somewh ere East of Suez
Where the best is like the worst
\ i\.There th er~ 'aint no ten Commandments
And a man can raise a thirst".

Promotions and Appointments

To be Warrant Offic!)r Class I and ~ppointed S.S . M.

7657357 S.Q.l\I.S. F. E. Genr, 16 / 12/ 33.
7657273
.Q.l\I.S. W. Evel'ett. 3/ 1/ 34.
To be Warrant Officer Class 11 and appOinted
"S.Q. M.S.
7737,367 S/ Sgt. A. Df. whirst, 31/ 7/ 34.
7733148 S/ Sgt. H. J. Hill ::tl'y. 27 / 7/ 34.
To be Sta1f sergeant.
6077138
gt. C. H. W eston , 24 / 5/ 34.
787119l Sgt. R W arrnington, 3/ 6/ 34.
1025454 Sgt. R. J . McCu llogh , 22 / 6/ 34 .
6390960 Sgt. W. Ede, 5/ 7/ 34 .
7658050 Sgt. F. Vin ce nt. 6/ 7/ 34.
To be Sergeant.
1045012 L / gt. P. W. Sutton. 29 / 6/ 34.
5722618 L / Sgt. H . W . Reynolds, '2IJ /7/34.
7583324 LI Sgt. E. F . Eown , 1/ 7/ 34.
2212092 L 7Sgt. F. W. Ha rt'is , 12/ 7/ 34.
To be Lance Sergeant.
18662G9 Cp!. B. Hart. YJ /6/ 34 .
2653909 Cp!. G. W. Bellars, 1/ 7/ 34.
5616343 Op!. P. W. Oammidge. 1/ 7/ 34.
2653977 Cp!. T . Col man, 1/7/ 34.
7584887 CpJ. S. O. Kirke. 1/7/ 34 .
3185881 CpJ. N. McRay. 1 / 7/34.
23'2IJ254 Op J. W. T. Carden, 21 / 7/ 34.
550319 OpJ. E. S. Orchard. 21 /1'/34.

6283714 OpJ. T. H. Ald el'son, 21 / 7/ 34.

7583508 GpJ. N. Caterham , 28 / 7/ 34.
2319156 O l~ !. R. F airclough , 12/ 8 / 34.
To be Corporal.
550872 Pte. J. F. Reed, 2/ 6 /34.
2320877 Pte. G. F. Porter, 23/ 8/ 34.
Continued in the Serv:ce beyond 21 years.
7657276 S.S.M. W. F . Oram. until 23 / 10/ 36.
7657905 S/Sgt. H. Dow, until 22 / 4 /36.
765707,5 S.SJ\lL H. Grant. until 26 / 9/ 35.
7657058 S.R.NI. J . J. Dalton. unt~ 1 29/ 9 /35.
7657357 S.S.M. F. E . Gear, uutil 15/ 12/ 38.
7657273 S.S.M. W . Everett, until 2/1/ 39.
7657303 R.Q .M. S. H . . Sanderson. until 4/ 2/ 36.
1409914 Sgt. L. J . R. Oaveille, until 31 / 1/ 39.
Re-engagements to complete 21 years.
4531046 Sgt E. J . AU an, 23 / 5/ 34.
l060~56 Sgt. A. E. Broadsmit.h. 25 /6/ 34.
5768721 Sgt. G . \. Johnson. 27/ 7/ 34.
7258048 Sgt. :r. J . A. Eynon. 8/ 8/ 34.
Extension of Servir.e to complete 12 years.
5434362 L / Sgt,. P. M. Lee. 2/3/ 34,
1867686 CpJ. H. J. Cox, 12/ 7/ 34.
DiSCharges.
7657133 S.Q.M.S. F. A. Saunders. 21 / 6/ 34.
7657041 S.S.M . P. P erkins , 4/ 7/ 34.
7657732 Sgt. H . Wi lson, 7/ 8/ 34.
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The third pOSItIOn by the famous com poser of "Fairy Chess"-Mr. T . R. Dawson, is solved by moving th e ,,hite rook
to King's fourth, King's third , Queen's
eighth or Queen' s seventh, according to
the direction the Board is turned.

TH E CU R IOUS I N CH ESS .

F inal Articl e.
So ,,ide is this subject, that only the
merest fringe of it can be dealt with in
three short articles. We have already in
our two preceding numbers given various
curious problems which serve as illustrations of the theme, and we no\\" append
three further instances of actual problems
which have points of both interest and
curiosity.
The first one has a curious layout of the
black pawns, and the forced moves of each
one after the key, v.. hich is a move of the
knight, gives white a separate loop-hole to

No. 2.
By S. R. Barrett.
Black (3 pieces)

No. I.
By Le De Szasz.
Black (7 pieces)
White (5 r ieces)
White to play and mate in
commenci ng Queen-B 3, etc.

12

moves--

No. 3.
By T. R. Dawson.
Black (g pieces)

White (6 pieces)
White to play and mate in two moves .
mate. The great difficulty in the construction of these task problems lies iD, the
prevention of "cooks", or other keys . In
this on~ t he composer has very cleverly
avoided them. The second one owes its
curious t u rn to the fact of the White Q ueen
originally moving to I3ishop's third and
forcing the Black King to his Knight's
eighth. The Queen then clwcks at Quee.l1' S
third and so on, gradually see-sawing lip
the board to Rook's eighth when he mates
on his K. Rook's square. The presence of
the white pawns is to prevent the mates
taking place earlier, the white King also
serving in a similar capacity.

by playing to Bishop's 3rd, constitut1l1g a self bl ock .

If the black bishop moves, White Queen
takes the pa\vn, etc., etc.
Th~ problem is an illustration of a pure
"waiter", the mates all being set out
awaiting Black's moves . The key retains
the block entirely. Solved by C. Turnbull ;
"R.V."; "Well-wisher"; "W.S ."; and
two solvers with no nom-de-plume.
Dr. Alekhin easily won his match
against Herr Bogoljuboff by a large margin.
There is talk of another match with Capablanca, but this is doubtful.
It seems more likely that on~ of the
younger school of players, such as Flohr
-or Kashdan or Lilientha l the young
French player, may p lay him.
These
matches involve a considerable strain and
at present the Champio~ can, to a 'grea t
extent, make h is own conditions.
A curious point in the famous match
with Capablanca played at Buenos Aires
,vas that every game but one was a Queen's
Gambit declined .
When Dr. Alekhine
ventured into a French Defence, he was
rapid ly beaten .
The recent Congress held at Chest~r was
a great success and the British Championship was won by Sir Georg~ Thomas again
-a quadruple International. The veteran
p layer, R. P. Mitchell, tied with Fairhurst,
the Scottish Champion, for the second
place, whilst Rupert Cross, the blind
player, was only half a point away.
Arrangements for the International Team
Championships at Warsaw, are now well
nncler way, for next year.
Amongst the games appended is the
shortest one at the recent Chester Congress.
Ga me No. 24.

WhiteJ3 pieces)
White to play and mate in t,,o moves,
from any of the four sides of the board! !
Problem No. IQ. (See page 270 .)
Key-Queen to K .B . 3rd .
If Knight takes Queen, White mates by
K night to Queen's third.
If black ~night to Bishop's 7th, Queen
308

White.
P. T . St,evenson.
1 P-K4
2 Kt---KB3
3 P-Q4
4 B-QB4
5 P-QB3
6 Q-Q5
7 QxPch
8 B-K6 mate.

Black.
N . Maclean.
1 P-K4
2 Kt---QB3
?I PxP
4 B- K2?
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Th e fo ll owing game was played in the Colchester
Chess CluL 's summe r toUrt16Y.
Notes by the
winn er.
White.
Bla ck.
E. H. FIeat'.
T. Rohin so n.
1 P-Q4
1 Kt-- -KB3
;2 Kt~KB3
2 P-K3
3 P-B4
3 8-K t5 h
4 B-Q2
4 BxBcb
5 QxB
5 P-Q4
6 P-K3
6 Kt- I\5
In view of the exchange. of his KB , the adoption
here of a! stonewall fOl1natlOn by Bla ck is probably
inferior, as his Black squares are left weak.
7 Q-B2
7 K t---Q2
8 B-Q3
8 P-KBt;
9 Kt---B3
9 P-B3
10 0-0
10 0-0
11 QR-B1
11 Q-K1!
12 P-QIVI
12 P-QR4
13 Kt---K2
13 P-K4
Black is concf.I' ned for the freedom of his QB a
'
more patient line was safer.
14 K txKP
14 P xKP
15 KtxK.t
15 QxKt
16 PXP
16 PxP
17 Kt---B4
17 K-Rl
To allow QxKt if White plays KtxBP.
18 KR-Q1
18 P-Q5
19 BxKt
19 PxP !
20 PxP
20 QxB
B;ere PxB . tlic~gh ~olating the pawn, would have
achieved the all Important fre edom of the Bishop.
21 Q-Kt3
hi s confines t~e B and gives White some superionty, as R-Q4 IS threatened. coupled with a possibility of a Kt sacrifice at Kt6.
~l R-R3 !
22 R-B7
22 R-Q:a3
This loses qui ckl,. B.lack completely overlooked
the effect of Whlte s next move. QR-KB3 is best
after which , although Whit/' has th e adYal1tage ~
quick line for White is not apparent.
'
23 Q-B7!
Tt is impossiLle to parry every mate!
23 QxKPch
24 K-R1
24 R-KKtJ
25 QxRch
Resigns.
A smart finish!

:r

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Capt. R.V.-Very fine game which r hope to p'ublish-many tbanks .

.
P.F.-Yes they play every evening, all the year
round, at a large. cafe in the main square near the
station at Amsterdam.
A.C.-The key is Qu een to Queen' s fourth .
Nemo.-Send along the game and I will analyse it.

Ga me No. 25.
. P layed and clev~rly won by S .S.M . F lear
-at Colchester. against one of the best
l)layers in Essex.

Will all corr~spondents address letters to

Sergt. V . Rush, Command _Pay Office ,
,Hong Kong, China.
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The Royal Army Pay Corps

In

Ireland
On the break-u p of the Army Accounts
Department in 1910 the Loca l Audit Office
became once more an office apart from the
Army Pay Offices and the District Accountant's Office became the: Command Pay
Office of the Irish Command, under Colonel
and Chief Paymaster Smerdon.
On the 21St April, 1913, on the introduction of the Fix~d Centre Scheme, the Regi.
mental Pay Office, Dublin Iyas entirely
broken up and the personnel we re 120sted
elsewhere, the Accounts of the regiments
going to Belfast, which at this time was the
R ecord Office for the Irish Regiments
hitherto in payment of the Regimental
Office in Dublin .
On the 15th October, 1913, the office of
the O .C. No. I I District and the Infantry
Record Office, Belfast were transferred to
Dublin once more and on the 21St October
the Regimental Pay Office, Belfast was
moved to Dublin and beca me the Regimental P ay Office, Dublin .
Owing to the expansion of work during
the Great War the Regimenta l Pay Office
was moved from Ship Stree:t Barracks to
L inen Ha ll Barracks wher~ more suitable
accommodation \yas avai lable.
In the Rebellion of 1916 L inen Hall
Barracks was burnt down , together with
most of the records of the Pay Office, and
the office was moved to Beggars Bush Bar
racks, thence to premises in Rutland
Square.
The number of queries received relating
t o the documents which had been destroyed
was so great that an Office Form was intro
duced which informed the inqu irer that "It
was regretted that information cou ld not
be furnished as the relevant doc uments had
been destroyed by fire."
This form proved a great boon to unsc r upulol1s probationers and oth~rs, who
were still making use of it as late as 19~0.
In October, 1918, further accommodatl~n
was taken over in the Plaza Hotel, and In
February, 19 20 , the Minerva Hote l in Rut
land Square was occupied .
Thus at this time the Command Pay
Office \~as situated i~ Lo~ver Castle yard
and t he Regimental P ay Office, Dubli n \\'as

Immediately prior to the 1St May, 1905,

Station Pay Offices dealing with Regimental services were situated at Armagh,
Omagh, Galway, Naas, Clonmel and
Tralee.
Station and District offices were combined at Belfast, Curragh, Cor.k and Dublin, the last under the direct control of the
Chief Paymaster in Dublin.
Cash duties
were performed in all th~se offices .
There was also the office of the Local
Auditor, detached from the: War Office in
1902, at 21, Parliament Street, Dublin.
On the 1St May, 1905, on th~ formation
of the Army Accounts Department, all the
Station Pay Offices were abolished and their
duties, other than those in connection with
Cash payments, were tak~n over by Regimental Pay Offices in Belfast, Dublin and
Cork.
.
All Cash duties were amalgamate:d and
taken over by a "Command Cashier", the
first holder of this appointment being
Major G. R. B. Patten, A. P. D. (now
Lieut. Colonel, retired).
The Chief P aymaster, Colonel Drage,
became Chief Accountant of the Irish Com mand and his Sergeant Major (Ma rtin)
joined the Audit Branch as 2nd Class Assistant Accountant. The Audit Office moved
from Parliament Street into offices vacated
by the Station Pay Office in Lower Castle
Yard.
All the District Services were amalgamated into one office and Capt. (later
Colouel and c.P .) F. Woodall with Staff
Sergeant (now Major and Assistant Paymaster) G. H. White opened a District
Office in Parliament Street, Dublin on the
1St May, 1905.
S.S.M. Balls joined this new offic~ a few
weeks later and the office moved into new
quarters in Sh ip St reet Barracks, adjoining
the Chief Accountant' s Office some months
afterwards, Major B . E. W inter being appointed Accountant in charge of District
Services.
T he new Regimen tal Pay Office in Dublin was opened in the old Officers' Quarters
in Ship Street Barrack5 und~r L ieut .Colonel T. O' H ara (later Colonel and C .P. ).
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accommodated in several buildings in and

a round Rutland Square.
The only pther office in Irela nd at the
pr~sent time was situated in Cork.
In 1920 the political situation in Ireland
~ave ri se t-<;> much anxiety in England, and
It was deCided by the Home Government
to draft a large number of extra troops and
police into Ireland with the object of restoring law and order in the country .
In order to understand \yby these adDitional troops and police were oraered to
Ireland, a brief summary of the ~vents
leading up to the present situation is necessary .
The Sinn Fein movement came into existence in 1905 with a mode rate policy.
From 1905 to I913 the policy changed and
the movement g radually became linked up
with the extremists, revolutionaries and
disloyal societies.
At about the end of 1913 the Home
Ru le question caused political fee ling
throughout Ireland to become violent ly em b ittered, and as a direct consequence, the
I rish ationa l Volunteers \rere formed 111
opposition to the Ulster Volunteers.
On the outbreak of the Great War in
I914 both poli tica l parties sank t h eir diffe rences and many enlisted into the British
Forces.
The extremists of the Sinn Fein movement, however, took up the attItude that
England's enemies were Ireland's friends,
and collected together all the disaffected
a n d lawless members of the Irish National
Volunteers, and formed them into a rebel
force, which they r~named the Irish Volunteers.
Then came the Rebellio n in Easter vVeek,
1916, wh en the I rish Volunteers made a
grea t attempt to procla im Ireland a Republic. There Iyas severe fighting and the
rebellion, wh ich \I'as confined principally to
Dublin, was crushed within a \\'eek, the
outbreak being almost universally condemned by the trading classes in the City.
The rebe ll ion had failed, but the ne\\'iy
appointed leaders resolved to carry on
\rhere their predecessors had left o ff, in
their attempt to make Ireland a Republic .
They collected considerable funds, chiefly
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"Dai l Eireann" Loan, which enabled the

yO!l1l:tee~'s to increase their activities by

1I1tmlldatlOn and propaganda.

The Ge~.eraJ E!ection at the end 01 19 18
gave the Sl11~l Femel:s a large majority and
~h ey used thIS to further their object of an
ll1dependent republic.
In Ja nuary, 19I9, they set up their own
ParlIament (Dail Eireann) of " 'hich Mr. De
Valera, on his escape from Lincoln Prison,
was elected as President. They filled the
v~st majority of seats on the County Coun cIls and other local Government bodies
with th eir own representatives, and thus
put an end to lega l local government.
They established their 011'11 Courts and
intimidated I eop le into using them in preference to th~ legally constituted British
Courts.
Up to thi. time each County Council
receIVed an annual grant from the English
Local Government Board, but \I'hen the
extremists dec;:jded that all relations between the Irish County Councils and the
Boanl should be severed the ' latter immediately stopped the payment of any
further grants.
The Sinn Fein leaders realised that the
only way they. coul d achieve their object
of a rep ublic \\'as by active measures. They
therefore, began their campaign of gueril1~
warfare.
At this tim~ there "'ere comparatively
few trool s in Ireland and they toqk no part
in the political situation ther~.
Thus it \I'ill be seen that, by the beginning of 1920, it was impossible for the very
sma ll and widely scattered polir~ garrisons
throughout Ireland to hold their 0\\"11 any
longe r against a party of extremists \yho
\yould stop at nothing.
Their 'harracks' \I'ere, in most cases,
buildings situated bet\l'een shops or other
hOl~ses in the main street of a to\I'n and
were therefore incapable of proper defence.
F or many months the R.I.C. had been
the victims of an insidiolls campaigll of
boycott. Not only Iyere their li ves at stake
but the li ves of their fam ilies liying in some
remote part of the country were also threatened in some cases. The follo\ying letter
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and this meant an extra strain on th e

already inadequate supply of military transport.
This influx of troops into Ireland naturally meant that the \york of th~ Command
Pay Office in Dublin was greatly increased,
and so in December, 192 0, the office was
moved to a more spacious building in
Jury 's Hotel in Coll~ge Green, a building
which at that time, was absolutely unprotected : The vacated office in L ower Castle
As a Qunisl;J.ment for talking to members
Yard \\'as taken over by the Roya l Irish
of the po!1ce and military forces the rebels
Constabulary who \\'ere faced with the diffikidnapped girls and cut off th~ir hair.
culty of finding extra accommodation fOIthe reinforcements sent over from England _
It was decided to draft more troops and
Recruiting for the R .I.C. was almost at
police into Ireland and in a very short ti~e
a standstill in Ireland and in order to keep
nits were stationed all over the mor~ dIsthe force up to strength ex-soldiers were
affected parts of the Country.
enrolled in England. There was no lack
Their principal duty, of course, was to
of recruits here as the high ra te of pay
assist the Civil police in maintaining law
offered \V,as a great attraction.
and order. In many districts this was a
The uniform of the R .I.C. was dark
simple task, and the inhabitants, .who h~d
green: but owing to the urgency of 9btainrecentl y been terrorised by the S111n Fem
in O' reinforcements it was not possible to
extremists, wer~ only too glad to
obtain tilis uniform for the recruits. They
welcome the troops, for they realised that
were therefor~ supplied with khaki, with
they would now receive a certaiq amoU1:t
black belts and dark greeq caps. They
of protection for themselves and their
soon be'came known, as a result, as th e
property.
"Black and Tans".
Unfortunately it was not such a simple
The move to Jury's Hotel was carried
matter in other parts of the country, and it
out at 24 ho'u rs' notice, durin~ whic!l time
became necessary to concentrate a large
everything had to be moved, lllclu~llll g all
number of troops in Belfast (wher~ the riotold accounts and other records which had
ing \yas chiefly caused by opposing reaccumulated during th~ past six years or
ligious factions), in Dublin, The Curragh
more.
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and in the extreme South.
In the hurry, the strings and tapes whlCl
By the middle of 1920 the I.R.A. c;ttlifastened the bundles together were broken,
paign of murder was in full swing. This
and by the tIme
" 'as accompanied
the y
reached
by the burning of
Jury's
Hotel
there
barracks
police
was nothing but a
ahd by the send collection of loose
ing of a large
papers which took
number of anon y'a
considerable
mou s letters to
t im e to put
persons opposed
straight.
to
Sinn
Fern
At thi s period,
views, bearing reColonel R. T . M.
presentations
of
Lethbrid g e ,
coffins, skulls and
O. B.E. was the
crossbones.
Command
Pa yThe staffs of the
master, an d an
Railwa y s
in
amusing episode
Southern Ireland
occurred shortly
refu sed to carry
after
his arrival.
military
passenThe P oli ce Bal'l'acks in a countl'Y town .
One evening he
Note th e defences.
gers and stores

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. 'The general public are hereby noticed

(sic) that for the future all intercourse
\rith the R.I.C. in any form whatsoever is prohibited al1d traders who
supply them with goods voluntarily
\yill be regarded as assisti.ng the
enemy and will b~ severely dealt
with.
(Signed) By C rder, C.l\1.A., I.R .A ."
Jul y 20, 1 920.

Con ' t.ructing a milital'Y 'post' in the streets of Duhlil:.

left his room about 6 p.l11. to visit the

Cashier's o ffice. An office cleaner saw him
but did not recognise him and therefore
told the Officer if c of the Allowance Section that she had seen a strange man walk ing about the office. He iml1lediat~ly informed the police who sent a party round
to investigate. Next morning, th~ C.P.,
on bein g told, suddenly realised that he was
the 'Sinn Feiner'!
.
Soon after this Colonel Lethbridge was
transferred to Sa lisbury and Colonel F .
Woodall became the C.P.
Throug hout this period the accounts of
the J or~ h Iri~IJ Regiments were being dealt
vvith by the Regim~ntal Pay Office in Dublin, wher~ . Lieut.-Colonel Household was
the Regimental Paymaster.
After the wholesale murder of Officers
early on the morning of Sunday, 21St
November, 1920, all officers not in barracks
\vere ordered to li ve in a hotel wh ich ",as
hired for the- purpose, just off Great
Georges Street , and to proceed to their
\\'ork in parties, armed \\'ith revolvers .
As this was while the office was in Rut
land Square and quite unprotected, the
obvious danger of such a proceedin.P.' "' 3S
represented, and the order \\'as soon \\'ithdrawn.
Ow ing to the number of occasions \\hen
troops were 'confined to barracks', it was
consid ered advisable to allo\\' members of
th ~ Corps to wear p lain clothes in going to
and from the office. Some, h oping for a

few' da ys off, stated that they were 'not

in possession', but to their surprise, due to
the ingen uity of a zealous Section Offi c~r,
the Offic~ messenger arrived at the lodgings witl'l the Pay Lists and Company Accounts, etc. After. this they were all present
at the office, but wliil~ the order for troops
to be confined to barracks was in force
they had to return to the lodgings immediately they left the office.
Martial La'w was d~clared in December,
J920 in certain counties in the south where
rebel activities were most pr~valent. In
this month also, regulations were enforceo
whereby all motor car owners had to obtain
a militar y permit for their cars. This order
applied to the " 'hole of Ireland and \"as
designed to prevent the use of cars by
disloyal persons for illegal purposes.
In order to further curtail subversive
activities the holding of Fairs and Markets
in certain cli3tricts \\'as prohibited.
During the early part of 19 2 1, miqtary
activity in Dublin (as well as in almost
every other pa rt of Ireland) \"as at its
height .
The seuching of pedestrians in the streets
bv milit3. ry patrols and by the "Black and
Tans" mis carried out to a considerable
extent and raid~ and searches for arms.
documents and Sinll F einers " 'ere carriecl
out at all hours of the da y and nig-ht. The
searchers were usually accompanied by an
armouTed car \\'hich proved useful for keeping back enquiring cro\yds and when neces-

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After a brief explanation the landladv

was released a nd th e uniforms restored to
their owners !
A short time later a raid ,,as ca rried out
QY members of the Auxiliary Police on th e
office. Two of the staff happened to be
descending tIle sta ir case to the front hall ,
when the door fi e,, open and half a dozen
or so Auxi liaries, revo lvers in hand, burst
Ill .

A bridge on a main road a{t-er destru ction by

explosives.

sary for clearing the streets.

Towards the end of I9'20 an I throug hout
the first half of the follo\\ing yea r almost
every road in the country districts of Ireland was in some way or another damaged
by the rebels in their desire to hamper the
activities of Troops and Police.
A slight idea of some of the many
methods employed can be obtained from th~
accompanying photographs.
The thro\\ing of bombs in the streets \I"a
a daily occurrence, whilst the firing of revolvers and rifles could o ften be heard in
the small hours. Most of the lorries were
protected by armour-plating and covered
with wire netting, Hie latter as a precaution
against bombs.
Some a musing incidents, ho\\"evl;r, hel ped
from time to time to break the monotony
of office routine and to give us a slight idea
of what was taking place all around us.
Some of the Other Ranks ,,ere quartered
in lodgings at a boarding house in the
vicinity of Mount joy Square during one of
the frequent house-to-house searches for
"Shinners".
The \rhole area to be
searched had previously been \rired off a nd
a cordon of troops thrOlrn a ro und it. As
the search proceed ed the ,,in; defences
were moved closer to the centre of the
enclosed area. Difficulty \ as experienced
in getting pa5t the \\ire defences to go to
the office one morning, but on returniu R
to lunch the house ,,as found to be in
possessi on of the military forces who were
carting a,,ay the uniform found in the
bedrooms. The landlady was in arrest (and
in tears) for being in unla\dul possession of
the uniform.

Seein g the individuals in uniform the

leader Qf the party asked for an explanation and on being told that it ,vas the Pay
Office he explained that he had made a
mi stake and that he had intended toO sea rch
a house a few doors a way.
On e Sunday mornin g \\h ell members ot
the military staff were in the office , having
their usual talk on promotion prospects,
the congregation on leaving Findlater's
Church, a short distance away, \Iere scattered by the firing of rifles froOm a motor
tender at ,,hich a bomb had been thrown.
Forgetting that they \\ere ,,ea ring th eir
Sunday clothes they all fell fiat on the
road and pavem en t and from the office
window it gave the impression that they
were all casualties, until a fe\\" moments
later they all go t up again and continued
on their way, as though nothin g had taken
place.
On another occasion two bombs \rere
thrown at a Roya l Air Force tender which
was passing the office in Rutla nd Sq uare.
The escort immediately opened fire, some
of the shots hitting the front of the office.
Fortuna tely, no serious damage was done,
but great amusement was caused when it
was observed that an ice-cream vendor had

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t~ken. cover behind his barro\r, using a

bISC~ll t till as an additiona I means of pro-

tectIOn.
The "Shinners" were no respecters of
persons, and it is recorded that one of the
Corps probationers when out \yalking \ritb
a young lady \\"as suddenly confronted by
several armed m~n and relieved of his
bo~ts.
Had it not been for the timely
arnval of a military patrol hI; would most
probably hav~ lost the r~st of his uniform
as welL
This was a ruse the I.R.A.
adopted to obtain military uniforms,
and one which the troops did not readily
appreciate.
Meanwhile, throughout the rest of the
country rQembers of tb-e so-called Irish Republican Army ,,ere continuin,g their programme of intimidation and destruction.
P.olice barracks were attacked and in most
cases burnt down; trains wet:a.held up on
the main lines and all passengers searched
military and police patrols \\ere constantl;
being ambushed; loyalists \\ere kidnapped
and thousands of their houses were searched
by the rebels for money, firearms and food.
Post O ffice mail vans and mail trains were
frequently held up . Letters for military
and police personnel were confiscated, and
after examination, ,,,ere returned to the
Post Office authorities endorsed 'Passed by
Censor, I.R.A."
This naturally meant a long delay in the
receipt of correspondence, if it \\"as received
at alL
After almost every outrage committed by
the rebels military and poljce search parties
\\"ere despatched to investigate, but in

A country road blocked by the boiler takBn

from an Irish Creamery.

nearly all cases those responsible were able

to make good their escape.
.T~ere. was always great difficulty in ob.
~amlllg mformation about any outragl; and
It was almost impossibl~ to get witnesses
to come forward owing to their f~ar of the
consequences if they did so.
~urfelV restrictions were imposed under
whIch all persons had to be indoors between certain hours, often as early as 7
p.m., even in the middle of summer. This
order was enforced, chiefly by military
patrols who arrested all individuals found
out of doors after the fixed hour, unless
th~y had a permit, the penalty in most
cases being a night at the police station and
a fine of s/ - on the following day.
For some time it had been felt that all
the G.H.Q. Branches should be together
in a protected area and hutments were
therefore gradually built at Parkgate to
accommodate everybody, the Command
Pay Office finally moving there in June,
19 21 .

An hi sh Courthou se

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[~pprop ria,tecl

by troops.

A main roacl it:, th e country.

The Cashier and his staff ,,ere located ill

the same hutments. At this time it was
deemed inadvisable to bav~ Regimental
officers going each week to the Banks ill
Dublin for the pay of the troops . It was,
therefore, arranged for the Cashier to draw
'20,000 at a time fro111 the Bank, each
unit in the Dublin District drawing their
money from the Casbi~r.
The latter had to go to the Bank in an
Armoured Car with an escort by a different
route on different days of thl; we~k.
A military g uard ,,as posted on the
Cashier's office and an officer of the Corps
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5. T o disco untenance a nd p revent any

action likely t o cause a breach of til e
peace ,,hich mig ht necessitate Milita ry i11lerference.

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A bridge destroyed by explosives.

During the early part of July, 19?1,

strenuous efforts were being made to bnng
about a cessation of hostilities in Ireland,
but it ,vas not until July IIth that the
Truce actually came into operation.
Unde r the terms of the Agreement the
British Government undertook :I. No additional troops, R.I.C . or Auxilial-Y Forces to be brought into Irelan d, except maint~l1ance drafts .
2. No . provocative display of forces ,
arm ed or unarmed.
3. IO Secret Service agents to be employed.
4. To apply these provisioll S equally to
th e Martial Law area and the rest
of Ireland, etc., etc.
For their part, the Sinn Fein leaders
guaranteed : I. T o cease all attacks on military and
police forces.
2. T o 'prohibit the use of arms.
3. T o cease all M ilitary manoeuvres ot
all kinds.
4. To abstain from interference with
public or private prol?erty.

In sp ite of this underta king th,:r~ were

a vast num ber of instances sho\\"Ing how
the terms of the Truce were v i o l a t ~d by th e
Irish Republi can A rm y.
In practica ll y every district th eir melllbers took th e oppo rtunity to ca rr y out mllttary trainin g , as, for th~ most part , they
believed that hostilities \\"ould soon brea k
Ollt aga in.
Tlley comma n deered a number of large
houses in all districts, and here they set up
their trainin g camps \\h ere all loca l members we re compelled to attend. The men
were very often armed .
Before Jul y, 192 1, n o mernl er of th.e
LR .A. \\'as ever seen in uniform. Immechately hostilities cease d, ho\\" ever, it \~' as
quite a com111-on thi ng to s.ee tl:em "' alk~ n g
abo ut quite open ly, \\"eann g It , flauntm g
the police and troops before \\"h0111. a fe,,
da ys previously, they would ha ye fled for
their lives.
Those lIho had previously been "on t.h.e
run" (i. e., those \yho, on account ? f t;11Ihtary activ ity, had fled. to oth er dlst n cts)
quickly returned to theIr o.,,n h01~1es, and
were n ot afraid to be seen l1l public.
.
They collected larg e sum s of mon ey (111
most cases throug h terrorising th e Loya li st
householders and tradesmen ), and a.lso by
means of dances and concerts, and tl~ls they
devoted to the re-eq uipm ent of theIr local
units.
.
S inn Fe in Cour ts, hitherto on l ~- l:eld. 111
secret soo n became an estab lished lt1stltuti on tbroug hout the country.
The above are just a few of th~ many
activities of th e rebel forces dUrIng. ~he
period of the Trnce, and yet th e Br.I~lsh
Forces were 1 owerl~ss to take any actlOn.
Meanwhile, in London, conf e ~ences were
bein g h eld between representatl~ies o f the
British Govern ment and th e Insh l eople
with a vle\\" to arranging the terms of a
.
permallent settlemeI?-t.
So difficult did thIS prove that on several
occasions the negotiations ,,,ere alm ost
broke n off, and it was not until the 6th
December, 192I, that a fin al settl~m~nt ~as
reached and signed by th e representatIves
of both I arti es, thus bringin g t o a clo~e ~11
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afterwards a genera l release of all rebels

\\"ho had been interned took p lace.
In October, I 92I , the Reg imental Pa~1
Office was moved from Rutlan d Square to
I sland Bridge Barracks and here it rem ained until finally lea vin g Ireland, some
months la ter.
A'b out the end of 192 I, a ffairs diq not
.look too well in Ireland, and there "vas
difficalty of communication bet"'een the
North and the South , so it " 'as decided to
-open a Branch Command Pay Office in
Norfhern Irelan d, and in June, I9 22 , an
-office was opened in N~wtowl1a rds Camp.
A t th e commencement the staff consisted
-of Cqptain (now Major) G. H. White.
S / Sgt. (now S.S .M. E. O. Cooper) a n d
four clerks. On ly part of th e normal work
of the office was dealt with , and all payments ,," ere made by the Cashier in Dublin.
B y degrees, th~ work connected witl;J. services which might remain in Northern I reland on the evacuation of the country, lI'as
tran sferred to thi s n ew office.
Tw o mon ths later , h owever, it was dE'-cic1ed to transfer all P ay Duti es and th e
Staff was subseq uen tly irlcreased by th e
postin g of personnel from Dublin . Major
(now Co lo nel and C.P. ) H. G. Riley took
ove r the duties of Command Pay master.
Th e military personnel were accommodated in the Camp but all civilians had to
obtain accommodation locally. Thi s was
not easy owing to th e large number of
members of th e Ulster Special Constabulary
in Newtownards. After a lot of s~archin g,
however, they managed to get accommodation in the Devonshire H otel. After th~y
had retired to bed o n the first night, three
in one room and four in th ~ a ttic, the
Special Police, having seen a number of
strangers about, decided to cany out a
-search of the hotel as they th ought they had
a capture of rebels from Dublin. They
surrounded the h ouse and placed men with
"fixed bayonets at the foo t of the stairs,
while others carried out a sea rch of the
rooms.
During the sea rch th ey only
managed to \\"ake one man ,vho happened
to be a Yorkshireman , and on his ans,,'ers
(,yhi ch they could not fully understan d)
they came to th e conclusion that the alleged
rebels were loya l and withdrew their g uard
from th e house.
There was an easy time for the first two
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Anot.h er mitin l'oitd blocked. by bo ulJers tak en

from walls at th e roacl side.

partment vessel from Dublin \yhi ch lI'as

carr);J.ng all furniture and documents required in the office.
A ll the Officers' accounts " 'ere tra nsferred to the n ew office from Dublin under
armed escort, and were S~l1t by sea via
Kin gstown, Hojyhead, Liverpool and Belfa st, in charge of S .Q.l\I.S. W. H. Bates,
,,\,ho, after handing them over, return ed to
Dublin .
Ne wtownards Camp is situated on grou nd
running dOWJl to the N orth~rn end of
Strang-ford L oug h on one sid~, anq to the
foot of Scrabo Hill on the other, and COI1 sisted of th e usual long " 'ood aqd corrugated iron huts, ead1 accom moda ting t hirty
men.
It had origi nally been occupied during
the Grea t War as a training camp for th E'
Ulster Division.
At the top of Scrabo Hill, which rises
very sharply to about 900 feet abo\'e sea
level, there was a small golf course \\'ithin
bug le sound of the Camp.
Durin g the period th at the office in
~orthern Ireland was a branch of th e Dublin office, the C.P ., Colonel Woodall, made
frequent visits of iJ1spection : at this time
the sa fest way to travel was from :F-:.ingstow n to Holyh ead a nd then from Li verpool
to Belfast.
On one occasion Col. Vlooda ll \,"as tra velling direct by train to Belfast an~ on his
return had the un pleasa nt experIence of
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the llan Is of the LR .A., who refused to

let the train proceed to Dublin and h . had
to return to Belfast and go round via Liverpool and Holyhead.
Early in 1922, as a result of the terms ?f
the Settlement a number of troops m
Southern Irela'nd wet:e gradually withdrawn and returned to England. The first
troops \"ere embarked tow~rds the end. of
January but it was not untIl the followlllg
December that the last left the country,
o"'ing to the very unsettled state of most
districts.
At this time, however, the remaining
troops \\'~re \'\ ithdrawn from the smaller
stations and concentrated in Dublin, Cork
and the Curragh.
Before the first troops left Ireland the
followi'ng Special Order of the Day w~s
issued from General Headquarters In
Dublin : PECIAL ORDER OF THE DA \'
by
GENERAL THE RIGHT HON. SIR C.
F. N . MACREADY. G.C.M.G., KC-B.,
COMMANDING-IN-CHIEF, IRELAND.
The Government having decided that the
time has ' arri\fed to commence withdrawing troops from Ireland: I wish to
express to every Officer, W.O., N.C.O. ~nd
Man my deep appreciation of the serVIces
they ha~e rendered during the time they
have formed p~rt of the hisl1 Command.
While I feel there is no desire on the
part of the Army to rake up past animosities or bitterness, you have been called
upon to perform a du~~ in many res1?ects
repugnant to our tradltIons, and ~ev<?ld of
all the o-lamour of war, though m many
ways entailing greater strain and individ1.1al
danger.
The call has been answered in a manner
worthy of the best traditions of the Service.
I honestlv believe that no other troops
'w ould or-could have carried through the
work on which you have been engaged
without loss of morale and prestige. You,
Officers and Men, have accomplished the
most difficult task that any soldier can be
called upon to undertake, and you have
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your conduct, in the eyes of all fair-minded

men, blameless.
When history is written you will find
that by your pluck, vigilance and discipline, you have contributed no inconsiderable share towards ""hat we hope may prove
eventually to be the settI~d peace and
prosperity of Ireland.
I tender to you all my personal and
grateful thanks for lightening the burden
incidental to the command of the Forces
in Ireland, duri~g the last twenty months,
and it will ever be an honour and a pridE;'
to me to have had the privilege of commanding soldiers, who, wheth~r in peac~ or
war, or under the abnormal conditions in
which we found ourselves, have proved
s~cond to none.
(Sign~d) C. F. N. Macready,
General.
General Headquarters,
Parkgate, Dublin.
17th January, 1922.
About the period that the Staff for N ewtownards left Dublin, the Battle of the Four
Comts took place in Dublin between the
Treatyites and the followers of De Valera.
All the R.A.P.C. Officers and N.C .O.s had
to move into a protected area and most
businesses, including the Banks. in Dublin ,
came to a complete standstill. The Cashier
had most exciting times collecting the cash
from the Bank fQr tb~ payment of troops.
In April, 1922, the Account!! of the South
Irish Regiments were transferred from C<?rk
to the Regimental Pay Office, WarwIck
while those of the Northern Regiments
were transferred from Dublin to what is
now the Regimental Pay Office, Leith (then
a t Hamilton).
Owing to the disbandment of the South
Irish Regiments a f~w months later ~he
work transferred from Cork to WanvIck
soon died out.
Eventually the time cam~ for the Headquarters of the Irish Command to cl?se
dO\vn. There were still many outstandlllg
questions to be cleared up and so it was
decided to open an office at Hounslow and
to concentrate a small staff there to deal
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By December the ouly troops remaining

in Southern Ireland wer~ quat:ter~d in Dublin and it was decided that betw~en December 14th and 17th these l-emainil1g units
should leave th~ Counh-y.
On the 14th the evacuation started '
and all Branches at G.H.Q . were withdrawn, about fifty officers and 1"0 other
ranks being transferred to Hounslow.
Th~ C.P., Col. Woodall and Cashier.
Captain Rayner with a small staff occupiell
accommodation in the Pay Office, whilE'
all other Branches were in huts adjoining.
All the Office records had previously been
s~nt over whil~ the accounts for tne past
six years had been sent to Kew for stol'age.
On the final day, the 17th, the la~t four
battalions in Dublin embarked for England.
They were accompanied as far as the quay
by an escort of armoured cars.
As soon as the last transport l~ft the
the armoured cars proceeded to join the
garrison of North~rn Ireland.
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1\1acready, the Commander-ill-Chief waited

on board a Cruiser in Kingsto"'n Harbour
until it was reported by wireless that the
cars had safely crossed th~ Ulster border.
The Irish Command \\'as officially abolished with effect from 17th December, 19 22'
and Ulster became a separate Command
known as the Northern Ireland District.
The Branch Pay Office at Newtownards.
became the Command Pay Office of the
Northern Ireland District with Major H_
G. Riley as the Command Paymaster.
By the 31st March, I923, all outstanding
questions had been settled and the Irish
Comm~d Office at -Hounslo\\" ceased to
exist, Col. Woodall and Cal)tain DrUlllmond b~ing posted to Chester, the former
as C.P., while Captain Rayner was postea.
to Lichfield and S.S.M. Courtney to York.
The Command Pay Office was moved
from the Police Camp to Regent's House,.
Newtownards, and some time later it was.
again moved to Victoria Barracks, Belfast,
\\'here it is situated at the present time_

Command Pay Office, Dublin-1913.

STA NDJNG.-l290 gt. W D. Hogan, 475 S.Q.M.Sgt. M. B. H. Rattersley , 1296 Sgt. A. J_

South ey, 1240 Sgt . P. rorris (now / Sgt. Major). 1266 Sergt. G. Ross (no\\' Li eut. and _A st.
P a '111 1'.), 392 S.(~.M .. J . Li vin gslone, 1243 Sgl. H. O. Lam bert. 766 Sgt. J. Mauu , 12B3
Sgt. E. T. P archm ent . 996 SI Sgt. F. W. Coo per (now Ca pt. and Ass t. Pa ymr.).
SITTFG.-519 S.S.M. E. G. BUl'l'id ge (no w Lt. -CoL , retired) , Lieut. G. A. C. OrmsbyJ oll11so l1 (no\\' Colonel), JIlaj ol' E. M. l\[lII'I'U Y, Lt.- '01. H. Q. Pinhol'lJ , Maj')l' A. C. J. Ca mpbell. Li eut. ancl A st . P ayml'. E. Coclyl'e.

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of a case and his strong sens~ of justice.
He also had literary tastes, and was the
author of sev~ra l ,,orks.

Major General Sir C laude Artbur Bray

\yho died at Dawlisb on 25th August at the
age of 75, was Paymaster-in -Ch ief to the
British Armies on the vVestern Front
throughout the Great War.
He was born in December, 1838, and was
c1ucated at Winchester and Sandhurst. In
l\Iay, 1878, he was gazetted Ensign in the
30th (Cambridgeshire) Foot-now the 1st
Bn. East Lancashire R giment.
Two years later he \I'as promoted and
during the same year saw active service in
Afghanistan.
In August, 1885, he \"as promoted Captain and in August, 189 1, he transferred to
the Army Pay Department as a Paymaster.
He received his majority in I899 and became a Staff Paymaster in 1900. During
the South African War he took part in the
operations in Cape Colony and \I'as mentioned in Despatches. He "'as a,,'arded the
Queen's Medal with t\\'o clasps and ,,'as
created a C.M.G.
He joined the Army Accounts l?epartment in May, 1905, " 'as promoted LIeutenant-Colonel in November and h\'o months
later was appointed Chief Accountant of
the Northern Command.
In July, 1906, he \yas pron~oted Colonel
and Chief Paymaster and 111 1910 \I'as
posted to the Southern Command as Command Paymaster. He was created a C,B-:in 1911.
On the outbreak of the Great War he
accompa~ied the British E?,pedi~ionary
Force to France as Paymaster-ill-ChIef. He
was mentioned in Despatches seven times
and awarded the Legion of Honour .
Having retained his appointment a~ Paymaster,in-Chief throughout the penod of
hostilities he was promoted K.C.M.G. and
retired at the end of 1918 with the rank
of Maior General after 40 years' service.
On his retirement General Bray ",ent to
live at Dawlish where he soon took an
active interest in its affairs. He \\'as ViceChairman of the Exeter Diocesan Board of
Finance Chairman of the Diocesan Dilapidations Board and a nominated member of
the Diocesan Conference.
A Justice of the Peace for Devonshire,
he was an outstanding personality on the
Dawlish Bench by reason of his quick grasp

No. 765727I, Staff Sergeant Major Duncan McFarlane died in the R.N. H ospital,
Chatham on 1st Jul y, 1934. Durin g .the
previous week the deceased had had a
stroke in the office and was admitted to
h ospital \\'here he appeared to be making
good progress until on the 1st Jnly ",hen he
had another stroke and passed a way early
that evenillg .

S.S.M. D. McFul'lane.

McFarlane enlisted at Alder hot in the

Roya l Army Medical Corps on 15 th
December, I902,
Three months later he transferre 1 to the
E :lst urrey Re.Q; iment and in the followiog
year to the Army Pay Corps.
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While . erving \Iith th e Corps he was

stationed in Colchester (1904), Malta
(1907) , Edinburgh
(I912) , Mombasa
(1915), Nottingham (1917) , Woolwich
(1920), Ceylon (1924), Woolwich (I 927),
Shrewsbury (I930), Chatham (1933). He
was promoted W.O.I. on the 14th June,
19 2 3.
The funeral took place at Fort Pitt
Military Cemetery o n 5th July \yith full
military llOtlOurs. The GUll Carriage was
follo\\'ed bv a detachment of the Depot
and Training Battalions R.E. and the
R.A.P.C . and Civilian Staff of the R.E.
and R. Signal Pay Offices.
There were a large number of floral
tributes among these being wreaths from
the Mi litarv Staff and Civi lian Staff of both
Pay Offices- in Chatham, the Old Comrades'
Association and the Social Club.
S.S.M. McFarlane took a very great
interest in the social side of the offices in
which he was stationed and his sudden
and tragic death \\'ill be much felt by his
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The d~a th of Alfred Wllliam NixOll (late

S.Q,lVLS. ) took place at Westcliffe-on -Sea
on I6th Jul y at the age of 75 years.
The deceased enlisted in the 20th Hu ssars in July, 1877 and served in Egypt for
2t years \I'here he \I'as a warded the Egyptian Medal and Clasp, "Suakin JJ 1885 and
the Khedive Bronze Star.
After over 12 years with this unit he
transferred to the Corps of Mil itary S taff
Cierks and later to th~ Army Pay Corps
( I8 93) After a further 2 I years he was
discharged to pension on 30'(h June, 19 14,
with a total of nearly 3" yea rs' service
during \"hich he was awarded the L ong
Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Jam es Walker (late S.Q.M.S. 210) \Iho

died at his residence in Luton Road,
DULlstable on 19th August at the age of 73
first en listed in January, 1880, in the 27th
Brigade 9f Foot.
In the following year he ,,,as transferred
to the 2nd Bn. Leicest~rshire Reg iment
and , remained " 'ith this unit for the next
nine years taking part in the Burmah Campaign of 1887 for \yhich he receh-ed the
Medal with Clasps.
Soon after his return to this country
Wa lker transfened to the Corps of }\'Iilitary
StaH Clerks in 1891 and subsequently to th~
Army Pay Corps--"'here he remained until
in January, 1902 he \yas discharged to
pension \\ith the rank of S.Q.M.S.
He leaves a wido\\' and a gTO\l'n ,u p
family, one da ughter being a school teacher
in Dunstable.

No. 7657846, S .Q.M.S. George Buchan

White was admitted to the Royal
aval
Hospital. Chatham, on 3rd July suffering
from tonsilitis. This took an acute turn
a"d it \I'as decided to onerate. but White
did not recover and died on .:; th July,
The deceased en li sted at Dundee in the
Army Pay Corps on 13th September, 19I8
and \,'as nosted to th~ L011don Dish-iet Pay
Office. In January, I919, he \\'as sent to
Italy and in the follo\\'ing August to
Jamaica, "'here he \\'as promoted Corporal.
On the expiration of his tour of foreign
service he returned to England and ,,'as
posted to Woolw,ich (Jan., 1923), aDd two
months later to the London Pay Office.
He received his promotion to Sergeant
in September, 1924, and to Staff Sergeant
in August, 1926.
He again proceeded abroad, th is time to
EgYl t, in September, 1926, and \I'as promoted S.Q.M.S. in August, 1929.
In February, 1932. he returned to Eng:land and was posted to Chatham (R.E.)
where he was serving at the time of his
death. H e was unmarried .
The funeral took p lace in Aberdeen on
nth July. Wreaths were sent by the Okl
Comrades' Association. the Civilian and
Military Staffs of both Pay Offices in Chatham and the Social Club.

The death took place at his residence in

W oking on r6th August of ~ illi am Henry
Gingell at the age of 56, after an illn ess of
about seven weeks.
The dec eased enli sted in the Gloucestershire Regiment in I R97 and three years
later transferred to the Army P a ~' Cor]1s.
Soon after hi tran sfer he \\'as sent out to
South Africa for wh ich he \"as a \Iarded
the Queen's Medal. After service at home
and in Singapore he was discharged to
pension in December, I925, \\ith the rank
of S.Q.1\I.S ., after 25 years' service in the
Corps
On his retirement he continued to se rve
as a Civilian Clerk in the Wokin g Office
until ill health forced him to relinquish his
post. He then settled c1O\l'n in " -ok ing.
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The funeral, \vhich took place at Brook- ,

wood Cemetery, was of a military character.
A ' detachment from th ~ Pay Office at
Wokiqg formed th~ Bearer Party while
Buglers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment sounded the Last Post.
The deceas~d leaves a widow, two sons
anq a daughter.

Horace William Ringrose who died on

June 25th enlisted into the Queen's Own
Royal We~t Kent Regiment on 3rd January, 1918 and four days later transferred to
the Army Pay Corps.
In April, 1919, he was sent Qut to
Salonika ""here he rema in ed for six months
befor~ proceeding to South Russia.
In
March, 1920, he retllrne;!d to England a nd
was discharged in the following month .
On his discharge he obtained posts in
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February, 1927 to May, 1928 he was ~m

ployed in th~ office of tjJ.e R~gimental Paymaster:, Deptford, after which he went to
the Pay Office at Wooh'vich uD,til November, 1929, when he was transferred tQ the
Air Defence Experimental Establishment
at Biggin Hill where he;! was employed at
the tim~ of his death.
The deceased leaves a widow and a child
of 7 years.

We, regret to announce that Captain R.

McL . Glassby, West Yorkshire Regiment
who j,o.ined th!! Corps on proDation in
March, 1933, was posted to York. and was
placed on half pay on account of 111 health
in August, 1933, was found in the River
O use near York on 25 th April, 1934
At th.e inquest it was disclosed that Capt.
G lass~y had be,en missing since November.

Hounslow Pay Office- 1906 .

BACK Row (left to right) ,-1297 Cpl. A. Wills (now S j Sgt, Major) 1227 Cpl. R. Blckll ell ,
1268 Cpl. W. T. Cork (now Lieut. and A st, P ay mr,), P ensr, McCoru1ell, Boy Writel B, Mc
COllnell, Pensr, J, Bennett (Boy unknown), 1174 L j Sgt, R. J, Stacey. 996 Sgt. F, W. Cooper
(no\\" Capt, and Asst. Paym I'.), 862 Sgt,. E, Anderso ll,
CE:\TRE Row ,S.Q.M,S, Wi lson, 454 S j Sgt. C. E, Whitcombe, 753 Sgt. G, J, L ace)"
695 . ' /Sgt,. J, H epburn (now Ma jor and Asst, Paymr.). 960 L j SgL C, Asher, 1106 L j !\It,
E, J, Brownings, 1182 L j Sgt, C, A , Paine, 901 L j Sgt, fL R. HarJi son ,
SJTT IKCI,-449 S ,Q,M,Sgt. E, A, Cooper, 519 S,Q.M.Sgt. E, G, Burridge (now Lt,,Col. , reLir cl).
216 S,Q.,1\LSgt. H. W , fry, 167 S,Q,1\1, gt, R. N, Rawstron , 79 S,S,M. D, C, Lawson,
179 S,Q,M,Sgt, C. G, ';"1in lel'ton , 328 S,Q,M Sgt, T, Ol'co ran, 418 S,Q M ,Sgt. J, W. Norton , 1\11',
V,lllance, 386 S ,Q,M.Sgt, W, H. 'W atts, l'vIe sen;!;c r NOlTis.

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Aldershot Command
COMM,A ND PAY OFFICE ALDERSHOT.
Detachment News.-Trie summer eason has not
fail ed to come up to expectations, and we can be
justly pleased with ourselves and our various suc
<cesses . Congralulations to those who took part and
thanks to th e men behind th e scenes; not forg etting anI' band of willing workers who ri se nobly
to eve ry occasion in satisfying th e " inn er man".
ChangES continue in our rrridst, Cp\. Halt has
gon e to Southern Command and Sern-t, Knapp and
S.Q,M.S, Jack have joined from Ma~ta an d Wool
wicb.
Appointment .-CpL p, Ca m midge ap-pointEd Paitl
L j Sergt" 1 j 7 j 34,
Sergts.' Mess- Office Outing.-The venu e of the
.annual IOffice onting was Hayling Is lan d, . vVe
started off soon after 9 a.m, on Sat,urday , 21st,
,Jul y, in a fl eet of three "Farnham B lue " coa hes,
'The weath_er at the outset looked very unpromis
ing, but, as on the previous occasion, we were later
favoured wit,h blu e skies <tnd brillian t, sunshin e,
A halt was made at P ete r fi eld on the forw<trd
journey and the rnn contioued through some of
the mo st be<tutiful SCE nery in the Shire.
An ex panse of mud, the tide being low, came iJlto
-view on the North side of th e island , and caused
some fluttering iT! the dOV ecot es of the intending
bathers, but the sight. of a wide stretch of sand a nd
:a motley crowd on the SoutJ1 side alla yed thEir
perturbation, l\'lany indnlged in swimming and
aquatics before lun ch, whi le other p""yed cri cket
~n the sands ,
Lunch, to which ninet.ythree were seated , was
1;erved at the Ba,th Cafe ,
Th e afternoon produced general participation in
gam es. sw imming, et,c. Among the ba,th ers were
Lt.Colonel and Mrs , R.ogers and Ca'pt, and 'Mrs,
'M.illing,
Visibi li ty was good, the Isle of Wight. heing well
"on view" and the passin g sh ips afforded an add ed
'interest to those who lazed on the beach in the
da7.zli ng s unshine.
Th e general opinion is that we . truck t he right
"outling" note and everybody enioyed it thorou ghly,
Our thanks are again clue to Sergt. LanghanL
Visit of Woolwich.-On Frichv. 13th Julv , \\"e
were visit ed by a party of 60 '-from the Royal
Arti ll ery Recorcl and Pay Office, Woolwich, cricke t
'lInd t enni s having been arran~ed, Heavy shower,
fell during the morning , but after the 80 present. had
~isp'osed of lun ch. provid ed by the Sergea nt~ ' Me s.
a coa ch was loaded up and off set 'the cri ckete rs
to reverse, perhaps, t he result of the la st meetin g.

Arrived at th e cricket ground and permission to

play being finally obtained, old man PJ)]\'iU5 took
up the attack a nd with a deluge sent both sides
back to the P ,wilion, whence a hun;ed rEturn was
made to the Mess, The afternoon th w quiclilly
passed with a whist drive, games. reunion, other
indoor a m usemen ts ancI a t,e<t party for 110, The
weather fin ally cleared aner tea and, no cas ualties
being reported in spite of the date and the ,,' et after
noon , good. bye was waved at 8 o'clock, even the sun
coming cut to cheer our visitors Oli their homeward
way.
Cricket.-With the weather behaving itself fairly
well we have enjoyed three months of good cricket,
and of th e match es played np to 18th _\ugust, 12
have been won, 8 lost and 2 dra\yn.
Several of the 'matches have beEn Yel")' exciting,
and on Ilwo occasions I\'e have lost by one run:On June 9th v. Freet 2hd Xl 'who ' scored 153 to
whi ch we repli ed with 152:
On August 4th v. MidSout1IHn C,C. \\'ho scored
134 against our 13~.
'
The team has played well togeth er, and some
high scores ha\' e been made. F eaf,lll'e" of the
games played have heen the consistent batting by
Lt.Col. Bogers andi Sergt. Endacott, backe d up uy
some fin e hard hitting by Captains Tngpen and
Haggard and ergt.. Grant, Chief bowling honours
fall to Sergts, Grant and Endacott. the former have
ing already taken well over it hundred ,,-ickets
(including Corps matches).
Eight fixtures remain to be fulfill ed before our
S3ason ends on the 8th Septemher.
Rain spoi lt tJ1e visit of the Wool wich office from
a cricket point of vi ew, and the unfortun ate secle
tary had to suffer for ananging th e fix~ul'e on a
Friday-and the 13th of the month of Jul y, How
Eve r, the day was spent cheerfully ind oors. rind a
whist drive was ab ly run by Sgts. Coop~r an d
Hansom , Those who did no t partake of the \I' hi t
drive had plenty of other <tmusemeuts. Everyone
yoted it a good day a nd 'ti s sa id that some of the
visitors ex prEssed the vieI\' that, cricket i a gran d
game when pla.ved on the hearth,
We ha \'e been fortunate in being able to ee the
Austra li an p'lay hEre aga inst the Arm~' on the 15th
Augns t, a nd most or II spent the hest part of the
day watching the match, A rare treat I
nd oh!
to be a Bradman , or to be able to turn that, b<tll
lik e O'Beilly,
We are losing Captain In gpe o, Sergt. Endacoti,
and Sergt , Lawrence who nre for overseas, and our
loss wi ll he others' gain . Good lu ck go with them,

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Th e seaso n's I'es nlts are:RA.O.C. 97. C.P .O. 19.

2 oV. R.A.M.C. 91. C.P. O. 108.
vVokln g 35. C.P.O. 119 for 5 dec.
C. P.O . 194 for 7 dec. Ald e rs ho~ Wanderers
1,70 for 5.
'2 nd Wilts. R egt . 194 for 9 dec. C.P O. 93 .
C P .O . 2.23. Ph illips Ltd. 51.
Fl ee t 2nd Xl 153. C.P.O. 152.
Mid So uth ern C.C. 102. C P.O. 120.
C.P.O. 131. A.D. Co rps 134 for 1.
C.P.O. 225. H oun slow P .O. 78.
.P.O. 121. 1 Coy. RA.M .C. 156.
C.P.O . 125. A.KC. 82.
A . D . Corps 128. C.P.O. 120.
l\LKK 71. ('. P.O. 120.
C. P.O. 140. Farnham Post, O. 134.
C. P .O. 185. fl eet 2nd XI 83.
C. P .O . 72. R A.S.C.- "A" 108.
C. P .O. 170. RA.V.C . 36 for 4.
('.P.O . 151. 2nd Wilts. R egt. 78.
C.P.O. 133. MidSouthern C.C. 134.
C. P.O . 156 for 6 dec. RA.O .C. 80.
RA .S.C. "A" 169. C.P.O. 170 for 4. .
Tenn s.-Once again we have had ",n enjoyabl e
tenni s season. Th e final of the Offi ce Handi cap
Doubles wi ll be held on Friday. 31st August. after
th e final s of th e Rhin e _~rmy Cup have been played.
Tb e competitors in the latter event al'e :Sergt. Rrooke-North ern Command.
Sergt. Ormerod-West ern Comm",nd.
Sergt. 'Ranson-Southern Command.
Sergt. Kni ght-Ea stern Command.
S / S~. Boggis-,\ ld ershot, Command.
During the season we were a ll otted a grass ~urt
in addition to the hard cou rt, and full use has been
made of it.
We have played four fri endly matches-home and
away fixtur eS al'ainst the Racketeers and Ash Va le
Tenni s Clubs. To tlle R acketeers we lost 3-6 a t
hom e and 4-5 amav. Ash Vale T. C. beat us 4-5
on OUI' conrt but \~e managed to win 6~~ awa:r.
We are lookin g forward to meeting these clubs agam
next season.
R.A.P.C. Aldershot Command again win Senior
DiviSion sergts.' Mess League and S'e nior Cup .. 'fW1)
Command Championships also retained.
The follo wing details w ill give som e idea of the
strenuou s seaSO'1 experi enced bv th e players of t.hlS
Command.
Ser@'eants ' Mess League- Se.nior DiVision and Senior
Cup.
Matche
Points .
pl ayed. Fo;' Ag'nst
Winn ers : RA.P .C'. j\lCl els hot.
Cd mmand
15
112
23
Runn rsUl) : No. 1 Section
RA.O.C. ..
15
88
47
R,.A .P.C . a.vel'age: 7.46 sets pO' mat ch of 9 sets .
Tea m :-S.O .M.S. Gibson a nd Sergt. Enda cott

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Plate Singles.
2nd Round. Lieut. WalterR beat S / Sgt. Boggis
6/ 3 ; 9 / 7.
Open Doubles.
CaRts. Sweeny and Bright bea t
1st Round.
2/ Lts. Yates a nd Mi l e~ 6/ 1 ; 6/ 2.
2nd Round. Ca pt.s. Sweeny and Bri g ht beat Major
Fa ulkn er a nd Lt. Young 6/ 4 ; 6/ 2.
31'd Round. Capt,s. Lew isBa I'cl ay and Bl'owne
beat Cap ts. Sweeny and Bright 6/ 4: 6/ 2.
I nter-Regimental Doubles,
2nd Round . Cap t s. Campion a nd Bri ght R E.
be'tt Major Stanham and Capt. Sweeuy 6/2 ;
6/ 8. ; 6/ 3.
Inter-Regimental Singles.
1st Round. S / Sgt. Boggis beat, Sapper Golby
6 i1 ; 6/0.
1st Ronnd. Sergt. Endacott heat C.S.M. Atkin
son 4 /6 ; 8 / 6 ; 9/ 7.
.
2nd Round. S / Sgt. Boggls beat. W .O.I. Strange
6/ 3: 6/ 1.
.
2nd Round. COlpl. Tl el'l1311 beat Sel'gt. Endacott
,
.
6/ 3; 6/ 8 ; 8 J .
3rd Round. L /Cp!. Gates b eat. S / Sgt. Boggl s 6/4:
4/ 6 ; 6 /0.
Other Ranks Doubles.
2nd Round . W .O.I. Strange ancl Se rgt. End,,
cott beat M.Q.M.S. Harl ey and S / Sgt. McLal'en
6/ ;): 6/ 2.
. b
2nd Round . S j Sgt. ElaT]) and S /Se:t. BOgglS eat
S.Q.M.S. Roycl'oft and S / Sgt. Mocldol'd 6/3'

31'~/~olJnd.

Sergt. Shard low and Q.M.S. Hobbs

beat W.O.I. Strange and Sergt. Endacott 6/2 ;

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Elam in th e semi final of th e Other Rank s Doubles,

we expectEd th em to put up a good fight in th e
fin al. but ex pectatio:1s were not reali sed . Boggis
and Enc1 acot t wel'e both Entered for th e Oth er Ranks
Singles; Enclacot,t reached th e seco nd round a nd
succumbed a ft er two ex haustin g matches , whi lst
Boggis 10, t in the 3rd round to L / Cp!. Gates, wh ose
perfol'man ces in his first app'Earance in Army Cham
pi .Jnship s a u g ur ~ 'veil for hi s futUl'e.
For th e Comm and Champ,ionsh ips th e entries were
the s mall est known for several y e:ll's. Ow in g to
Sgt. Enda cott bein g required. for Co rp . cri cket.
S/ Sgt. Boggis, in addition to defend ing t.h e -qnit,
Champi onship Doubl es a nd SIl1g1es Cham plOnsfl 'ps.
partn ered S / Sgt. Elam in th e Unit Doubl es. It
was un fortunate \\' e mis sed the "treble" again, but
credit must be given to The Bays rep'esent.ative
(S.Q.M.S. Roycroft) for hi s win in the Sing les
Ohampion hip.
Howe ver, we Rucceedeel in retaining both th e Unit
Champion ship Doubles and th e Unit Doubles. III
t,he fin al of the lattlf.r Boggis and. Elam had a com
fortabl e w in after a sh aky start. Th e final of the
Champi on 11ip Doubles' wns a big stll'pr ise. A hard
match was a nti cipated as the RA .M.C. had th e
assistance of Capt,. Clynton.Reed,. th e Army and
Wimbl edo n player, but so effectIve were 'Capt.
Sweeny a nd S / Sgt. Boggis at tTl e n et th at their
oppon ents h ad no chance to sett.1e down , and th e
match end ed in a decisive win for our pair.
Th e Senior Division of the Sergea nts ' Megs
League was won for the 3rd year in s uccession.
anel as the rules of this competition llUve been
am~nd d sin ce last veal' , tJle WInning of tIle Leagu e
carried witll it th e Senior Cup. It, wou ld be unfa ir
to di scri min ate where all have given of th eir best.

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Th e t ea m ha s plnyed un ch an g~d throu gl,out th e

an d as . at times, it was nec!!ssary , to play
as m any as three matches in a week, it will he
alJPrecintE d that th e players have given up a CO Il sid ernble a mount of their spare time to t he good of
the cau sp, and in thi s connection may we. co nvey
our thank s to th e good ladies wllo have signed thell'
passes. Th e spirit of the tea m has b een good
t,hrou ghout th e eason; games wh ich aRpeared hope.
less ly lost ha ve bee n puUed out of the fir e w;hh
un failin g reg ula rity , t hus er.abling a. reco l'cl
CI'Oj) of points to be gathered. Bv a r ema rknl le
coin cid ence Boggis and El a m lost their only set JII
th e last mat,ch of t.he _eason OIl th e R .E. Courts.
Th eir on ly previous deCea t sin ce being paired togeth er was in the cO I'respondinl!' match last seagon.
Our th anks a re again du e to Co1. Mackenzi e. Lt..
Col Skinner, Lt,.Col. Rogers and th e ChieC Clerks
of both offices for th eir invaluable assistan ce durin g
th e seaso n , and we mu st a lso co ngratulate S.Q.M .R.
' Milson on th e successful results of hIS lnbou l's on
behalf of Corps Tennis in this Command .
Rifle.-As statEd in the last issue of th e
"Journal" . we entered a t eam in th e Nort.h Hamp.
ghil'e Summ.l' Leag ue. We have compl eted our
fixtures, but as some results have still to be noti.
fied we sha ll ha ve to wait unti l t,he nex t issue(
of the "Joornal" hefore publishing our position .
D etails of our performance at the Annoal Rifl e
Meet ing (Small Bore) at Crookham will also he
notified l ~ter.
Th e followin g conversation took place at the
3rd Carabiniers sport~: --
Chelspa P ensioner : "What do vou belong to? "
S.Q.M .S.: "The Roval Army Pay Corps."
Chelsea P ensioner : " !!ver heard of tJiem!!"
~ e as on ,

S / Sgt . El am and S / Sgt. Boggis beat

W.O .I. P..:mlow a nd S.S.l\L Coleg 6/ 2 ; 6/3.
SemiFinn,1. C.R.M. At kinson and Se,rgt. Kllll!ht
beat S / Sgt. E lam a nd S/ Sgt. Bogg ls 6/ 2 ; 3/6 ;
6/ 3.
Championship
Command
Championships-Unit
Doubles.
Semi Fina L Capt. Sweeny and S / Sgt Boggis
beat Major SWllley and S. Condr Davies 6/0 ;
6/ 2.
B
. b t
Final. Ca pt. Sweeny and S /Sgt.
oggls ea
Capt. Clyn tonReed and S / Sgt. B'lI'low 6/ 2: 6/2.
Unit Doubles.
.
1st Round. S / Sgt. Elam a nd S / Sgt. BOgglS w.o.
RA. '.C. (Scratched.)
. b t
SemiFinal. S /Sgt. Ela m and S / Sgt. BOgglS ea
6[1; 6/2.
Q .M .S . H owlana and S / Sgt. IVlockford
B
- beat
F ilial.
S / Sgt.. E lam and S / Sgt.
0~!P/8- 6/1'
S.Q .M.S. Roycroft, and Corp'1. Glov er
,:
,
6/ 0.
Unit Singles ,
6/ 3
;
1st Round . S / Sgt. Boggis beat S / Sgt. Grey

4~.

6/ 1..
Semi
"'ilIa.1.

RISenrt. Elam a' l(l S ! Sergt. Bo ggi ~ 44-1

S.O M.R. COl'bett and Sergt. 0 Co nnot'
28-17.
.
S.Q.M.S. Wil ~o n ( on playing Captalll
and H on. Recy.).
Army Championship~-Single ::> Championship.
.
2nd Rou"'!. Capt. T. Swee'IY beat S / Sgt. BOggl E
6/ 1: 6/ 3.
S
3rrl Rounel. Ca pt. Toogood beat Ca pt. we n,v
6/ 4 : 7 / 5.

S/ S g t . B OgglS
. Ilea t S / Sgt. Loring

F:~{} 6~~Q.M.S.

Roycl'oft beat S / Sgt. ,:I3 oggis

7 / 5 ; 6/ 3.
. cl el~i Osf our
Thursday) 20th July , saw th e rem am
(h"
r epresentabves 111 t.he Army Champ ions Pb lo w
feat d. It was not that our playe r wen I~t l,l e
fOl'm hut th eir oppon ents puIJ ed out that . I V
ext,r; that co unted . After -the tin e. show put . up ~(I
Sg',. Kllight and his pa l'tner ag:llllst Bogg ls a

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Eastern Command
COMMAND PAY OFFICE,
EASTERN COMMAND.
Cricket forms th e major port.ion o[ th e new s fOl'
thi.s quarter and to thtte twelve matches hav e
b een played, seven having hee n won , t wo drawn
and the remaining three lost. Vi sits ha ve been
made to Barnet, Chatham and Houn slow and we
have to th ank th e staff of tJ1 ese offices for the
hospitality extended to us on th ese occasions. Oul'
once has the t eam been in any way disgraced by
th e score. this being wh en we vj SitoEd
hath:))u.
It is possible, however , that th e char-a.-banc rid e
a nd the p-artaking of a full lunch on th e way had
"Something to do with this. In the r eturn gaJl1P.,
however, we managed to obtain our revenge.
When due to play the RA .S.C., Kensington on
13th July, we were h eld up by rain for a considerable period and decided in th e short time available
to bat for a p'eriod of 20 overs each (less, of co urse
if the side were out before that time) the 'sid e
rr.aking the mo t runs to win . Thi s proved a very
novel experiment and produced a most exciting
game which we won by 14 runs. It is one whi ; h
C~ll b ~ I' commended to t ea ms who fir.d th emse!-Jes
similarly situated.
D etru1 of scores is as follows:31st :May . E astem Com m l~nd P.O. (Sgt. Mudd
42) 126. Barnet (Mr. Haddock 5 for 2-3;
S.(.:M.S. MattlHiws 4 for 14) 62.
7th June. Dept.fol'd (Mr. Haddock 6 [or 34) 96.
Eastern Command P .O. 79.
15th Jun e. East.em Command P.D. 46. Chat
h am 82 for 6.
21st Jun e. Eastern Command P.O. (S.Q.M .S.
Matthcws 59) 148. RA.S.C. , K ensington
140 for 7.
4th Jul" . Houn low (Mr. Haddock 5 for
28) - 79. Eastern Command P.O. (Mr.
Osbol'll 69, not out) 161.
20th JuJy. Houn slow (S.Q.M.S. 1IrIutth ews 4
East.ern Comman d P.O.
[or 21) 118.
(S.Q.M.S. Matth ews 54) 112.
25th Jul: . 18 Co. R.A.M C . Mi ll bank (Mr.
Osbom 5 for 39) 113. Eastern Command
P.O. (S.Q.M.S. Matthews 89, not out) 171.
2nd August. Woolwi ch (Sgt. E van s 5 for
J9) 114. Ea. tern Command P.O. (Sgt.
Mudd 40) 115.
17th Augu~t: . Ch'ltha m (Mr. H adclock 5 for
43) 1.32. Eastern Commund P.O . (S.Q.M .S.
Matthews 53) 138.
Owinij to our t ennis p layers being fully occupied
with CI,'ICkEt, it is not often that we are able to
enjoy a game of tennis; but by the kindn ess of the
Woolwich Office we were abl e to play two fri end ly
matches on the courts at Woolwi ch. These games
were great.ly enjoyed by all who took part, and
strangely enough the res ult was the am e on each
occasion , Wool "ich winning by nine sets to seven.
Th e powers-that-be have been fairly good to us
th i ~ Troop-er, only t hree N.C.O. s b eing und er
o r.-lers to proceed overseas-Sgts. R,llsh and B adger
for Hong Kong. and Sg t. Fox for Shanghai. We
hone that these three will enjoy their trip to
China.

BARNET.
Departures and Arrivals.-Colon el E. J. Carter,
Royal Tank Corps, Th e Offic~ r i/c R ecord and Pay
Office, retired on 7th August, and has been succeeded by Colonel H. W. D akeyne , D.S. O. , also
of the R oyal Tank Corp's.
Sgt. F . A. Jon es leaves [or J amaica in October,
and .S.M. J. T. K a ine for Egyptl in November.
'I1\l e wish both a happy tour in their new stations.
Cricket.- The season has not been an ontstanding
one for the number of wins recorded, but aU games
have proved enjoyable and the social side has been
well appreciated both by 111e vjsitors and ourselves.
Results.
31 / 5/ 34. Eastern Command 126. Barn et 62.
14 / 6/ 34. Deptford 102. Bamet 30.
'2S / 6/ 34. Hounslo w 88. Barnet 97.
31 / 7/ 34 . Deptford 74. Barnet 30.
2/ 8 / 34 . Hounslow 126. Barnet 80.
16/ 8 / 34 . Barn et Poli ce 99. B al'llet 66.
" OFFICE REP."
CANTERBURY.
N eWS i ~ so raTe on this occasion that we tabulate
the results of our cricket club to h elp fi ll up OUl'
usual amount of spa ce. A few move have taken
place sin ce th e last iss ue. and we have ai d fareWell to Sgt. Cha ntler , a fter a ve l':' lengthy tay
h ere . a nd to L / Sgt. Targett. Th ey have proceeded
to York (C.) an d Ca tteri ck r espectively, and ha,e
been replaCed here by L / Cpl. Branch from Woolwich a nd Cpl. Ca,t\q from Chatham . Th e last
nam ed and Sgt,. Ba rl ing have marri ed recently, and
th e good wishes of th e D etachm ent were ext ended
to w1 em on th ~se occasions.
Cricket.v. Ca nterbury P.O. Won 103-36. (Pte. R.
Hold~n 6 fOI' 13.)
v. Sgts. Depot. Buffs. Won 123 fol' 4-70.
(Sgt.. Cha ntler 34 n.o.)
v. Canterbury P .O. Won 120-115. (S. Q.M. .
Seott 34 n .o .)
v. Barham. Lost 41-13l.
v. Sgts. D epot, Buffs. Won 150-120. (Cap!"
l\ralpass 42 n.o . and CHI. Soper 43.)
v. F avel'-h am Allian ce. Lost 110-144 for 8.
(Mr. Al110s 22.)

v. (';hatham R & P . Offices. W on 78-74.

v. W estbere. L ost 74-119. (Pte. R. Holden
6 for 40.)
v. Wh itstable Mun icipal. L ost. 73-92. (Pte.
R. Ho.ld en 25.)
v . Lefevres. Lost 65-70.
v. V.l e t,bere. Lost 64-77. (Sg t . Barn shaw 5
for 21. )
v. Ldevres. Won 78-69. (L / Cpl. Branch 4
[o.r 8.)
v. Co urt Bros.
Won 151-74.
(.Q.1\L S.
Scott 70, Pte. R Holden 46.)
v . Simon Langton's School. ' Von 75--4l.
We were very SOlTY that a proper delu ge maned
our vi sit t.o Chatham a nd caused th a ba ndonm ent
of our makh with them when we had scorEd 147
for the 10. s o[ 5 wicKets, P te. RamsayHolden
scoring 87 not out.
Office Outing.-Th e venu e thi s year was Dy.m chu rch. Th e few who attend f-d were favoure.d w;\h
a day of glorious su nshine, a nd a most enJoya ) e
day was Sp'ent on the fine stret ch of sand s.

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CHATHAM (ROYAL ENGINEERS) .

Deaths.-It is wi t h th e deepest regret (.hat, we
ha ve t o reco rd the dea th s of S . . 1\1. D. McFa rll1n e
and S.Q.M .S. G. B. Whi te. whi ch occurred in th e
Roval
ava[ Hospita l, ChatJ1am , on 1st a nd 5th
July, ~~34: respec~IVely.. Further de tai ls ~tppa r
und er ObItuary" In thl- Iss ue.
Arrivals.- vVe ex t end a h earty we lco me to
S.Q.,M.S. Tum er,
S / Sergt.
W a rmington
and
L / Sergt. Gower, a11d hope that. th eir st~1.y in thi s
station will be enjoyable.
.
Departures --S.Q.M .S. T . Blackett ha s left us on
posting to th e London Offi ce, on probation for
S'.' .M. W e a ll offer our congratula tion s with be t
wl shes for th.e future . Several m emb ers, t.hinkin g
of th e p'as t eight seasons, are now wonderina how
th e.v will be inform ed of W est H am 's pr~gress
c1urmg th e commg soccer SEa on-so me o f th eir
d e fe a~s in t.he past needed a. very good s upport er to
explaIn.
Sergt. Shaw ha s been posted lo R egim ental Pay
Duties WIth tJl e Royal SIgnals D eta chm ent and
COIpl. Catl y has left us on tl'an s fer to Canterbury.
Th eir fri end s in thi s D etachm ent wi sh them tlie
best of lu ck for t.he future.
Congratulations - OUt co ngra tulation s are extend ed to L / Sgt. Ta 101' on hi s appointment to that
rank , a nd to .Private P acock on havin g l),uccessfully pas ed hi,; eX:J mll1atlons and tran sf~ ITe d to th.!
Corps.
Marri age. -On the 30th Ju ly, a t lhe Pa l'i ~. h
~hurch 01 St. Margaret's ,. Roche t er, Sel'~eant .R .
rask er \\ a mar1'1 d to Ml s '~7 i nifred Edlth May.

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til e daug hter of S.Q.M.S. W. J. lI<Iay, RA.P .C.;

and on. 28th Jul y, a t, the Bapti st Church, Gillinllhalll . our popular Adrema Operator, Miss C. E.
Purt, Wl1S marned to Mr. H . In chbolcl. Our hea rtj e5
congratula tIOn s are extended to th em with be t
wishes [0 1' th e future.
Cricket.-A very hea vy programme has nearly
bee n compl e.t d, a nd so (ar t he ba lan ce of resu lts is
Ju st III ( .Ul lavout'. R e ults a re as follows :-Won 9
drawn 5 and lost 12. Th e tea m have scored a total
of. over 100 run s on 12 occasion. _ t the tim e of
gOll1g to press we have J'iYe more m atc hes to pla.y,
t hree of (h em belllg agalllst th e Deptford. Woolwi ch
and Lon uon Offi ces . To dat e Mr. A . Bak er ha s
taken 66 Wi ckets and Sergea nt E ga ll 62. For batti ng I til. A. Baker leads th e way havin g scorecl 417
runs for an average of 19. Ot.hers a re as follows: L / Sgt. Pu ll in 299 runs, a \'erage 1 ~ . 5 ; Sergt. E ga n
210 run s, average 1O.q: and CaptaJn R S. E ll icotL
196 ru ns, ave rage 13.1.
D.lll'lng th e sea on matches hav~ been played
agaInst the ofh ces at Houn slow, vVarley. Canterbur y, D eptford , Vi100lwICh and Easterll Command .
1\. mat.ch has lKen a rranged with th e London Office
tD ~ tak e place at BUItOIlS Court .on 5th September,
19J4. W e ha ve endeavoured th iS year to play a ll
the Offices IJl the Ea t ern Commanr!. our only regret
IS t hat th e Barn et Office were un able to m eet us.
How ever , we hOPe to rectjfy th a t n ext season. We
ta ke this opportunity of thanking all detachments
th'1t ha~e entertained us, help' ing us to renew old
fl'l end shl ps a nd to make new ones. We hope to
have th e p lea sure of mee tIng them all again next.
season.
S~~PPER.

P hoto: Mcdway SlruUos Cha fh a m.

Record and Pay Offices, Chatham, Cricket Club 1934

TOPROw: Mr. W. Pinhorn e, Mr. E. Hogg, S.Q.1II S. L. G. B:rkelf-Y', L / Sgt. W. C.
Pu 11 111, Mr. A. S. Bak er . SgL G. D. ~gan , L / Sgt. C. W a tson, - Cp f. C. Mock ler,
S/ Sgt. H. Warml ngton , Mr. R Hanis.
MWDLE ROW: . L\ - 01;. W . A. Britten, C .B.E. , Major W. Momn, O.B .E ., M.C. ,
olonel C. W. M. l! l1:th. M.C , CaptaIn R S. E lli cott. S.S.M. C. P ea rce.
BOTTOM IW\\,: Sgt. H . FOl'se, S.Q.M.S. , J . H. Pit.t ham, Mr. C. W, Guest.

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Oeat hs.-Th Detachment offers its de pe t symgathy 10 the relati ,-es of S.S .M. D. McFarlane and
l::i.Q.M.S. G. ,,7hite on the death of these popula r
Warrant Officers.
Marriage.- H earti est cong ratnlatioll s a re acco rd Ed
Sergeant D . ,r. A . Adlam 011 h is marriag e to Mi ss
A. -C. Pau ll at Saint Mark's Church , Gillingbam,
{) n 28th July_
Cr:cket .-1\s the worthy corres pondent of the
Rova l Engir,Eers Detachment is "\V.riting-up" the
crick eting achievemel,ts of th E- com 1 med office.s . It
is bnt "en passant" that we congratulate Pl'lvate
A . Bak~r on his seltction to p'lay for the CorpS'
in all their mat.ches this seaso n. a nd also on two
useful scores made b him in the series.
Hockey.-Th e combin ed offices hav decided that
tha game of hockey he in chld ed in thei ,' ~ctiviti es :
and with their usual gusto have fort,hWl t h begun
10 practice th e aforesaid pastim e. 'r \ S th is will be
o ur fir st season in th is ga me it was sugges ted that,
the fixtures be mostl y with the ladies' cluhs: but
a fter some considerat.ion l hi s was r ejectEd! R eve rt ing to fact. chall enges arc awa ited 1rom other
offices for th e hockey season.
Soccer.-Again chall enges are awaited ~rom our
010 fo es at Association football , and It IS hoped
th at. the offices we had the pl easure of beating (?)
l ast year, on most e':li?yable occ:. ions, w ill give us
th e samE opportllrutl es 111 the
onl1ng wmter.
Already ~ome of the youngsters have. started pracI,ice (wit.h th e fin al t est match stIli 111 progr,~ss!)
a lt hou gh their blood has not been cooled by lon g
SErvice in for eign climes".
Tennis.-Th e office team was defea ted in the
second round of th e Eastel'l1 Command Tourn ament
by the senior strin g of t he Corps of Ro:val En gin eers,
aftR.l' a very hard and g.allan l, struggle, .
Wh en the rl et achment IS not pa rtakmg 111 any of
t he above sports it i.s usuall y waiting wit h apprehen ~i on for the pf.nod.l c swo0p.s of t I,e L .A. 01'
li st.eni ng to an eye-w itnesE account of the Test
match .
As can be ~uess~d fr om th e above we are _Dot
ant icipati ng the winter 5n th e. usual lu gubrI OUS
manner, indeed. our Th,ro D,V,SIon footb all ent hu siasts are saying "roll on Saturday" !
SeegeeM.
HOUNSLOW .

Cricket .-We have played 18 mat.c hes thi s season ,

the results bein g as follows:Home.
v. Chath am . Lost b r 6 wickets.
v. London. Won by 3 wickets.
v 71h Hussars . L ost by 32 run s.
v. Barnet. L ost by 9 runs.
v. Deptford. Won by 47 run s.
\'. E astern Comm and. ,~r on by 6 run s.
v. V eterans. L ost hy 4 run s.
v . Depot Royal Fus iTi er . Won b y 3 wichts.
v. Woolwich. Lost by 26 rllns .
v. R.A.S .C. (Kensin gton) . Won by 6 wickets.
Away.
v_ London . Won by 135 r uns .
" . Ald ershot. Lo t by 147 runs.
v. Woking . vVon by 47 run s.
v. East ern Command . Lost by 6 wickets.

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v. Woolwich. \ ;VOII bv 129 run s.

v. Ch"tham. 'WOII by' 6 wicket s.
\' . Dal'l1et. Won by 4 ri ckets.
v. RA. C. L ost by 2 wi cket s.
Til e out tanding feal.s of th e games were :- Batt ing: Colone l Cla rk e 50, Ca ptain Clo\\'es 68 and 65,
Sgt. La nca ter 62. Bowl'ing: Co l. Chll'ke 7 for 33
a,ndl 6 for 37, Sig. P il kin gt oll 7 for 25, 6 for 36, Q
for 32 a nd 6 for 37, L / Sgt. Ca te rham b for 2D, 5
for 31 a.nd 5 for 39.
Genera l.-The Office outing t ook place on th e
30th Jun e to Bl ackpoo l. Th o,e who went. voted
the outing a g reat succe s a nd th o rou g hl~' enjoyed
the journey, togE-l.hel' with the nttm t ions th e
Winter Gard en- a nd the Tower offered.
Custo mary congratulations are ex t end ed to L /Sgt.
Cat erham a nd ' pI. Porter on their appoilllment and
promo tIOn r es pectIvely; also to Slg . Pllklngton on
hi s t ran fer and to GI1I'.
ye 011 comp letion of a
success ful three mont,hs in th e COl]ls.
S.Q .M.S. Turn er was posted to Chatham (R E.)
on th e 6th Augus l, and wi ll be greatl.v mi ssed in
thi ORiee.
L / Sg t . Lo we ry \ as ma rri ed on th e 18th A ugust_
W e sin cer ely wish him every happine s.
Sgt. H all ett an d L / Sgt. Caterh am are leav in g li S
in the near future havin g been posl,ed to E gypt and
Gibra1t ~r rEspectively.
.
L /Sgt. Spoon er entered for the 50 kilom etres Road
W alkin g Association National Championsh ip held at
Croydon on the 23rcl Jun e_ H e did the di tance
(31 mil es approx .) in 5 hours 2-3 minut es ~ nd obt ained sixteenth p'osit ion.
WARLEY .

Sport ,-It fl'lJC}uently exhaust s what littl e journalist,ic capabi lities I mav possess to find mattEr of
general interest to repo rt und er thi s hea ding , ~ lI rl
th e advent of l,he cri cket. seaso n is genua ll y welcomo to th e O ffi ce R epresentative by reason of the
fact th at it is news, and wh eth er t he efforts of the
Office are successful or not., th ere is something to
rei ort .
It is, how ever. fr equently the case. that when
things do happen they time th emselves to occur all
at on ce. a nd in t.h e effort to describe them adeq ua tely
one feels at a loss with the amount of news' aya il .
able , to do th e p'~si tion th e justice it merits.
Wh en a sm:t.11 office like vVarlev su Id enly dI Scovers a t.ennis champion amongst i'ts num bers it is
certainly news, but t o di scover , on ly on the 'following day, that we have also a g.olf cll.amplOn,
mth.!' makes the e mpl oy m e~t of cap itals necess,uy.
It rat,her len ves us wo ndel1.ng t o what ex tent th e
epidemic is likel to sp read-w hat ?ther ~mbr~' o
cham pi ons in our midst co ntinue to hId e t.hEl! h ght
und er a "pokey die" box or whatever It IS one
hid es on c's li ght under. So far, however, we have
.
ha d no furth er ag reeable surprises,
Generally speak in g things a re now mu ch qUl ete l>
but our pleasure call be apprecinled \Yh e':! our Reg1mental P ay master. L t.-Col. . FO~'de arnved \nth a
mini ature cnp, th e res ult of hIS ~ fforts at, the
RA.P.C. Officers' Tenni s Tourna ment at, Hoehampton. Oil th e 3rd-4th July, where, with C..ap taJl1 R
C. de V. Ask in . he was successful \11 carry mg off ~he
cup for ili e H andi cap Doubl es presented by Col.
W. S. Macken zie.
5I
Thi s effort was imm ed iately foll owed. O l~ th e . I I
July, by Lieut. Holm3n bein g snccessfulln liftIn g

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Goli.
In cidentall y, oue fn ll app reciation of the successes. of these Offi ce rs r eached its peak wh en the
trophIes were mnde to be more than decorative'
a fter all , a cnp 01' a bowl are obviously dEsign eci
to t hmr pa rtI cular shapes for a purpose and it need
h ardl y be mentioned tJla t when thi purpose materi alIsed we Entered into tbe "spirit" of t he occasio n
with gus.to- it was an exceHent brand , a product
of the HIgh land s. P erh a ps 11, was jnst as well th at
<>n ly two trophies had to be celebra ted.
As. no doubt, th e detail s of thE-se events (the
spOlting parts ) will be fu ll y described elsewhere in
this iss ue. it hard ly comes within my pro vin Ce to
e nlarg~ upon them.
Cric ket ,-Our seaRo n's fixturf.s a re now practically
<:ompl eteci, th ere being on Iv on e more match to
plav. a nd tha.t is with a local team.
, ;Ve are quita sa.tis fied wi l,h th e resu lts of the
matches played th i year. th e r esul ts being 5 wins,
.
5 lost, and one draw.
Th e first mat ch o f tJl e sea~o n was wi th th e Depot
t
Th e E ssex R,eg .: one of these days we may reco rd
a win at thi s fixture , but the resul ts to da te have
bllt one headin g-Lost.. Thi s was played on 24 th
Mav, th e score hein g as follows:Th e Depot E "ex Reg l" 126 run s. R.A .P .C.
W arley ]04 I'uns.
(Serg t. Basham took 5
wickets for 37 runs. )
Our seco nd fixtUre \Va pl ayed at ' ''arley on 31st
May when we 6lltertained the R ecord a nd Pav
Office, Chat,ham . This game resu lted in a dmw with
the foll ow ing scores :Warley 152 for 5 (declared). Chatham 146 for 4.
Thl match was chi efl y not able fOl' the excell 611t
efforts of four batsmen. 'Lien! GotH!h 41 n;n a.nd
Mr. H on!) 66 for Warlev, wTlil st Pte Baker a nd
Mr. Bal<er made 56 and 68 respectiVEly f01' Chathnm .
On J4 tJl Jun e we enl,ertained the R.eco rd a nd
Pay Offi ce; INool wi ch . in wh ich match it is to be
fpal'ed t ha t we wEre ' sad ly outclassed.
Th e result was as fo]]ows:' ''arle:v 97 run s, v'iToolwi ch 109 fo r 4.
Om' opponents were fortun a t e in having such a
prolifi c scorel' as Corpl. McQuade who mad e 66 run s .
(S.Q.M.S. Horo ll took two Woolwi ch wickets for 17
run .)
On 28th J"n e we had our rturn match with th e
R ecord a nd Pay Offi ce, Chatbam at Chath am wh eee
we registere d our first win of th e ~eason . Th e 'following a re th e r esu lts :-Warl E- 90 runs Chatb am 64.
It is observed that Mr. B aker of th e Chatb:un
te,tm was again conspicuous in obtainjng 48 run s.
(Mr. Be:tr i;oo k 6 Chatha m wickets for 16 runs. )
On 9th July we journeyed to Wool wich to p'l ay
our return With tJl e R ecord and Pav Office. and
havin g in min d our p,'evious defEat: we were de:
termined more t.ha n ever to m a.ke a show_
R evenge is sweet! The tabl es were turn Ed on
ollr fri end s at Woo]wich, as we were . uccessful ill
obtai ning 151 runs to th eir 67.
Our ou ts tanding player was Li eut. Gou gll, who
obtai nE-d 59 runs. in cludin g seven fours and one
fi ve.
Our return match with t he Depot. Th e Essex
R egt. , was pbyed on 12'.h Jul y , with th e usual
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R.A .P.C. 99 I'un s, Th e Depot 130 fo r 4. " Ni l

desperand um."
vVe uSllally have a t lEast two fixtures wi th the
B rentwood Men t al H ospita l iu wh ich matches I'm
'lfrald I.he res ult s a re very simi lnr to tho e experienced WIth the D epot, Th e E ssex Reg t.
H owever , these matches a re very enjoyable and
a re always play ed 011 th e Hospita1 ground s. Th e
first fixtmfJ wa played on 25th Jul y with t he
followin g rps ult :R.A.P.C. 10 1, Mental H osnita l 244 for 8.
\~' e fonnel new opponents wh en we were ,,; sited
by th e R.E. Sports Clu b. Shoeburyn ess, on 26th
JuJ:v. Our fi rst fix' lire with thi s team "':1 marred
by t he weath er , th e first rain for a considerabJ e
tim e chose to descend the mom ent our 'b us arrived.
whi ch, in spite of many s;gns of clea ring. did not
p'erm lt th ~,I. ~~tocrat, the groundsma!' , to give t he
word t.a go. How ever. on exa nunatlOn of the
ca.lendal' it is not sU I'J)l'i sin 'l' that th ere wa 110
cri,' ket-" Friday . th e 13th Jul y" .
Th e mat.ch on t he 26th resulted in a win for us:' Nar ley 110 for 9 (decla red). Shoebul'y ness 98.
(Mr. Bear took 8 R.E . wi ckets for 36 runs.)
On th e 8th !\ ugnst we vis it ed Burton Court to
pIa,' thp. R ecord and Pav Offi ce. London. and ex per; en ced th e mo t extraordinary match of t,he
season.
W e went th ere to play <: I'icket. hut I'm afra id that
Sergt . Rmith and hi s ma tting wicht turned our
team into ru procession . ~ ergt. Smith i. to be co ngratu lated upon hi s I'em arkah le howling in th is
match. ill wh ich he too k 8 of our wi cke's fo r 7 runs
our t.atal score being onlv 16 I'tlns. nil ont, Londo~
wer e more successful in obta inin g 45 runs.
F rom the sco res it w;ll ho ~ee n tha t t he hO\\'lers
had a real -"field (l av" . Mr. Benl' and Sergt. Basham
took 5 for 13, and 4 for 19 r e peclively , a~ajo st
London.
We entP l'tain ed th e R eco rd antl P ay Oflice. Deptford . on 16th A ugust. for tl1f' first tim e. It is to he
hoped th ai, fn tm'e fi xtures will be arrnl1Q'ed with
thi ~ team. alh ough we were not ~o ho pibble as
we should have been owing to th e fact th at we WOII
t he mat<:h .
T he result was as follows:Deptford 86. Warl e 103 for 5.
Our ret,urn match with the R ecord and Pa y Office.
Lond on. was plaved on 23rd August with entirely
diffprent results from th e mal,ch of th e 8t.h instant.
T here was no matting wicket and th e Q'ra ss did
not appear to give t.he scope to t he London bowll's
in th e sa me wav.
Thi s mat.ch l:esnlted in a decided win for u , th e
resu lts bein g as follows :Warlev 115 fOl' 5 (d eclarE-d), London 29. (Sergt.
Ba horn 5 wickets for 13 runs) (Mr . Lenn:1ro
4 wicket s fOl' 9 run s. )
It is unfortunate t hat vidol'Y in both the matches
with L ondon h ave bf.en 0 "1'l1l1 away" for bot h
sid es , as a close game a lwa vs considerahlv adrlR to
the enj ovment and excitement of th e game. However. as we have both regi st ered wius i t is to be
h oped th at very close llaTl1es will result next season.
Whil e on the subiect of cri cket it will be opp'ortune to add that. th e enjo,vm ent 0.E th ese games
is com;iderably enh anced by th e welcome we receive
when visitin g other Offi ces, and \\-e wou ld lik e to
nwnt.ion t hn,t th eir efforts are gl'ea tly appreciated
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fello w co nsp'i L'a to l', he proceede d a t th e ru cia l t im e

t o do hi. s tuff. a nd he (ltd It we ll. '~ ha t a Gov!
T he ma l,'h was d raw n. '~I e m eet aga in sho rtl y 'so
I ha d beL ter ay no mo re a I, tlti s ju ncLure. I n any,
ca se we ho pe th a t t he gam e. in th e offin g will
as enjoyab le a ' th e last.
.
.
.
Uur lI e xt e vent was agaIn st Wad ey, In t heil"
own hom e to wn and we m a d e no mi s ta ke on Lh a t.
occas ion . Th ey ap parently, ho wev 1', Loo k .t hi s
ve ry mu ch to heart. for . th ey s h ortl y a fle l'lI' ard
callI l o \Voolwl ch a nd la Id It acr oss us In no un certain :lHLllll cr . \\. e ca nnot acco unt fOl' i t . hu t
Lh ~' sim ply got us whe re th ey wa nted u \ Both
ga mes were Lh orOll g h ly e n.lOved , a nd so were thE
aft e r eve nts (I n bO' h occasio ns .
N ext we vi sited Ald e rs hot. but sh ortl v a ft er OUIa rri va l ra in sta lt Ed a nd did not cease t ill .a ll pos
. ibili ty o f o utdoo r po r I wa' out o f th e q ue twn .
Ou r good fri end , howeve r , we re not. t ,o be deni ed
a nd ma d p us most wel"oru e by t h eir hosp it a lity.
"Vc hope t o ~ee th e m nex t. y ea r in '~T o ol w ic h for it
tri a l of treng th.
Houn slow then ca me to vVoolwi ch a nd had
heaLen to a fr a zzl e. Th ey r e turn ed to H onn slo w
ve ry bu cked , but our peopl e do n ot forge t bhEse
thil'l aS a nd on our r eturn m a t ch our sta lwa rLs wer!'
on tll ~ir t'oes all th e time an d m a de no mi t:l k p.
th e. r e- lilt evenin g thin gs up between us. H el'e
aga in we ha d g reat fun aft er th e m atches. nnd
look forw a rd t o m ore.
W e nex t proceed ed t,o Chath am for poin t... b ll t
th e ma tc h end ed in a dra w and we. a r e shortl y lookin" forw a rd to th e " decider " in W oolwi ch. Ou r
C I~ath a m fri end s we re ,' er y g ood to u and W(, had
a r a re tim e with th em.
Following Cbatham we WE nt to Ch;s wi ck to see
wha t sort of s tuff th e E as tern Comm a nd were ma de
of a nd th ey a ctu a ll y took adva ntage of a few
dropped catches by b eating u s by one run . ''':e a ~'e
onl y so rry that Cl l'cumsta ncEs prev l1 t, a l etnln
match .
Depart ures.-Dul'ing th " p'a~t qu a rt r th e follo wing ha ve left us for the t a tlOns n a m ~d :- L {Sgt.
A. T . Gow er t o C hath a m (Cos tlll g DutJ es) ; L {Sgt.
F. G. Wa.tson t o Southern Comm a nd. (Cost .-\ cctg.
Duties); Pte. A. D awson to W a r wlck ; S.Q::1I r. S.
P . W . Smith te York ; S .Q.M.S. W. G . WhIte 1.0
' ;Vari ey ; S .Q.M.S. E. G. York e to E astern Co mm a nd; S.Q.M .S. A . C. Jack to C .P.O . Ald ershot_:
L / Cp\. S . R Branch! to Canterbury. Cpl. G. N.
Palm er h as gone to Aldershot for a Co nrse a t th e
C.A. School.

Offices have g round s of th e ir owu but this should

not pre ve nt th em from ha vin g a fi xture wIth us IL1
th e future.
Departures.-It is with r eg ret th at w e report th e
d epa rture of Ma jor 1-1. A. D. Bockett -Pugh,
H..A .P. C., upon retirem ent . W e wIs h IIIIlI "good
lu ck " and hope that he \Viii be happy in hi s new
sph ere o f life.
HARMIL.

he

WOOLWICH.
t enni s acti viti es have bee n some what
re.stri cted bv th e 10 s of wo of our s tar m en ,
S .Q.?ll.Se Igt s. Miller a nd S hep'herd , who we nt t o
th e F a r E ast last trooper. H avIng n o a d equ a te re
sen es we lost a ll inter est in tJl e E astern Command
Champio ns hi p after th e fi r st. ro und, th e R ,A.S .C.
.
W oolw ich putting us out.
Se vera l inter-offi ce m a tches took place a g am st
Eastern Co mmand , Chatham , D e pt ford and Houns
lo w. a nd a lthou g h we lo -t om e, a nd won oth er s,
eac h a nd every on e pro du ced som e exce ll ent t enms
and ilfford ed opportumtl es for SOCial JIlte r c oUlS ~.
Durin g \]le progress of on e of th e l.n3;tc hes we dI scove red e leven R .A.P. C. st alw a rts SlttlOg round onb
t a bl e in the club house r eprese nting .3bD years'
se rvi ce. How's th,Lt for a r ecord ?
Althou g h we were sadly d ~p l e te d by th e d eparture
of th e a foresaid W.O. s, we wer e ena bfed to carry out
our p'ro a ramm es with th e assi.st a nce o f. Colon el
Ma cfi e. ~'fajors BUI'ges a nd S mIth , Ca ptalll s l\forI'ell a nd M a rd en.
--_-\nyho w, " H ere ' s t.o th e next time" .
In ci d enta ll y, Sergea nt Kui g ht IH~ s r eacned . th e
final o f th e Miller Ho spital Oup, whI ch compeb tlOn
is looked upon as a local. cha mpion hip .
If uccess ful he will be t he r eCIpi ent of a trophy
presenter! by Lady Ca ll endar.
M. R. Club.- Th el'e is nothin g Lo re port in COil
nection with th e clu b o win g to th e fa ct that we ha vc
onl," just e me rged from OUI ' period of r ecess.
Slloutill g; recommEn ced on 1s t Septem ber, and
tho. e o f us who have t est ed th eir s kiD in t hat
direction , a ppea l' to ha ve suffered little, if at all ,
fr om t he l ack of practi ce,
.
.
'V e a re loo kin g forw a rd to an .nter,~, tl.n g and
su ccess ful seaso n, durin g th e course of \\"hwh two
matches have been a rra nged with every I".m e dfi ce
known Lo us as indul ging in thi s class , f ~ I :ur t .
If th ere. is an v o ffi ce whi ch ha s no t been approa-::h p.d
w e shall be gl ad to fix dates if th ey will co m:nunicate .
Cricket.-Th e cricket sea on is now approa ching
it s ~ nd and we have to look hack on a serie ~ of
e vents ' '' hi ch ha ve g iven li S a great deal .of pl eas~u e
from th e sporting a nd also from th e SOCI a l POlOt c;>f
vi ew. It would be a bad thll11, for th e COt'ps. If
thi s in ter change of spOTting a nd SOCIal act lVlty
w ere to fade out for it provides an outlet from the
every d ay monot~ny and giv es a fresh impetus to
li~ .
.
.
' Ne s ta rted off lohe se.ason wi th a matc h aga ll1st
D e ptford , a nd did th ey provid e th e m a n for th e
occasion I
H e will forgi ve me .. because I know him ~ e~.
when I ~ a:v that, we.armg a brand ne w 1!mplre ~
Coalr-incidentally I heard one of the l adles refer
to him as resembli ng a " ' ;Va\l s Ice Cream' ~ -and
having borrowed , for th e occasion, a watch from a
T en nis. ~Our

u,

Arrivals.-We welcom e th e follo wing \\ ho have

ston
rece nt,l v join ed th e office :-Sergt. C. H.
from Egy pt : S.Q .M.S. A. D. D ' Alleng I' I:om
vVa r ley; B.O .M.S. L .W.F.G . Fi s her from W ann ck:
S.Q.M.S . E. Morten from E astern Command ;
S.Q.M.S . H. V. M. Woodman from York (R ).
Sapper J. K. Black, RE. , ha s joined t.he o~:
on proha tion for th e Corp ~ (10th Au g ust ).
21st
wish. him every su ccess 111 hI S n ew. work.
S.Q.M .S . F. A. Saunders wa s . d Isch a rged on a
Jun e. H e is now empl oy ed 111 th e offi ce 111
civilian capacity.
.
b' tl
W e con g ratulate Sergt. F. J . Rosling on t.h e 11' cl
of a son on 26th July , and S.Q.M.S. E. KnI ght an
Sg t. H. L. Hawkin s on the award of th e JLong
Servi ce and Good C(l ndu ct Medal.

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LONDON.
B evond t hree change' of s t a F th e re is li ' tl e to
repo;t th i" t Im e oth e r th a n th e rEsults of tJl e t ew
m a tches playe d b y our ri cket tea m Th e a,ITivals
to th IS offi ce inciu cle S.Q.M.S. Black ett, on proba tion
for "VV.O.I . ' ;Vc a ll con g r a tubte h im on hi s selection. and wi h him a s ll ccessful probati on. Priv ate
Robertsoll ha s arrived from C hat.ham (R. Si g nal )
:after h a ving compl et ed his proba ti on, and w e hope
hi s s t.ny here JlI ay be lon g a,nd pl easa nt. S .S.M.
P erkin s w as di ~chargE d on 4tll Jul y on a tta inin g
th e age limit, a nd w e ,vish him a ll th e bes t for hi s
1u l,ure.

In th e n ea r future we m et B a l'l1 et a nd ';I,'o kin ~

a gain , a nd a re looking forward to a happy te rm ina
tion of a s ~ a on , w hi c h. if not ye ry su cess ful from
th e pl aying point o f view, has been greaLl y enj oyed
by a ll concem ed.
A :W .L.
DEPTFORD.
Colon el C. W. Horton. D.S .O., has retired a fter
four yea rs' se r vice as Oolonel il c RA .. C. R ecord
a nd ha s been s ucceed ed by Colon el A . M. Wil son ,
D .S.O . . t,o wh om w e ex t end a heal'!.y welcome.
, gt, R ey nolds has joined us from Li chfi eld a nd has
se ttl ed dow n very h a.HPil y in dea l' old di rty D eptford. It is inte restin g 1.0 note th a t on j oi nin g th e
Corps on th e Rhin e on pro bation thi s N. C.O. took
over th e a ccounts of th e 2nd Bn. L eicest e rs hi re R eg iment, brought th ese a ccoun t home 011 t he Rhin e
evacu a tion and continu ed to look after th em until
his tran sfer to thi s offi ce. W e heave.d quite a sig h
of relief wh en w e l earn ed he hadn't brough t. th em
here !
Mr. J. R. Phi lli ps r ece iVEd OUl' con g ratul a ti ons on
his promotdon lo Grad e nI, and we f eel s ure that
a ll exD eptfordites now .enill g elsew here hearti ly
join u s.
M essrs. J . R Sy m e and J . D. Wl'i g ht ha Ye retirer! on r ea chin g th e a g e limit., a nd we ,vi h th em
happines. in th eir r etirem ent.
Mrs. S tevenson , on e of our Adrema op era to r - . is
leaving us to be m a rri ed , and we \\; s h her ever
bappin es for the future. .
,
...
Cri ck et has been our ma.tn pOl't lllg actIvI ty III
th e last few month s tho\lgh we a l 0 indul ged in
tenn is and hOIl Is . Th e cri cke t fi xtures proved t o
be very enjoyahl e outings . and th e office t urn ed Ol!t
not on ly a t eft m and offi cials but a most enthU Sia stIc
" "n,lI erv" of boUl sexe
Th e chara ban c nm s to
O"'te rl e.v (our hom e g round ) or to B a tn et. H o un slo.w ,
Chiswi ck a nd Chath:tm. t,he match. th e m eetI ng WIth
ol d fri end s o ver a cu p of. t ea and la te.r som et,h ing
mor(> r ef res hing. all co m bill ed to 1J1'o Vlde an Ideal
afternoon and to m a ke life in D eptfol'd wor t h whil e.
So fa r our fixtur e r ard sh ows that we ha ye won
seven aam es 10 t four a nd d ra " 'n two . our m ost
notal le'" oe l'fo l'lY' a nce hein/! t o heat ' Voolwi ch
Borough Cour,cil at Eltham b v a n inni n g ~ a nd 105
run s. Mr. Saver was a wa rd ed a bat by "Th e Sta r"
for his scor e of 136.
Th e offi ce outi n g to 0 terl ey and cri ket match
- mil it.a ry v. c;vilians-\\'as SOl1l ewhat mD,rrecl h~'
rain. Th e civ iliall $ won t,he m a tch d e~ o;t e trem ~ ndou , (,Horts hv t,heir opponent
a nd indoor
gams t erminated a happy lay.

Hom e a nd a way m a t ch es wp r e arran ged wi t h

n eighbourin g offi ces by our cri cke t t c.a,m , with tJle
foll owing res ults:"23rd May. v. Hounslow, at BUrton Court.
Houn slow 209 fo r 6 declared (Ca ptain J . H .
Clowes 68).
London 14.
'8th June. v , Hounslow , at Hounslow.
Londo n 47 (Serg t,. Pilk ingto'l 7 for 25).
Houn slow 178 (Mr. N ash 56).
"27th June . v. Deptford , at Burton Court.
D ?ptford 120 for 6 declared.
Lond on 75 for 7.
Thi. w as one o f th e few dav th is summ er on
whi ch an y rain f"n. Owing to num er ous delays,
the m a t ch cou ld not b e fini sh ed .
11th July. v. Woking , at Burton Court.
- Wok ing 50 (La nce S e ~ e;t. Smit.h 6 for 9) .
London 61 (Pte. Jon es 7 'for 31) .
'25th July. v . Deptford, at Burton Court.
D eptford 135 (Capt. J. G . Woods 52, r etir ~ d).
L ondon 74 (Mr. SaYH s 4 for 7).
11th Au g u~t . v. Warley, at Burton Court.
Warley 16.
London 45.
Th is m a t ch was mark ed bv som e extraordin a ry
howling by L / Sergt. Smith . ,vho in on e oy er, t ook
f oul' wi ck et s with successive ball s, and fini shed
with th e fo\lo,,;ng figures : 3.4 overs. 7 run s . 8 wi ck ets.
Warl ev , however , mad e a ma tch of it. 5 Lond on
wicket.s b eing down for 9 run s . A usefu l knock of
21 by Capt a in R C. de V. Askin , how ever , h elped
11S to pass W !1rley's total.
'23rd August . v. Warley, at Warley.
Wa,rley )15 for 5 d eclared .
Lond o'n 29 (Mr. L eonard 4 for 9 ; Ser gt. Bn sh a m
5 for 13).

Northern Ireland District

stat;on . H is I' l id, aptain B edford . a rrived from
Sali I m y on 16th Jul y , a nd we exLend t.o h Im a
hem'tv welcome.
By ' th e time thi s i~ s u e of th e " Jol1l'na l" is puhli shed iVfajor Bcoth wi ll have left for Ches t,H. DUI'i n q; th e short tim e that Maior and Mrs . ~ o oth ha ve
been lIith us th ey have shown a g reat IIlt erest m
oUr pe r<o'lal WElfare. and it is wi th r egret< th a t ''le
say goodhy e so soon. Th ey wi ll be mi s cl h.v t,he

Of th e impendin g ch anges a mon gst our Offi cer s

Teportecl in th e las t issue of th e " Journal" , on e h as,
so fat. hee n completed . Ca pta in Park left us on
25th Jun e for Woolwi ch . A5 t h e time a t hi s di s-posal wou ld not p ermit us to gi ve him th e usual
send off. we. con vey to him through th e m edi~m of
th e "Journal" om sin ce re th a nks for all he dId for
liS by hi s personal activi.ties in the soci a,l cl ub . ,Ne
hope he has settled down comfortably at hI S ne'w

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Ganiso n as a who le fo r th e va lu a bl e work t hey ha\'e

perform ed.

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THE

joumey was made by inl nnd road thl"O ugh Bally .

mena, wh ere we were ab le to cong regate and Expre:s
our sati s fa ction \\"ith t. hings in genera l.
Th e N .1.D. Tenni s Tournam ent was held recent lv.
Th is y ea r th e G. O.C. offered a prize for th e lIi nn el"
0-1" th e La di 2s 8in g les, which created tremendou s ;n .
t erest. \~re were a ll very pleased to hem' t hat Mrs.
Ni ce was success fu l in winning thi s comp etition, ancl
great credit is du e to h er.
.
W e heartil y co ngratu lat e Se rgt . Cha pHell on hav
ing obt,ain ed hjs Specia l cEl"tifi cat e, toge thm' wit.h
specia l mention 'by th e E xa min ers in t heir remarks.

S.Q. M . . Clad , and Sergt. N ice have bee n warn e:l

to hold th emselves in rea din es5 to proceed to
J a mai ca and Gibraltar res pective ly .
Th e committee of t he ocinl club are still carryin g
on th e good work. Th ey a)"l'a nged a very .delightful
outill g fo r us on the 2.8th Ju ly. Our' destIn a tIOn on
thi s occa ion ",as Ball ycastle. by th e coas t, l"Oa'(l
throu gh La m e, Gl en arm , Ca rnlough and Cushend all.
n d ist a nce of npproxim a t ely 66 mil es . The return

Northern Command
COMM,'\ND PAY OFFICE YORK .

Th e weath er. unf0rl una t ely, wa s not too kin d.

and in the end th e fin a l match ha d t o be a Land oned.
Th e vaga ri es of th e weath er WEre, however, soon
forgotten in th e excellence of th e tea, whi ch as
usua l th e commit.tee of l adi ~s prov id ed. After t.ea
the p'rizes were presented by Mrs. P ewsey and a
very enjoya ble a fternoon cam ~ t o a cl ose.

ArrivaIS.- A hemtv welcome is ex tend ed to Sgt.

A Cha ntl er , po ted to us from Cant erbury. a nd we
-hope t hat he a:ld his family will Enj oy t.heir stay
in Y ork.
Sport.- \;Ve t ake grent pl easure in ann oun cin g
th at th e R. A. P. C. York , with th e assistan ce of th e
R .E. (wit.h whom we com b in e for sport) have won
th e local Ga rri son Sma ll Units Cri cket Cup. The
competi t ion is run on " knock-out" lines. and \\'e
had a fa irlv easy passa ge to th.~ fin al. whi ch. despi te the cold, w et weath er, we won very eas: ly by
t en wi ckets .
General .-The N orth enl Command Tattoo t.ook
place in Jul y, t he venu e being a beautiful na.tural
site on Lord B a yen worth' s estate near Gateshead.
Thi s i th e first, tim e t.h e Tattoo has been heldi sd
rar nmth , and th e " Geordi es" rolled up in th eir
thousand s to see a grand show , many of th em
attendin g t wo and three tim es . Everywh ere one
went. it was vo t,ed a great success. D es p'ite in clement weath er' on three day s out of th e seven the
num be r " attenclin g onstitutEd a record . and we
haMrd a guess that, th e Ga t.eshea d and Newcastl e
loca l chariti es will he pl ea santly surpri sed a t their
share of th e profits.
CAWCAW .

This v ear 's t enni s season has hee n very succe sfu!. W e ha ve defeat ed th e Sergea nts' Mess t eams
of th e 1st Bn . Forest ers, 2nd Bn. Th e Klllg 'S Own
Roval R egt,. a nd Departmentals on each occas ion .
W e suffer ed defea t, by th e Combin ed D epots North
a.nd South Sta fford shire R egim ents , but h ope to
get our revenge shortl y .
Cri cket we have a ba ndon ed thi s year , not, on
account of th e leg th eory controversy but. owin g to
la ck of players.
Since th e la.t notes from thi s offi ce were published we hav e had several change o f staff. Sergt.
W. D . Low left us in April for Salisbury and Sergt.
H . W . R~y nolds-our hard workin g Sports Clu h
Secret ary-was post,ed to D eptford at t~ e end of
July. Ar riv als a re Privates Trok e a nd H Ig,.on from
Wokilll:! arlu York resp ectively . who we hopc Vil li
enjo'y tlwi'r stay a.t Li ch-fild.
Th e office outing this year was to Soutb po rt, th e
joul'l1 ey bein g made I y train . Aft.er lunch the
members di spersed , the ma.]ol"lty m(etlll g aga m a ~
th e Li verpool Empire at .lllght. A. very hot da'
which would have b een lmproved If th e sea had
b een more in evidence at South port.

LICHFIELD .
Th e most im portant event thi s season has been
th e openjn g of our n ew hat'd t enni s court. Th is
t enni s court, probahly on e of. t he fin es t in th e
country . has bEen constru cted in th e offi ce ground s
and is t he en vy a nd a dmira tion of the local garrison.
As a det achm ent we conslder ourse lve~ verv fortun ate to possess su ch a splendid acqu isitioll and
we are most grateful to t.h e Nort.h ern Comm a nd
Sports Boa rd who have defray ed th e whole cost of
co n tru ction 'alld equipm ent. Our t hanks are al so
du e to Colon el W. H. GriLl on, C. M.G. , C. B.E. ,
who has don e 0 much on our beba lf.
Tb e co urt \\"a s form a lly open ed by Major H . C.
P ewsey (in th e a bsence of Colon el Gribbon) Ol!
Aug u t 22nd amid scenes of great. enthu siasm.
Mem bers 01 th e gan;son a nd th e Detac hm ent were
pre ent and a fterw ards took pa rt in a tourn am ent.
Major P ew ey in th e cou rse of hi s speech said that
the new court would not only provide wond erful
facilities for recreation but would also furth er promot e and extend tha t feeling of good fell owship
among th e staff whi ch was such a happy feature of
th e Li chfield Office.

A very enjoyable day was sHent, a.t Shrewsbury

on 28t.h Ju ly on th e occas Ion of th e annual m ~e t
ing of th e hrewsbury and Lichfi eld offi ces. Leavlllg
Li chfi eld at 10.30 a.m . by cha,ra han c a top was
mad e at Forest Gl en, Th'e \ ;Vrekin . wh ere n. firs ~
cla ss lun ch was mu ch appreciated. Slll'e wsbu ~'y \\,1\
proba bly in clude a det aIl ed account of t he l ~s t 0_
th e day und er theIr notes. We suffered seVE l e de
feats at t enni s and bow ls, but pl ay in g on our oW
pitch we hope to rever se th ese in .the fu t.ure . and
would lik e to record our apprecllt tlon of t he goo
tim e given us by Shrewsbury . The vocal effor\s
of th e p arty on th e r eturn journey were mu c I
appreciated!
W e are glad to report that Sergeant, H. Wilson .
who was admitted to hospital in D ece mber last , IS
/lOW ma king good progress ane! we hope \ViII soon
be completely recovered.

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REGIMENTAL PAY OF F ICE , YORK .

Depar t ures.-Major E.T. C. Smith t o Wo olwi ch. :
Major G. H . White on leave pendin g retirement ;
S.Q.M. '. W ood man to W oolwi ch ; Pt. B. Ri gson
to Lich fi eld , 23/ 8/ 34 .
Arrivals.-Captain H . H. Morrell frolll Woolwi ch ;
S.Q .M .S. P . W . Smi t h f!"Om Woolwi ch , Pte. W .
Wi lsoll, Boyal Tanli Corps. join ed 17 / 7/ 34: Ple. W.
Morgan I ~tul"n e d from t empora ry dut.y at Li chfi eld .
Promot .ons.-S.Q.M.S. W. E verett prom ot'ed
W .O. CIa s 1 from 3/ 1/ 34.
Long Service and G.C. Med a ls.- S ..'3 .M. E.
McCart hv ("Witholl t Gratuity) ; S.Q.M.S. H . V. W.
Woodm a n (With G rat.uity) .
DUl'in g t he p receding qu a rt,er we have had a
p' lcasant littl e gam e of " pu t a nd take" with t he
Woolwi ch o ffi ce. At pre05ell t th e core is level (put
two-take two) but. it is sli ghtlv in th e favou r of
Woolwi ch as S.Q.M.S. Woodm an 'left us ve ry shortl y
after he h ad heen awa raed th e " Rooty" med al t ak ing hi g ratuity with him . 1 don ' t kn ow if h~ ha s
pushed th E> boa t out. sin ce he has arrived at Woolwieh or not" bu t I und erstand he left hi s confreres
feeli ng Yery low and dry .
Simila rly, S.S.M. E verett proceeded on lea ve soon
afte!' th e notifi cation of his promotion ca m e through .
Such is st rat egy .
W e were yer.\' sorry to lose Major Smith who has
proceeded t.o \;Voolwi ch. and we wish him th e bes t
of luck at hi s n ew station .
Anoth er old fri end , Major G. H. Whi te, has also
left us. H e h as gone into th e wild s of Som erset to
raise poultrv. Fo r some tim e past he has been
studyin g th e ins and outs of th e breakfast egg,
and it is w hi pered th at a n ew st.vle of breakfast
Bll;g compl et e with zipp fast ener will be seen upon
th e t ahl e ere lon g.
S.S.M . McCa rthy has been a ward ed th e L .S . and
G.C. Medal. H e is a.t a loss to und ergtand why
th e gratllit,y was not att.ached . No douht he will
fe! a litt le happi er wh en th e In com e Ta x is redu ced
next y en r. .
We welcom e Captain Morrell to th e st ation and
hope h e will have a, haHPY tim e in old E bor. .Wi~h
his ad vE'nt we n ow have t wo of th e sli ckest ca rs m
the ganison on strength . P erhaps Capta in Ri chard son and Captain MOlTen will lin e up on e day anel
show u how it shollld be don e at Brooklands.
The Ta nk Corp s continu es to supply us with pro"
bation ers. J im a gin e th at th e Field Cashi er is goin g
to have a co mfort."lhle little offi ce to work in durin g
th e next big push . P erh aps. on th e oth er h and ,
th e F .C. will h ave to go in searcll of th e L. s. d.
and tlla t is why we are rE'cruiting from t.h e Ta nk s.
Now Mi ster Bates wh a t about a little ill ustration .
Cricket IIIotes.-Our cri cket team thi s ya r has
been composed of player s from t.he R.A .P .C. detachm ents (C.P. and R.P.) and th e R.E. detachment, and although we ha ve not, the same numb er of
victori e~ t o our credit as last Veal' we ha ve again
had a very successfu l and enjoya ble season. W e
haye pl ayed fifteen matches. a.part from cup' competition mat chee. of wh ich nine have bee n won and
six lost . whi lst still two gam es remain to be p layed
to com plete the season ' s fixtures.
In l>il E' Mv ers BUl:nell Cup CompEtition we were
beaten hv 30 runs in th e first round by' Sou th
Ba nk W .M. C., but as th e mat ch wag pl ayed very
early in th e sea son our tea m was in an expuiment.al sta.ge. We ce rtain ly found a stl'onger team
as th e seas on progless( d .

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Ho wever , we have a di ffere nt t ale to tell concern ing t he. competition for . the Small Units' Ct;ck'l!-t
Cup , whI ch ha s Ju st been If'augul"at ed among milita ry
t eam.s In t he sta tr on , and . whl ch we are proud to
say lS now III our pos e5S 1011. our com bin ed team
havin g earn ed th e di stin ction of bein g th e first
WlOners of th e t rophy. Credit is du e to all the
pl ayers conce m ed . th e fi elding of the t eam b eing
unus ua lly go od, I ut s p ~ eial referer. ce is mad e to
the spl endid bowling of Sgt. H erbert, to th e sound
ba tting of Sg t. Brooke, and to th e all round efficIen cy of our most mod e t pl ayer-Cpl. Briggs.
. Th e res ult of t he ma tches pl ayed in the competi tlOn on t he kn ock out, ba is (24 overs each) i give!"!
below.
1st Round.
R.E. a nd R. A .P. C. (Sg t . B rooke 46: Cpl.
Briggs 22) 98 for 7. H.Q . Rq. 3rd Hu ssa r~
(Sg t . H erb ert 5 for 15 ; Cpl. Briggs 3 for
9) 41.
2nd Round .
R.E . a nd R.A .P .C. (Sgt. Rrooke 30 : Gp I.
Briggs 26) 108 for 6. " A " Co. 2nd orth umberl a nd Fu s. (Sgt. H el"b ert 5 fOI' 13:
Cpl. B riggs 5 for 12 ) 29.
Semifina l.
R.E. and B .A .P.C . (Cpl. Briggs 28) 85. No . 8
Co. R.A.MC. (Sgt . H er bert 5 for 25) SO.
Final.
R.E . and RA..P .C. (Sgt . B rooke, not ou t" 20:
Cpl. Briggs. not. out 25) .49. " C" Co. 2nd
Korthumherland Fu. (Sgt . H erbert 4 for
21; C pl. Briggs 5 ror 15) 45.
Office Outing.-It was decided th at the office outing this y ear should be a circul a r tour of 140 mil es
by motor, including a Ill rge portion of the Yorkshire vVolds and such wellknown sea ide resorts
as F lamboro' H ead . BrirIJ ington , Fil ey and Sca rborou gh.
Leavin g York at. 8.30 a .m . in a full 3Z. seate~
coach, we soon reached Stamforrl Bridge, t he sce ne
of th e hard-fought ba ttl e of t he year 1066 A.D.
between the armi es of H a rald Hardi'aadar, th e orwegian kin g, and H a rold , t he Engli sh king, in
whi ch hattle th e English \\"ere vi ctoriou s.
Stamlol'd Bridge village is small , peace ful and
entirelv rural. It was som ewl' at hard to rea lise
tha t cio ge by thi s scen e of simpl e heauty. on the
ba nk s of th e Derwent,. a warriol' of Roval line and
many bra ve men had fallen in hattle.
Vv"ith a pas ing thought, for those old en da ys. we
rap'idly journeyed to G aJ"l"owby Hi ll. 11 stiff climb
for any vehi cle and on e whi ch TlI"oved too mu ch for
th e bus, fOI" (I qu a lt er of a mil ~ f!"Om th e top we
had to get, out and walk, th e engin e refus ing to
t a ke us nnv furt.h er.
This sli ght diversion pro ved a pleasant res pite to
t he long iournev before us, and it wa s not unti l we
reached Sl edm ei'e th a t we again had th e opportuui ty
of stret chillg our limbs.
Sled'ml'e Park. famOtiS for its Italian- tvl e mansion and racing stables ad joining, established by
Sir Tatton Sykes in the lat te r h alf of th e 18th
century, came in fm' a gl"eat deal of admiratjoll .
This praise indeed was not untim Elv ; th e cool qui et
of th e trees, t lie stu cco-fronted ma nsion with its
adj acent chur,:h a nd well kept gard ens. pro vided a
gl'ea t. sense of ease and se renity \\"hen compared with
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We slJent consid erable time in t he park and

-church , and also inspected a quaint Boer vVa r
memorial outside the grounds. Th e memorlUl showed
various scenes-men \\'o rking in the fie ld s; joining
the forces; boarding th~ sh ip ; fi ghtin g in bat.tle a nd
th eir vi ctoriou s retnrn later.
,\ 5 we left Sledm ere th e sight of the rac ing stabl es
gave ri se to a few arguments amonsst t,he ra c11lg
sectio n of the pa rty as to th e mer1ts o( vanOl1S
horses and tra in ers.
We reached Fl ambe ro ' H ead about noon and were
immedi atel.v )mpressed by the majestic cliffs and
innumenble (;u lls th at wlleeled a nd sported 111 the
sunlight.
.
..
Owina to lack of t1m E we could not VJS1t th e
famou s "'siTluggler ' caves hercabouts or th e eq ually
weJl known li ghthouse.
.
AJt eJ' a quarter of an hoUl' we set out for Bndlin gtou where \Ve had a:'l o:cell ent, lun ch at the
Britm11l:a Hotel.
W e were here ioined by L t-Col. A. A . Cockblll'll
an d Ca ptain F. R. Ri cha rd son, who had co me by
car.
A few s taved after lun ch for a ga me or billiard s.
but we ' mostly dispersed into sma ll parties for a.
ramble throug), th e town .
Although the sun was hot a nd th e town crowd ed
with vis:'tors, very few ba th ers wer e to be seen.
This wa.s in ' some wa.ys s urpri sing- th e hEacl~ .at
Bridlin gton hping Hoted for its bathlng fa c' htl es
and lon rr . sandv sh:,re.
At 2.30 p.m. we Ipft for Filev: a small town . of
some 4,000 inh abit a nts nesthn g on the low cliff
of Fil ev B~v .On th e lo,",.el' SlOpES of Filey Town. near th e sea .
are many we ll -kept public gal'Clens a nd l a.w n5.
These Ruggested ample mea ns o( cosv rest on th e
plea sant turf. of whi ch we later availed, oorselves.
To the north of Ji'1 1ey Bay r11ns nearly a th oo anrl
yard s of sharp rocks named Fi l ~y Bri g . Som e I)f
th e l)a.r ty ventored the rough g0111g. over. the screE'S
a t the (001, of the cliffs to reach t lm BrIg, but on
an;val th e ru gged scene and v iew of th e lashing
wa ves we ll rewa rder! th e11' efforts.
The sea-wo rn rocks. deEp mysl,erious looking pools
left by the receding tid e, and th e pl ea ant murmor
of the waves provided a pl easin g c.ha!,ge t o th e
somewh a t mon otonous sa nrls of Bndhngton an d
southern half of Fil ey Bav
A few took a two hoUl"s' trip bv mo~or hoat to
bay lyin g to the nortJ, of the Brig a.nd E!njoyed
the eVEnt immenselv. Others 111spect ed th e church,
where Canon Cooper, known as the " walkin;;r
p'1.rson" hecause of h is rambl es in all countnes of
the wor\J preaches his sermons.
W e Idt: Filey at 5 p.m. in ti me to r each Sca rborough for t pa . which was hi ghly welcomed and
t.horough ly enjoyed by f1.11.
We h?d three hours in whi ch to enjoy ourselves
in this gay towo where a.mosemEnts for eveyy taste
ex ist. l~ cco rdingly. afLer t ea, we set out In small
groups to "isit, as many places as possl~l e .
The ruins of th e Norma,n cast le. set h1gh on the
Scaur peninsula which divides Scarboro!lgh into
two 'bays-the Jorth and South-received. th eir
share of appreciation from a small sectlOn of t,he
pal'ty. Th e fi ne old l ~'h cent~ll"Y chu~ch of St.
Mal'y also ca me in for some pralse, but It must he
confessed that a more modern bui ldi ng, the Drill
Ha ll of the 5th Bn. Green Howard s (T.A.) was
more strongly favour ed hy th e fortunate few who
managed to find it.

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Th e Ro yal A lbe rt and Ma1;n e dri\" es . ronnd the

ha e of the penin sula , were visited , too , t he return
jou111ey from North Bay bemg mad e by loca l moto()r
bus.
A _ma ll circus once used to ex ist near th e Corn er
Cafe in Nod ,h Ba y but thi has now been removed to
make wav for a bampin g-cf1.l' outfit, on water, si milar to tho e u 'ccl in circuse. on land.
lIlt,houg h the pa.rty became greatly scattered in
th e COlll'se of the evening . we all m ~ na ged to board
th e bus by 9.30 p.m. -a ftel' a few hurried refres hments-and set, off on th e 42-mil e jourl16y to York.
Excep.t for [\ view of the glowing sun as it saill k
behind it rid ge of low hills on our ri ght. our sightsee ing fol' the day was ended.
But nevuth eless . a confused sin g.song of very
old fashion ed cings was held by most of us. to
relieve th e jou1"11ey . A cert ain member di tinguish ell
him seH during th e s in gin g by a evue attack of
hi ccups. whi ch was a.pparently due to the stl"O ng
sea a ir and jolting of the bus .
We h ad one call. the H am and Cheese Inn.
ScaggletJlOrpe, on th e. hom eward ro~rl , where we
pa.rtook of furLh er l11 uch-needed refreshm ents.
After thi s respit.e we settl ed do wn to co mparative
qui et and at ~1.15 p.m. we reach ed York. r~,ther
tired bu t. feel111 g tJ, at th e day had been enjoyed
by e~'er~'one, and that the Club Social Committee
were to be congratulated on armngl11g an excell ent.
we ll -pl ann ed annual outing .

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Tennis Notes.-A Garrison Tournament, open to

other rank s 1ll th e Ga.rnson, was held on the t enni s
courts on 2nd , 3rJ a nd 4th of July. Th e detachment was successfully represented by Sgts. Brook c
an,] Paohl ey. Sgt. Brooke was the runner-up in
the sing les, a nd Sg t. Pashley p'a rtner ed by gt.
Dl'ummoncl (C.P.O. ). runll Er s-up in th e doub les.
Oth er memb er, to ent er were L /Sgt. FrelJ ch and
Cp\. Briggs.
J n the Comm and elimin ating competition for th e
" Rhi ne Army" Cup, Sgt. Brooke was again th e
victor an d we hope he ,vi]) be victorious at Ald ershot a.s we reqUIre another cup to go with. t,h e
S llta lJ,
nits' Cl'icket Cup, and it i really up to
th e l c11111 s SectlOll to com plet e the pail'.
Winter Entertainments.-Our energet ic Social

Garrison Tennis Tournament, York.

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Sgt. 'Pash ley, Sgt. Brooke,

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Committee has arranged a full programme of events

for th e forth comins winter, the special le.atme
be111g th e whi5t dnve and dance at the Albruny
Hall, to be held on November 2nd as a farewell
g e~ tul'e . to Co lonel C. F. Kenn edy, our retirin g
U ffi cer 111 charge of Records.
Other items on the pl'ogramm~ a re whist drives
at the Albany Hall on th e first Tuesday o f eac h
month, and monthly sames tourn aments against
val'ious clubs in t he CIty .
Outing to Scarborough.-Th e Social Committee
ha ve anoth er s urpri a well in ha.nd, an ofllce ouLin g
to ScarbOl"Ough on Septembe r 8th , wb en most members of the ofllce a re taking the opportull ity of
SE.e lOg tb e \ u ' t.a bans against lIlr. Le" esol1 Cower's

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Scottish Command
COMMAND P }~Y OFFICE EDINBURGH .
No cas ua lt;es h a ve taken place sin ce we sent OUl'
last, cO.11tl;bution to t he " Journ al".

Ma jor Eth erington , lik e th e " lit.tle man" in the

song, had " a busy day " on Finals Day wit h two
early Semi-fin<Lls follo wed by three F inals. He was
beaten in the Open Singles Fina l by Captain TumeJ',
R.E., who (pa l'tn erecl by an ex perienced Tournam ~nt pl ayer in Mrs. Hindl eston e) al. 0 won tJ, e
J\>Il),ed Doubles against Maj or a nd Mrs. Eth el;ngton.
Sergt. McCla ff erty from Leith w~s Runn er-up
(with ~e rgt . Pleant, RA. ) in th e OtJ1el' Rank s
Dou bles, losing tne 1"inal t.o a stead ' K.O.S.B. pair
8 /10, 1/ 6.
Military Pageant,-An important military event
wa held during the Sllmm er wi th the staging at
Edinblll'gh of th e cotti sh MiJjtar - P a.geant. Four
perJOl'm'bllces we re gi,Ten, and althou gh th e weather
was anything bo t fa vourable./ each wa.s a ttend ed by
a large and enthusi as ti c a uoi ence.
Member s of both Pay Offi CES .in Edinbmgh were
res ponsihl e for a ll box office a'Ta,nge ment , and
a ltho ugh thi work was mainly beh ind th e scene~
it was gratifying to leam th at, it was so greatly
appreciated by die orga.nisers vf IJ1 e Pageant.

RiHe Shooting.-Th e club opens its season on 21st

September <tnd wiiJ a.gain be und Er th e lea der ship
of Ca.ptal11 F. W. C. Thomas whose ad:vice and
coaching did much to improve th e t andard of shooti ng last sea on.
A lengt,hy programme of postal matches has been
arranged. and if we can strike our real form ea rly,
th e res ult s hould be 0111e close fights with OUr
oppo nents.
Hange acco mmoda,l.ion has been c hHn g~ d to a mo,'J
central pomt, and we hope thi s will in crEH e t.he
number of members attending weekly. Our co mpetition ex pert (S.Q.M.S. Stenni ng) has p1'omi serl
some interes ting competitions and th ese shou ld help
to en ure an en joyab le season.

Cricket.-Our hopes of a uccessful seaso n have

not materi alised. The two offices combin ed ha ve
beelJ ull~ble to get togeth er a n ent,ire Corps tea m,
so tha.t 111 all th e matches played we have had t.o
seek help from other branches.
During th e season we pl ayed six mat.ches. o f
whi ch we won one and drew anotJ]f,r, wh il e in the
remainder we were unfortunate enou gh to lose by
a ve ry small ma rgin of runs on eac h occa ion. r;,
the last match, whjeh was lost by on ly 13 run s,
Lt.-Colone l H erhcrt gave a good di sp lay by securing 7 wickets for 32 , whi le Sergt. Gi lbert knocked
up 36 runs .

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PERTH.
One cou ld more aptly desc rib e thi s period of th e
yeal' as th e " R estle s Season " -the weather (on
kind ly occasions!) enters into a conspiracy wit.h
eV ' ry penny "Daily" to create unres t in the hea rts
of those cond emn ed to an offi ce stool. A beautiful
summer morn ing brings to the office-bound cl erk a
long in g t.o sp ~ nd the day amidst svl van sUl'l'ollnd.in as, or besid e th e shining SEa, which lon ging is
only enhnn ced wh ell the daily paper r eveals pi ctures
of ~m ili ng bf1.thing bea.uti es disporting in t,he briny.
Th en. of course, the lon g look ed for list of "fortun a tes" for for eig n service . arrivin g in J~ne, t ends
to in crease t.h e restl e. snegs of the nam ed and un
nam ed.
However. by the end of eptember, summ er lca \" e
is ;It an end. and encroaching wint r brings one to an
a pp reciation of an evening nt the fi,'e. id e. nnd the
l'cs tl css summ er fee li ng' fad cs with th e sun's
strength , and nno t hc1' winter season comm ences,
offeri ng to th e fo oter fan s amp le compensation in
th rpnewa l of host.iliti cs hv th ~ local footbnlI lub.
P erth has heen bad ly sti'ln g th is summer by th e
" R estJess Bee", res nlt ing in a coupJ e of wedd.in gs.
and an anticipated d parture for Singapore, two
members of th e Detachment having so lved their

Tennis ,-'l'h e ScoW h Command Tenni s Cha.m pionsh ips were held at Lib erton , Edinburgh , in
August , and though only four of the RA.P.C . in
Scotland competed tli ey managed to "scroun ge"
half-a-dozen "wee cups " between Lhem (chi efly
owing to th e gen erosity of the "Command" in providing " witabl ' mementoE.S" for runn er s- up!) . Th e
prime object , however, was a ttain er!, viz. , th e
winning of the In ter-Unit Doublc5, and we CO ll g l'atul rLte our (' .P . . Colon el Li ghLfoot, and Mnjoi'
Eth erin gt.oll on pu llin g off thi s ve nt. Th ey beat
th e n ,o.V;] I S.. ots I' usili ers' rep reM nU~tive~ in the
Final 6/ 4, 6/3 . Thi s yict.ol'Y was all the 111 01'e
m('ritorioll s as th e Colonel had , it is und er stood.
only played tenni s once before this sea. on (h e pre
fers a bat or rod in hi s hand!) and hald n avel'
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l'Est lessness bv a plunge int,o th e unce rta in wa t e r '

of t.h e Ma tririJonial Sea , whil st S.Q .M .S. Doh erty
found relie f in th e list for se rvi ce a hroad .
Th e re maind er of th e D etachm ent . in additi on to
forgett,in g office routin e for a hli ss ful week or tll'O
of indiyidual a nnu a l leave, m ade a con ce ntrated
effort, to work off th e res tl e s fee lill g by co mbillin g
for a da~"s bu s excursio n to Montrose on 7th July.
Frum all accounts Ml'. Barrel succEeded in drown i ng the lesser troubles of I,he mal e excursioni st s, allCl
th e ladi es (b less 'em) never ha ve troubl s, so th ey
enjoyed the da y a ny way ~
\Ne ;t re g lad to I'e port, a wond erful recovHY to
co n v a l e~ce n ce of Ma ior H epbu l'l1 's wife, after a
rath e r seriou s ope ration , a nd tl'nst bv th e tim e th e
a utumn number is circ ul a t ed. t h;tt Mrs. H epbul'l1
will he full~' res tored to healt h . an d th at h r l' presence
will "help along " our fir st whi t dri ve a nd da nce of
th e wint e r season .
T o refer bri efly to ma tte rs sportin g :-Corporal
L ead er 's c ri cketin g a hility has soon been put to good
ll se hy th e Depot .. Th e Black W atch , who includ e
him in th eir team for nI l fixtureg.
L ast year, with excusa ble p'ri le, we reported a
vi ctory by th e Offi ce Go lf Club OV Er a t eam from th e
Depot, B1 nck \ 'Vatch- in Jun e a second vi cto ry wa s

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gain ed against th e Depot, th e offi ce go lfer retll rning with a r e~ ult of 5--3. Thi s pa rti cul ar sectIOn
has. been running a month ly "ball " com peti t.ion.
whI ch hn s l'msed a ce rlalO a mou nt of enthu sia sm.
Th e t e nni s co urt still provid es a n outlet for eycnin g ~ n e rgi es, so long a s th e weath !' clerk a ll o'.l's
th e court to rem ain playable. R ecent repairs to t he
wil'e- nettin g now ensure th e ball s being easi ly found .
o bv ia ting ha lf-an-hour's search for " tru a nts" in the
lush g rass a n,1 und ergrowth s urroundin g th e court.
L ack of opportunity a lone has c urbed our Moun ta in eerin g thi s year , but th e desire for t.hi s excitin g
a nd hea lt h y ph ase of ScottIsh Sport bas not di ed.
a nd .Majo r a nd Mrs. P ewsey, who ori gina ll y brought
ou r Mountain eering Section into bein g, ,1l'e ass urerl
of findin z a willing ba nd of clim bers bo t,h expel; enced a nd eml>r.Yo, from th e P erth Detach ment"
wh enEver th ey choose t o co me N orth to conqu er
fres h heig hts.
Ca ptain Hill perfo rm ed a sltd se rvi ce on benln lf
of th e Corps gene rall y, a nd for th e la te S. Q.M ..
Whit e' s num e rous fri End s partjcula rl y, when he
ntte nd ed th e fun er lll nt Aberd een on 11th Jul y. OU1'
Cha th am fri end s wi ll be pleased to note th a t ;1' Co rps
reprEse nt a tIve was present, to pav a la st toke n of
res pect to th eir co ll eague.
" McSPORRA N ".

Southern Command
COMMAND PAY OFFICE , SALISBURY,
Tidworth Tattoo,-The R .A .P. C. st ation ed in a nd
al'olllld Sali sb ury were again e mployed in th e box
offi ce, This year 's di splay was WEll up to t he high
standard of previous years. but owin g to th e
threate ning weath er earli er in th e days a ll chan ce
of a new attend a nce record was ki ll ed. a nd in fact
th e a t t pndan cc was below th a t of last year, but,
better than in 1932. Anyhow , we expect our usua l
g mnt from _the profits .
Outing,-The Sta ff again pa rti cipated in th e
Annu al Outing orga ni sed by Headq uarters, South e rn
Command. Weymouth was th e place select ed, and
a most enj oyabl e day was spent,
A novel att raction was a machin e run by
" Johnni e Walker" whi ch indi cated ball b y ball th e
progress of t.he T est Ma tch whi ch was being played
at Lords, and as we ha rlPened to be a t W ey moutl1
on th e Monday, and Engl a nd was success fu l, a ll enjoyed the new experien ce.
Congratulations,-To S .Q.M.S . H. J . Hillary on
promotion to W a nant Office r, Class rI, 27th July ,
1934, a nd to Sergt. Morley on th e birth of a
daughter on 17th June (Diann e Margaret).
Cricket,-We a re carrying out OUl' fixtures as
arranged under clifficu lti es. owing to th e loss of a
number of p layers, and will be furth e r deplet ed thi s
trooping season wh en we lose S.Q,M.S. Hopkms to
Hong Kong, S.Q.M .S. Rowland s to Singapore, a nd
S .Q.M .S . Tozer t o B e rmuda . W e a re hoping that
th eir r eli efs will be interest ed iTJ c ri cket .
W e were very pl eased to meet th e D et achm "ut
a t Woking again after a lap se of seve ral ytears .
Batting first, we managed to compile 133 run s,
th e pr incipl e scorers be in g Ca ptain Treglo:wn and
S.Q.M .S . Hopkins, who mad e 43 a nd 40 res pectively .
'Woking repli ed with 142 run s for 9 wi ckets, OUI'
total being passed with the la st, pair at t he wi cket ;
Sergt, Eudacott 52 i nd S.Q.M.S. Parr 30, were the
highest scorers,

Our th a nks are due to W a king for t heir hospit ali ty

to t he large pa r t y whi ch in clud ed fa mili es from
Sa li s bury a nd distri ct , a nd we hope t hat t hi s fi xtm e
will now becom e a n annu al even t. I'Ve, a re look in g
forward to seein g t he Woking D eta chm en t with th eir
famil iES in Salis bury l1 ex t year.
I have not describ ed our shoot,in g d ispl ay, a, no
dou bt an acco unt wil.l b e given in Wokin g notes.
\Ve a r r. v e r~' sorry Hil sea was unabl e to accept,
out' in vita tion to visit Sali s bury c win g t o th eir bein g
una bl e to mi se a t eam ; we hope for better lu ck
next season.
Staff,-Ma jul' F . A . Woods , our Ass ista nt Comma nd P ay mas'ter (Pa y Ser vices ) , has receiv ed ord ers
to emha rk for servi ce in E gypt on 6t h Se ptembH
in H .T . " N eurali a" . W e wi sh him a nd also Ml's.
Wood s t he best of hea lth a nd a n enj oyable touQ in
t he la nd of th e Ph a raoh s.
Colonel Bli ss re linquis hes th e duties of Com man d
C<ts hi el' on 29th A ug ust on reachin g th e age lim it.
Hi s successor is Major H . A . D. Bocket t- Pu gh . .
Ca pta in L. G . D aish has joined a t Sali s bury In
pl ace of Captain J . A . Bedford to Nort hern Ireland
District ,
Oth er Staff cha nges a r e referred to und er cri cket
notes.
Tennis-- Rhine Arm.y Cups,-The Comm a nd compp.t,ition to decide the l'ep'resenta t!ve to go t,o Aldershot was run on mu ch th e same lIn es as l as t year.
Th ere we re eig h t entri es from Sali sbury a nd a
ve ry enj oyable afternoon' s tenni s was held on Jun e
28th to decid e th e t wo fo r th e Comm a nd fin al.
Th e Comm and Fin al wa~ pl ay ed on H a rper Road
Cour t, Sali s bu ry, o n Jul y 5f,h, when 8 represen tn tiv es from th e various offi ces in t he Comm a nd gave
o f t heil' bes t. a nd som e strenu ous ga mes r Es ul ted.
Ser gt . Han son was th e ,.nnn er from Serg t. Boa nas.
T wo silver cups wer e provid ed by the Offi cers of
th e De tachm ent, Salisbury. to th e Comm a nd
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by t he " Hi llary T will" " a t th e conclus ion of th e'

final gam e,
Th a nk s a re du e to ~I es dam es Hil la r y, H olt lw d
,lam es wh o pro yidecl th e refres hm e nt s .
MO ONRAKER
HILSEA .
Th ere lire so ma ny outsid e a ttraction s, seas id e,
co untry a nd city, th a t we se ld om ge t t oge th e r.
Espec ially as th e Costin g personnel are ra th er
se parated.
How eve r, in Jun e a pa rt,y from th e Pay Office
went to Ascot R aces, a nd in spite of incl emEnt
weHt he r had a pl easant if not pl'O fitah le day.
Tennis ,-We sha ll mi ss M ajor F. B ain es ve ry
mu ch when he goes abroad. Capt. C. D. Vint has
already paid a fri Endl y visit.
S. M. L a mbert
pl ays a use ful ga me, whil e S /Sgt . Ay lin and Sg t .
Boana s a re still interes ted in local co mpe tition s a nd
plu"y rf.g l.ll a rly for th e RA.O ,C.
C pJ. El good put up a good sho w aga in st a mOTe
e ~p e ri e n ce d opponen t in th e R.hin e Arm y Cup , and
11/I s te~ n l S gl'IOUld Improve cOl'ls ldel'" bJ y in th e
sUllni er clim e wh ere he is goin g . Sa li s bury ~ nte r
tained us magnifi ce ntly . an d aJt,houg h we didn ' l,
ma nage to go an y furth er we we re very g];td
Sgt. Jorda,n a nd S / Sg t . Aylin met-th e form er be in g
success ful but he capitulated to Sg t. Boan as wh o
had to ho w t,he kn ee to Sg t . H a nson .
B:Ulards,-Q .M .S. Jon es ha s Sgls. R yan a.nd
M.a nd e r und er hi s wing . S .M . L a mb ert a nd Sg t .
Hoa nas pl;ty l'Eg ulad y for th e R. .A.O.C .. and wi t h
S/ Sgt. _\ y lin a nd th e a bove we a re play in g th e
R. A. O.C H fri endl y in t he near fu t ure.
General,-Sg t. Crowe join ed t he Pa v Offi ce pri or
to prOC3 din g 1,0 Shan e;h ai where he will he at hom e.
Th e pro bationer reli efs for th e a bove will , we hOp'e.
meet with th e sam e success as th eir pred Ece,s so l:s ,
lI t B o.nng ton S .M . Gri gg ;s hein g assisted by Sg ts.
Lep, ,\11'1 G il eR in ma kin g hi s quarter. hUl'g bu' proo f.
L /Sgt. Watson helped 10 mak e th e T nttoo at Tiel worth a . uccess . At th e II 1-\ ,O.C. Annua l Spo rt s
we lIl et S 1\,[, D oll' a nd Q.M S W ntkin s, a nd nt th e
R A.M. C. Spo rts a t N etl ev Tin v B o:rgis was s t,lld~'
ll1 g fi eld event s . 8. M K a in e paid us a vigit nnd told
u ~ of hi s move to E gy pt aga in . On 21st Jul y T
wa s pl oased t o see ma ny old fri end s frolll .'\ ld e rshot
om e at H a y lin g I sla nd . Those who vi sit South sea
shonld I:Ot, be surpri sed to see some of th e old

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ba uds. Co l. . T odd , Maj. F . Dav is a nd Sg t. G,

Sm Ith have set t,ledJ here, N avy 'W eek in Au g ust is
a big a t trac ti on .
Q.M .S .s H a nsen, Hi llye l' a nd BarrEtt will help to
s well th e numbers at F rntt,o n P a rk- we are keen
on foo t b ~ 1I hel'e althou gTl we ha ve nead y all rCach ed
I.he passl\' e st a.ge.
Sgt . H . Wil so n has left us on being di scha r ged
to pension. W e wish him the bEst of lu ck for th '~
future. H e is in mu c h dema nd as a n umpire at,
c ri cket ma tches.
H .E.B .
WINCHESTER ,
Since our la st contri buti on to t h e " J oum a.I",
eve n t~ Il nv~ bEe n. a littl e mo re stirrin g t ha n usua l
111 j,hl S an Cient, CIty of Win ch e~ t er.
Our hes t wi s hes a re ext"mdecl to Ca.p t . J . P. N .
Whitty (Royal Sussex B egt.) fo r a sUCCEss ful con cludin g exa min a tion in Octobe r.
W e congl'a,tulate L /Gpl. Du ckwor }h (Loya l R egt.)
on hi s admi ssio n t,o th e Corps and welcom e D vt'.
W eaire (KIf. A.) on probation.
Cricket Match ,-For th e first tim e sin ce 1920 a
cri cket t eam wa s rai sed by th e Staff a nd a match
a rranged with t he Rifl e Depot. not th e Sgts. Mess
but th e Depot itself. After int ensiv e pra cti ce fo r
several w6ek s th e g reat day da wned and with what
res ult ?
Th e detachmen t ba tted first and am assed a t,otal
of 69 ; when t.ea was call ed th e D epot had ll1"d ,'
62 for 7 ;tnc1 ou r pl aYErs strutted into th e pc3 vil io ll
lik e so ma ny W yatt.s and L a rwood s, bu t wh "t
hap pened a ft e r tea. nohody knows, for th e D epot
thra h ed oUt' howling all over H a mpshire and fi nished
th eir innin gs at 180. Still, better lu ck n ext tim e .
Anoth er fi xt,ure has hee n a rran ged, thi s tim e
again st, th e R;A e De pot Sg t s. ' Mess , a nd th e r es ult
is already a fo rEgon e conclugion. W e wond e r ?
At Home.-Ca pt. and Mrs . G. W. Butler were
"at hom e" to memhers of th e Staff on Sa t,urclI1Y .
28th Julv , nnd a most enjoya ble aftel'lloon a nd
evenin g was spent.
An "A meri can T enni s T oul'11 a ment" was run dur
ing: th e day alld wa s won hy Mrs . Whi t t,y and Mr
CouI'm ey aftel' so me rea ll y good a nd strenuou s
ga mes.
At a bout 7.30 t he gu ests depa rted after ha"in g
ilujoyed a reall y d e li~hl.ful day. The inyita tbn
Wa., very mu ch a ppreciated by all.

Western Command
f!'Om A t11 hles id e we cii s ol11 b,trked at Bown css wh e re
min e 'host ha d in readiness furth e r I rovenrl er for
tl 'e g racin g of th E inn er ma n , and i t. ha s hpp n
rllm onred t lUlt on thi occasion on e individll,!1 devOlll'ed a whole sa Im on.
.-\ tired hut hll \lpy pa rty reached Ch s'er and di s
persed a t 11 p.m .
T enn is ,-To date we haVE pl ay d th e foJl o will /t
ma tches hIl t ha ve not vet founel our win "lin g form :-17th Jul y. v. Det. R.. A .P.C. Prest on, a t home .
Los t 4 - 5.
26t h Jul y. v , R A. O. Dep'ot , BUl'sco ug h . a t
home. L ost 4-5.
14th Au g. v. RA .O. Depot , Bur co ug h , a way .
Lo t 2-5 (unfini shed ).
Our vis it, to RU 1'scongh \V a~ a most eniovabl e one
fOl' whi ch we h a ve to thank OU1' ho st s of th e
R .A.O.C.

COMMAND P,'1.Y OFFICE , CHESTER ,

Moves ,-It is with hg ret that we have to state
th " t Li eut. -Col. F. P . V'dal , O.B .E . , is du e to
leave Ches'er on th e ';l8th Au g ugt on l~ o st ing to
NorLh ern Irela nd Distri ct . H e will be l'pli eved bv
:\<!a ior E W . Booth , to whom a h ea rt y welcom e
IS ex t end ed .
Office Outing"-Onr a nnn,,1 ofn('e outin g t hi s yea r
was n visit t o t he L a k e Di stri ct on th e 21s11 Jun e
T he Party of 20 indu(\ ed ('<'pt ain H . A. A. H o well.
M .B .E .. a nd Li eut. W. H . Moo rcroft, and an en joval,lc d ny wa s spent.
W e j0111'n ' ved to W ind el'mere by special rnilw>ly
<a loon and on a rrival lun ch wa s provide d a t hh e
La kesid e. H otel. t hi s bein g foll owed b ~' a t,rip up
th e lal< e to Al11h leside.
Unfol'lun ,tl ely th e tri p
W;tS ma rred hy ra in but thi s did not damp t,he
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Social Club .-Thc annual trip wa. held on 12th
July. wl, en n pnrty of 60 m ember,. wi,' c and
fri end s . le-IT W e offi ce '~bout .9 .n.m . 01' N ew
Brightoll. Aftet vi sitin g til e new bathing pool and
oth Er atkactlon s we had lun ch. and afterwards
m ade our o wn way to Livel-pool for tea. IAs a
departure from previou s veal's , after tea we arljourned to th e Empire Th eat,rc for th e E;vening
perfol'man ce, a nd then back to Preston wi t h a
coup le of " refu elling" stops on th e way.
Om ' ''cond tI;p wns a " t ag" pal'ty to th e
:'Goldcn Ball " , Pilling, on 25th Jul y . wh ei'e a howl II1g ma t ch betw een. t:he Civ ili an and Military staff
was played. The mlh t.mv wer e se verelv "SEen off"
hut a good fight was put up bv Ca ptain Han'd and
Sgt. Ormerod against Mr. Stafford a nd Mr. H enshaw in th e final of the "Knock-Out " pairs. In
th e op en handICap, Mr. St,n fford scored a vi ctory
o ve r Mr. Hedll1gham. AftEJ' th e gam es , nn impromptu concert was h eld and th e m embers were
a ll of the same mi nd that, th e event mus t be repE11ted . We were very pleased to hav e tihe company of Mr. Shonfi eld , late S.S.M., on thi s occasion.
Cric~~ t:-A game was play ed between th e Military
and C'Vlhan Staff, and although th e Civvies made a
score of 77. the milital'Y passed th E score with two
wi cket . th e first two batsm en retirin g .
Two games have been played with th e D epot.
Loyal R Egiment, and resulted ir. a win for each or'us.
The return match v.;th th e R .A .S. C. gav e u om
,'evenge for the narrow defeat of 1 run in th e las
game. W e batted first and scored 48 (Cpl. L ee 29)
and dis mi ssed our oppon ents for 12, thanks to th e
bowltng of Major .G~rnons-William s (Hdqrs ..) , 5
fOl' 5. and Mr. Wl l kmson, 5 for 7 runs. It is
thonght that, this score is tbe low es t evel' made i n
the Garrison L eague.
Our two renJaining matches with Depot, EasL
Lancashire Regim ent wi ll , if we win. place us with
our opponents at th e t,Qp of th e leagu e.

Tenn is.-We pla.ved Ches ter away on 17th July ,

and a ftEr a verv even match we gain ed a victo ry
bv 5 matches to 4. The weath er wa ' ideal and tl;e
fixtm'c was thoroughly enjoyed by all. W c are
looking forward to the retul'T1 match on 12th Septemb er.
In a tournam Ent held by th e 3O/ 47th Sergts .' }.Ifess .
Sgt. OrTl" erod. woo th e H andi cap Singl es llnd was
also on th e wlI1l1Jng Side 111 th e finn.1 of th e mixod
doubles . A second tournam ent is ill progress and
. the Corps is again promin ent: Sgl,. Wal ker is in
3 nmtls and Sgt_ Orm erod i likly to l,e in two
final s.
Office News .-We are ' 01'1')' to heal' t,hat Ollr
myth, is
Rewmental Pa y ma ter , M ajQ1' R. H.
leaVlng u ~ 'hortly fO I' Ho~g Kon ~ , and we hopc
that he WIll enJoy hIS I.OUI' In th e I. al' East. III hi s
place we are shol1,lv to welco me our n ew RP
Lt..-Col. . G. H. Charlton, M. C . W e offer OUT' ~o~'
gnltu latlOn to L /C. Searle on p'as ing his' probatIOn . and to L i C. Street, on passing hi s trade t est
[01' Clerk Class 1. So fa r S.Q.M.S. Higginson ha s
been. w"m ed for Egypt du.ring the forthcoming
trooping season. and Sgb. PJ11k is on the waiting
list_

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SHREWSBURY.
Social :-On Saturd ay. Jul y 28th , \\'c enterl ain ed
th e Staff <?f th e l3cco!d a.ne! Pay om e . Li chfi eld.
Th iS fun ctlOn , w!l1 ch IS an annl1 a l affa ir, a nd certainl y loses nothIn g of its fl anonr hI' repetit,ion . is
on e of th e "high RPOts " of om ' ex istenc0 her e. On e
remembers th e d,w at L icnfi eltl m a ny year ' ago
when th e vi sit t erminat ed with an uor'eh earsed p~r:
forman ce b'y th e m en in blu e a ppearing gracefu ll y
before us at t,he ':Bowlin g GI'eE n" , sin gin g " Tim e.
gent.lemen. pl ease'. ~nd the subsequ ent r eturn of
s on~ e of our' peopl e to Lich fldd on oth er than n
socia l .c a ll. This. year nolhing_ untoward happ ~ n rr1.
Ot!r. Vl sltors a rr.lved about 2.30 p.m. after ,1\1 in s Plnn.~ run. havll1 g had lun cheon in t,he vi cinity of
W.mkm.
Th e weather outJook wa s not too
bng~lt, so .everybody ha ~ n ed off to th ei,' respecti ve
pa stlm es. mtent on getting in an e ffor t hef(we t he
rain cam e. Our bowling ~re en. whi ch is on e of
th~ best 1\1 t,he offi ce ground. ha rl received a specia l
t<?ll ~t only that morn ing, and to th e saicl green Ollr
vlCt,l ms were duly l ed , and th ey were likewi 'e lerl
all through the match. '0'e are not, crowing over
our Vl ctor'y . becauRe th e tncks of th e green here are
our. own secret . Th e Li chfi eld Offi ce may be prep'armg a trap for u s for n Ext veal' .
But a littJ e bi'r d l,el1s m e that at t enni s we bent
a. ~ith erto invin cihl e t eam . There a gain local con ~htlOns have h elped us ,. as a strong wind was bl owmg fl'om th e W elsh hIll s acro ss th e courts. \l'hi h
led to some very "brainy" strokes bein g pe'1)etrated.
Th e match .was not~bl e from on e or two points .
th e hard h lttll1g of Ll eut Colon el Roboth am whi ch
n Ecessitated a field in the "deep" . and ~ ' ''com e
back" st,ngecl by Capt ain W. 'William3 who had
not played since he left Hong Kon g i n ' February,
1933, but who gave noble support in thi s event.
We aTC hopin~ that th e tennis de feat inAi cted
npon "Lichfi eld" will spur I.hem on to a chall enge
for a r eturn m at ch. After a,l1 , w e plav th e Chester
Office twi ce every year , a.nd an annu al m atch both
hom e and awa y , with Lichfi eld would be equltll y
agreeable .
T enni s over . the inn er m an cal led I1 S stri tlv to
at,t ention , aud . so journing to Moni a's (Jafe in' th e
town . we taught the said iuner m an a lesson. Bl'ief.
hUI, pithy sp eeches Iw Li eut.-Col on el W. D. N .
Rohothltm and Major H. C. P ewsey. set evel')' onc
at ease.
Aft er a short inter val. during wh ich OUl' visilors
T)atron' seel the loca l places of interest . and th e
hd ies vi ewing Ul e shoT.> windows , rem ark ed: " 1
ran Il'et th em at half th itl; pri ce in Li chfie.l d". or
"M" butcher charges me twi ce as mu ch". everybody
('on centratcd on the "Masonic Arm s" . and th e
final ev ent of th e da.y had b egun.
Popular choruses on t,h e pi a no. wit;h l L1 s t~r voice'
in support. di . pelled the gloom of any' "Empire
build ers" who mi[!ht have been thinking of th eir
work. and helped to get th e paliy into full swin t! .
yve th a nk Olll' vi'it,OI'S for providing .so mu ch t alent
111 th e p ersons of S.Q.M .S. s Colli er and Close. and
1\11'. Bai sden.
Ju st as we were l-eally beginnin g to eni ov 0\1l'sel ves, som ebody bega n to count ten , and will, somo
very <lppropri,tte tun es in our ra rs , a nd a " bon
voyage" speech by Captain W . 'iVi ll iam s, we
escorted 01.11' visitors to their chara.bancs.

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A chorus of good nights, a nd one of th e happi est

days of th e ye:ll' was ended.

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i. full up. Li ch fi .,ld h a ve challen ged li S . as \\'e

ho ped tllE''y wOlJ ld , so we tra vel forth t o bat,tle at
lh e end of 11 lI gust.
Th e Sel'goa ntR' 1 1ess of th e U ppo t., Kin g '. Shrops l~II'e Li ght lnfa ntr.v ha \'<' lIl\'l t d us to tt tenlli s
" f( ,e rnoon on f: ept,PHliJer 1st, alld on Se ptember 4th
OUl: :1 nn 11:1.1 match at ("h cR' cr with th e Co'mmand Pay
Offi ce tn.k es place.
Dare we sa y 'we anti cipat e a ViCtOI,), in ea h ca se?
Yes, I think so!
.
Moves.-S.Q.i\1.S. T. H all is leavin g thi s veal'
for th e la nd of th e Pharaohs.
.
S.Q.M.S. G. L. T erry is on th e "rlithering " list.
and Sergea nt C. D. 'Natts proceed s to B ~ m e t in
reli ef of hi s c.xchn.n gc.
.

Bowls.- ' iV ha vc h~d tW Q "e lY lIi ce m a lelH.' s

with th c Sergc ..~nts- M ess . D epot.. K ill)('R Shropshi,'C'
Light 1nf" nLrv , and on I)oth occas ioll . have mana ged
t,Q WIn at hom e ..Ind a \\' ay. But th e re, a nyo ne \\'h o
has bee n trained on OttI' gr/;c n ought 10 lie ab lc t.o
pla y anywhere.
On th e occasion of the away match, we also
played snooker , but we were decidedlv off colour
at that, aoel so WEr th e snook er ba ll s.
Th ey were nearly all white and :I course of hom e
dyeing had not impl'oved t hem .
Tennis.-Our progrnmm e of t enni s engagements

Commands A broa.d
et in and we did no t s ~ clll' e anot,hCl' g:!tine. The
final score helllg 5-4 ~gain s t (13112 in sets).
"I!llrll1~ ~!l e se ason we have had many pleasant
fl'l endh es . a gall1 t o l ~ fr Iend s and hav/; uph eld om
repulntlOn In th e t' nl1l s \\'odr!. Lik e la st veal' we
man aged to select th e hottest day (113 ) ' for ' on!o'
of our gamES.
Flood lil!htilJ g is now in sw ay out here and we
have been in vited to play a t ealil in R eliopoli s thi R
week. Th ey ha ve foul' courts nea r th e Roxv Cin f mR.
and J am sure i~ will h e a very pleasant way of
pa: lI1 g th e evel11n g.
.
The .\ r my Cha mpi onsh ips of E gvnt, at Gezirn.
were held from 14th lo 22nd May. arod we
a re pl en.secl to place on rfcord th e sucoess our
player s (arn ec1. \\'enrling th eir way t o I,hree semi final s and two fin als.
The el'trants were :Op en Ringl f' R--Ca pt,a in Hand s .
Hanrli cap' Singles- Ca pt. BalTatt, Sgt . Ede an rl
Rgt,. T,,, ne .
OP (,~l .1Jol1hles--Cn pt. Barratt. Capt.. Hand.
H a ndi cap Doubles-Sgt. Ed e. Sgt. Bark ~ r.
H andi cap Mixed Douhl es- :)t!t . ~nd Mrs. Ed e.
O.H, Douhl es- Sgt. Ecle. Rgt. Lan p.
V et era ns Doubl es- Co pt. Ba1'l'att,. Sgt. B nrkel'.
In E VEnt 1. Ca ptain H and s gave way to Bailev
(R .A.) in th e 1st ronnel.
.
E ve nt ? saw our pbyers to th e forc but th e hanrlic:lpping C01l1mitte., did not err 011 th e lenient, side
to t he Corps plav ers . Capt. Barrat,t heing- minuR
2/ 6 and Ed e "nd Lan e at. scratch . Capt ain B:tlTnt.t
lost to thC' runnu 111). \\'hi lst Ede lost to Lt. Tu cker
(R.C. of S.). and L ane to
Des Voeux (Gre'11.
Gd s . ).
Th e Ooen Doubles (won hv Li ellts . .Tenkins and
E crles . H,.T.e.) saw Cap.t. Banatt and Hands to geth er. Hnd a ft,cl' a good Il'am e lost to Rocqu c,tt e
anel Gol rlll.y (R.A .) , th e latter being beaten in
th e semi -final.
Tn th e Hall(li cap Doubl es. Ed e a nd Barker phwed
through to th se mi-filla I. wh ere th ey were eventll nlly beaten hy th e pair tha t won th e event.
In th e Mixed Douhl e . the Corp h eld thei,' own .
and with Ede and Mrs . Ede jn th e final a gaill st
Capt. Goldn ey . R.A .. anel Mrs . Goldne~' . intere. t
centred on thi s event. Om pair, after two h0111'R
~I'n elli ng tenni s eventua Il v emel'gEd vi ctOlious tak 109 the match at 6/ 3, 8/ 10 9/7. Congratulation.s.

EGYPT.
T hel'(\ is hut littl e to report regardiJlg t,he pas t
qu~rter.
The weather has been ext,re11l Ely hot and
tl'y1l1g, and to add to this it is a time of real hn.rd
work owing to th e reduced taff on account of th e
call of t.h e Military Fa.miEes Oha.nge of Air Camp
at Mustapha.
D~rin g the second week in June . fumiga ti on was
('al'l'1ed out, thc Sergeants' W[ess and Deta chm ent
Ba l'1'ack Room b eing closed and SE al ed for th e
purpose.
~he single personn el were atta ched during thi s
r.ellod to th e R.A.S.C . Se"geants ' M es and accom modated in what appeared t o h e an old s tnhl ~ con verted jnto a gymna ium fiitu at ed 'outsici t.h e
Sergeants' Mess. It was reported that t,h eir lumbers were brok en in th e earl y h011rs of each' morning by t,h e shri eking no.i se 'of t he slow " Ghost '"
train whi ch passed hy . a few feet awn.y from their
tpmpomry qua.rters; t h e doves nesting in th e 1'0 0 '
were early ri se rs and add ed furth er discom fortur e
by th eir qu eer noi ses .
Conseqn ent on th e completion of th e move into
Main Barrncks of the 6th Bn. Roval T ank Corps
the Deta chm ent harra ck room is b eing h and ed ove r .
and our Sergeants' M ess is being reconstt-u ct eel. a
portion of th e mess i ~ to b e used as a barrack )'oom.
'iVe nJ'e pl eased to hear t.hat a verandah is to he
constructf' d on the Sl ade Ground Rid e of t.he mes, .
whi ch wi ll add to the comfort of th e mEmhers during the summ er evenings It is expected th at th e
mess wi ll reopen in about three WEek s' tim e.
/\. gam es tOUl'l1ament fo ll ow ed by a smok er. h eld
on Saturday evening , 11th AUl!us t . to mark t he
occa_ion of the reconstruct;on of th e mess anel to
bid fa,rcwen to tJle personnel forming the ~ ew P~y
Offi ce :It Khartoum, was an undoubted s ucce. s. '
D~partures .-TllP fo ll owing will short,ly he proreed1l1g to th e Sud an on th E op ening of th e Armv
Pav Oflice at Khartoum on 1st September . ]934 .
and we wish th em all the crood lu ck durin cr th eir
tour in t.h e Sud an. Capt..{in O. P . .T. R~on ev .
S.S.M. G. A . B am es, S.Q.M.S. P . Matth ews .
S / S e rg~. F. A. Vin cent" aod Sergt ..1. R elso.
. '!'ennls.-We entered the. Comma,nd T eam Comp'etltlon ancl.were drawn aga1l1st R A .O.C. in th e fir t
round \\'hl ch was , unfort.unately . our last . Com men cing at 11 a .m. we soon took the lEad and b"
II.I.nch time the score was 3/ 1 in our favour. After
wlIlmng t he first m:J.tch aft&- llwch. a complete rot

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Ed e a nd La ne were un lucky in t he Ot her Rank s

Doub les. Th ey were d ra wn in bh e first ro und
aga in. t th e pai l' th at eventu a lly " w" lked" t he final.
vi z., Pavey a nd Kni ght (R ..E.) . It " :"s a good
gam e and th e final score aga.lIlst our pa,lr was 6/ 4,
6/4.
.
Veter"lls Doubl es . H ere we had th e Corps a!1;aln
represente d in th e final by Captain Ba l'l'a tt and Sgt .
Barker . Th ey had , ho wever. t o g ive best to Col.
Sprot (K.D.G.s) a nd Ma jor Rocqu et te (R.A.) afte.:
an exciting stru ggle. .
.
Cricket.- Cri cket wIth the Pa,y Co rps In Egypt
has been pursued wi t h zeal and una b ~ ted en ergy.
W e have enj oved a lengthy fi xture hst a.rra nged
by Sergant Evans as H onor ary Secret ary, w1th
va ryin g l'e ult,~. To date 36 ma t ch es have been
pla yed. of whi ch 14 res ulted in our fa vour and 1
was dr awn.
Visits of special note have heen made to Gezira.
th e famou s island of sport in th e N il e, whe: e. ga mes
wit.h th e Gezil'3 Spolting Club, th e Can o CIty
Poli ce a nd th e Y.M.C.A . have t aken pla ce. Th ese
gam es i't l'e t erm ed ~ p eci a l because th e ma t.ches ha vb
bee n played on tud which. o~ course, is un common
here in Ph aroah's land. It IS sorrowfu l to record
ih at th e Gezira games r esulterl in OUI' ignomin ous
de fea t on each occasion. However. every gam e
wa th oroughly enj oyed and OUt' hosts enterta in ed
us most, lavi shly.
. .
Th e r emainin g fixtl1l'cs have been pl aYEd l\'Ithll1
th e Gan ison , mo stly on sand y ground s WIth n;at
wi cket where we have ha red honours equ all y WIth
our opponent s.
It is gra tify ing to r eceive th e a ble up port of
Lt.-Colon el Cliff and Ca pta in N orton who encour
a" ' us with their presence a t most, sporting ev e nt~ .
"'CapLain Ba rratt has ",kippered " us in the
majority of games a nd. he is at th e head of th e
bat/,ing performan ces w1th 82 not out v. th e Rov a l
'I'nnk Corps. Th e ru nn el'-up is our . worth y " Bob"
B e~ on s all. who has perform ed cred,tably throu gh
out t.h e season with hoth hat and ba ll and ha s
t wo not out perfor mances of 72 v. Corps of Military
Poli ce and 65 v. H eadqua rters B ,; t.i sh Troops in
Egypt.
Th e sons of Lt.-Colonel K ell y and Ca ptain N orton.
who are s pending th eir holid ~y \'aca tion with t,heir
parents in Egy pt, were. lIlVlted to .play for th ~
Corp,s, and t hese prom lSlIlg youn g cl'l ck et ers JU S!I fi cn 'th eir inclusion hy a good kn oc k.
W e excell ed in th e first round of th e "Sma ll
Units Trophy" compet.it;ion by puttin g it across
l h ~ 8th Hussars, but wh en th e SEcond round was
pl aved versus th e 2nd Fi eld Comp a,ny, Roya l
EI;'(!in eers, we collapsed hopeless ly .
W e ha\Te plaYPd foul' hom e and a,wav fi x ~oUl'e"
with Sel'l!eants' Me. , . t eams of th e K.D.G. s and
B .A .. and again we shar ed honours Equa ll y.

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i3ergt. 13essent is to be congm(,ubted on being

pl aced 0 ,1 th e cO\'eted Marri ed Q,ua rters R oll.
c.Q .M.S. L overin g expects t o ret.ul'l1 to Blighty
on 1s t October on probati on for W .O. l. W e wish
him eyery sncce s in th e futur e.
S~'rgt. Co ll ins 11f~s made a splpn d id r ecovery a ftel
hi s seJ;otl op EraLlOn m Apnl last, and IS ah'eady
feel ill" th e irkso menes. of hi s role as mere spec.
ta ~(lr "at, 0 111' cl;cket, ma t ches.
Cri&ket.-vVe have had ma ny splEndid ga mes and
severa l Ull 0 ffi ci,11 social " occasion s" too.
W ~ " 'ere lu cky in our all otm en t o.f No. 2 Grounci.
Torth Fro'lt. whi ch all form er res1dents here wd l
surely recall with its g reen . re.-tful background of
p ~lm;; . ptc:. , and it has 1 een deli gh toful t o see i,he
wi ves of th e ma lorlty of our Det achm ent , III dresse:;
cool nn d colourfnl , sittin g in th e s had e of t rees.
all knittin g whil e ~akin g- in' occasional dei ails of
th eir swains' strenuous eff orts cu t In the su n.
vVe have adopted a uniform kind of cricket cap
thi . sea 'on, da rk blue with n primrose ce ntJ-e panel.
To da te we ha ve pl ayerl 18 ma tches. won 6.
dra wn 1. a nd los t, 11. wh ich with su h limited re
sources of per sonn el is th ough t quite a good show
in g. D rtai ls of win s a re :v. R ock W ireless (R. N a vv) 184-142. S.SJI>f.
And e r~o n 89 ; S.S .]\'L D ea con 39 ; Boy Wl'l t.er
Fra nklin 4 for 12.
v. n.M.S. " Sha111rock" 256- 91. W O. }\ll pll
(A .E. C.) 100 : S.S.M . Dea con 90': , ergt.
R se nt 18 : Master D. Deaco n 3 for 18., .
v. " R " Coy .. R W elch Fu,,'s 132-108. W . O.
AlI en ( A.E. C.) 68 : S.S.M. Deacon ?:i ;
Mas tEr D . Deacon 4 for 15.
v. R ova l En l!in eer s 197- 54 . W . O. Ali en
(A. E. c. ) 108 : S.S.M . Dea con 19 ; S.S. M.
Deacon 3 for 10 ; Maste r D . Deacon 4 for 8.
v. Gihra lt ar .Cricket Club ]02-29.
v. Royal Signal s 196- 149.
W . O. AlI en
(A.. E. C. ) 88 ; S S.M. Deacon 4 f~H'. 20 . .
Our drawn game was \)' ith a strong c~ v l llan SIde
(Gibraltar r icket Club ) who, a ft~r SC01:"1g 29~, f~ r
7 wickets left us barely 1 ~ h ours III wl" c]' lo . !l .t
ou t" . T his we re fu sed t o do, 0 l1\' fin a1 s co r ~ ~I ng
138 for 9 wi cket s. A feat ure of th e Co rps 1l1nmgs
was a stub borll resistan CE. hy S S.]\f. Deacon (39)
anrl hi s son (16).
.
W e los t, in t,h e retul'll . ~am es t o t he R oval Slgna.1
by 5 run s, to th e Roval En gin eers by 40 run .. (~n
ti1is gam e Ma st er D . Deacon sccured th e ha!rtll ck)
H,nd to th e Royal ' ;Veleh. l~u sil.i e rs b~r SO, . . ~h!
R . A.M .C. beat us hv .1 Wi cket _111 a very exc lt1ll ~
fini .. h . Th e n.A .O.C. anrl RA .S.C:. proved . too
stl'onll; foJ' us on hOl.h o.ccasions.
.
he
Tcnnis .-i\ 11 pa r t.lclpat111g have mu cl.1 enJ oye d
month ly Mess t enni s afternoons at whI ch th e h,c IfS
arranged pi cni c t eas.
.
. .
A t eam was agalll elltered In th e Se nlol League
and a som ewh at un e_'pect ed degree of uccess
.
a ttain ed .. Our t eam. was :1st Pair~S S.'M. Dea con .a nd S.Q..M.S .. M f~nl) l n g .
2nd Pair- S .Q.M.S . H alte r and Sgt . Rl ddll1 gton .
Oll ly 8. t eams entered .
. tl ss
W e buat. the Jt A.S.C. a nd D .C.L .I. p01n e ,
drew with th e R ova l .,\A 1't 1'll el'v. t 00 k. set .s fr om tlleI
S. & D . a nd R oyal Engin eer s rl esplte d e fent~.
were only outclassed by tp e RA .M.C. a nd R. W in.
S S.M . Deaco n played 111 t he annu al mat ch: . .
ners v . R est . of the Calpe L eague. th e Chflll1 P
ship of whi ch hi ~ predecessor (S .S.M . ~on!J3k " ln
helped t,o win .
" DJ i\h.
.

GIBRAL TAR .
Th ese notes co vel' four out of Lhe fi ve s umm er
monlh s here. and t he ",ri,t er has found thi s pe ri od
i ust about th e mo t strenuous of hi s youn g life.
It is not only th e heat t,hat stresses but, H obson 's
Choi ce, on e h as to play in a t enni s or cr i.cket ma tch
nlmost everv dav . Prospec ti ve relI efs should t ake
note of thi s minimum r equirement, a nd th ey a re
also st,ron gly advi sed to leal'l1 to swim bej o1'e
arriv ill g here.
OUl' Corps Sergeants' Mess is. a li ve comm un al
tie, alth ough only " oEen" fiv e times a mon t h.

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HONG KONG.
Th e large in crease in th e Ga1'l;son her e has had.
" considerable effect upon th e acti vi ti es of th e De.
t.fLc hm ellt. L ast year we were fort un ate enoll j!h t o
have our own "At Hom e" days, ba th ing o util1 ~
" Sookunpoo" days and all th e enjoyments of f1
" unit" . Now we have ceased to be a " unit" and
ha ve become more or less "merged" for practi call y
all social a nd sportin g events. .As a furtl1er ha ndi.
cap, the weather has und ergone a complet e change.
R,dn- of whi ch th ere ha.s b een more th an th e
average--has cau sed many po t pooements, a nd it
eems likely th a t con sid erahl e congesti on will be
pxperi ent:ed wh en t he leagu es and tourn aments are
to he complet ed lat er in th e yea r.
Tennis - R a in and a confu sion of dat es caused
three can ceD a tion ~ of fi xturf'S a t Sookl1npoo at th e
beginnin g of t he summ er. hut, a st a l-t was made
with th e new allot ments at th e end ?f Ap,I;!. ""Ve
have shared 5 cou r ts on th ree occasIon wit h th e
R.A .M .C., R.A .O. C. and Ho.E. resnecti velv . To ~ n
al1 e th e detachm ent a nd famili es to enjoy th e
"Corps " atmosph ere, it ha s been a rra nged with
th e Units with whom we are "paired" to utilise
2 or 3 of th e 5 courts for th e Det achm ent, on th E~ e
days. This restl; ct,ion of th e number of court s
has definitely curtail ed our uRua l events and it has
already RholV n th at t ourn ament s and com petition ~
within th e Deta chm en t will be exceedin gly diffi cult
to a lTa llge--that is. if long- dl'aw n-out a ffairs a.re
to be avoid ed . Those who ha ve previouslv served
here will . no dou bt. appI'eciat e> wh atl one' day per
month a t Sookunpoo on 2 or 3 courts onl y mE'a ns
to us.
Army Tennis Team.- S.Q.M.S. Old fi eld and
Ser g:eant Wil on ha ve al!ain heen select ed to r epre.
sent th e Ann v Team in " C" Di vis'ion for this
year. S.Q.M.S. Miller (who a rrived thi s yea d ha.
also been in clnded. Tt, speaks well for th e Co rps
to h nve as many as 3 in th e A rmv Team out here.
Th eil' fi" st mat.ch produced a 9--0 will aga inst th e
Police Tellni Club.
liong Kong Area League. Th e Det achm en t has
again ent Ered a Team . a nd , as forecasted in p re.
vi ous not es. our pos ition will cert,ainl v be hi gher
thi s yeal. Between th e 15t h May and 23"d Au gust.
12 matches have been arra.nged. Our re'Prese>nta tives-Captain Ma ckenzi e. S .Q.M.S. Oldfi eld , Mi l .
ler a no Warman. Sergeants Wi lson . Tavl or a nd
Trihble--ha ve made an excell ent t ea m-a nd to da te.
are unbeaten . TaylOI' and Trihbl e take a turn as
reserves , bu t, un less anythin g unforeseen occurs,
th e t eam will rema in un cha.n ged for th e season .
R,es ults to date are :v . 9th A.A . my. R .A . Win 8- I.
v. 12th Bty. R. . Win 9-0.
v. "A" Co. 1st S.W .B. Win 9-0.
v. RA.S.C. Win 6-3.
v. R.A .O.C. "B" . Win 9-0.
11'0111' ma tch es have been postponed- H .Q. 1st,
S.W .B .. 40th Co. R.E. , "C" Co . 1st S.W.B . and
R.A.M.C.
Th e remaining fi xtures are ,vith R.A .O.C. " A" .
" B" Co. 1st S.W .B., R.E. Ser vices a nd " D" Co.
1 t S.W .B .
Detachment Tennis.-On t he 16th Jun e. th e De
tachm ent had th e use of ::\ courts a t Sookun poo.
Mixed and Men's Doublps were arran ged. UnfoJ"
tun at ely th e Mixed Doubles pl'Ogra mm e could not
be completed. F i ve na il'S ent red hut on ly t en
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demonstrated (,h a t difficulti es will a ri se with corn .

petiti on events lat er on.
The progra mm e for th e Men 's Doubl es was co m .
pleted and produ ced som e useful infonnatjon.
H a ndi caps havp. been altel'ed since th e last to urn amen t and resu lt s sho wed th a,t th e standard of tennis
had im proved a great, deal-of the four pairs, one
st arted at scrat ch. one a t plus 15 a nd t wo at minu s
15.
It mi ght be of in tere t to know tha t th e temper.
ature on thi s afternoon reached 95 ' -not rea l tenni s
wea th er.
The "D oubles " Competition.-This competition,
whi ch, unfort un a tely, had to be postpon ed 011
acco unt of th e very hea yy casualti es through sick.
ness, is to be comm enced aga in in t he near future
a nd it is hoped to give a f ul! account in th e next
n otes.
Sports.-Th e Small Units prov ided some interest .
ing events in t he A rea Sports. Th e deta chm ent lVa
un able to send along a ny team s, but Sergean t Taylor
who won th e mi le a nd h alf mil e la st y ea.r . a.gain
co mpet ed. H e fini shed furth 6l. behind this tim e
being 3rd in t,he t mi le and 4th in th e mil e. Anno
Dom ini . length of stay in th e stat ion , amd ll ew
blood in a now Inrger ga n; son contl;huted to th e
differences in th e two years' pla ces. His perform .
a nce however , wa s ve rv good' a nd earn ed fOI' him
selec'ti ol1 to compete for th e Small Uni ts in th e 1
mil e Tea m R ace a nd 2 mil e R ela,y R ace.
.
Cricket - Ta.vlor is still selected fo r th e Army
Tea m. H e was, as one of th e Smal~ Units Tea m.
on th e winning , irl e wh n t hey beat th e 2nd E ast
Lancs. by one -wi cket, in May last.
.
Shooting.-Little has heen cl one lat ely, and OWlIl g'
to th e summ er h ent. it has been decidEd to cease
acti vi ti es on t he Ind oo r R a nge fO! th e summ er
mont,h s.
Spoon Shoots.-The fifth spoou shoot took place
a t th e beginnin g of Jun e a,nd a keenly con teo ted
match ga \'e Pte. Doddrell a.nd Sergt . H an; s 1 i,
and 2nd pla ces wit.h _cores of 72.12 a.ndJ 701. 87 res
p ecti ve l~r~ spoo n
bein g awal'ded to each .
.
Peak Range.- An enl oya ble Sunday mornmg
shoot took pla('e on t he P eak Ra nge (at a. hei.l!ht of
1.300 feet). Our oppo nent. \I'e re t he R oyal Ai r
F orce f" om K ai Tak. With team s of 8. and t he
hes t six to count. nracLices were fired a t 200. 400
a nd SOO yards. Th e re ult s were surpri sing as
eadl t ea m' 'cored t he sa me total--307 point s.
Th e Det achm ent t eam was mor e con sistent th an
th eir onponents Tn clud ed in R .A.E. t eam was one.
not unknown a t Ri ;;ley .
Bathing.-As wi th tenni s. so with bathin g. Con .
s id erable cha nl!es h:1 ve been mad e owing to tho
l o s~ of th e " Tommy Atkins" and th e> in creased
ga rri son .
Th e ma rTi ed fa mi li ES ba thin g at Stonecutters
now suh iect to new I'ul es. E ach unit has an all ot,
ment, of " passages" on t.h e bnthin g laun ches. whi ch
mURt he strictlv adh ered to.
Thi s n ll otm ~nt is ju st suffi ient, to allow each
famil y one t rip to , t.onecutter per week. So fa r,
t he a-''l'angements haye wo rked very well hut onl.v
t he willin l! nrss of all to ('o,opf'r:1t.e has made thIS
possihl e. Wi t h fa mili es of vari ous sizes. so me li v
in g in H onp: Kon g a nd so me in K owloon . th e t ahk!
of accommodatin g th e!n cn n be 'hffi cu lt-o fte.n t hose
on th e Hon g Kon g SIde have to pro eed V !H S:o.1'
F erry to get th e Kow loon bun ch as t.ho se With
Row'loon " passages " ca nnot embark at Hong Kong .

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A number of th e Detachm ent are in th e midilt

of movJl1g qu arters, to enable the RE. s to instal
ni ce marble (?) bathrooms. It seems to be th e
general desire to do without the bathrooms in ex
change for bein.g left undi sturbed. Still , we hopc
soon to be hav Jl1g baths de luxe as compensation
for the inconvenience.
Tennis.-Th e final of the "O .J. " Cup (prcsentcd
by our O.P ., Colon el G. A. O. OrmsbyJohnson.
for comp etition among the other ranks of Detachment RA.P.O ., Malta) was played on 30th May
betw een Sergts. Oook an d Doh erty , th e form cl'
winning by 6/ 3. 10/8. He is to be congratulated
on b eing the first winner of th e cup , more so as
he was " top-weight" in the ha ndi cap ~t owe 30.3.
This annual competition togeth er with the fa ct that
we have our own wellequipped court, should do
much towards stimulating interest in t ennis. Our
C.P. and Mrs. OrmsbyJohnson were "at hom e" to
th e Detachm ent on that day and a ven r enjoy able
time was snent by all. During the a fternoon an
AmEl'ica.n Tourn a ment (Sealed H a ndi cH p,) , wh ich
was won by Sgt. Thornton and Mrs. Potter, was
a lso played . and proved a ~reat su ccess, than l,s to
our tenni s secretar , S.Q .M .S. Fellows . who wa s
J'espo nsi bl e for th e organi sation. A fter tea (not
th e leas t of the enjoya.ble eve nt. of th e 'lfternoon)
frs. Orlllsby-.Johnson very kind ly p!'esenl ed th e
prizes for all events of the T e nn j~ Season .
Thi s year' s Com mand Tournam ents SD w th in ception of a Unit Doubles competition . co nsisi,inl!:
of one officer and one other rnll k. It was almost
un animously a greed t.h at thi s bran ch of th e TOlll'naments produced t he best t ennis. so it is with pardonabl e prid e that we record th e ,:jctory of th e R.A.P. C.
pail', Oolonel OrmsbyJohn on and Sergt. Cook. It
was most nleasing to see the Colon el right on t,op of
h is form for th e final. in which OUt pail' be" t an
R .E. pai l' 6/ 3. 6 /2. Hi s voll eyi ng was es peciall y
I!ood. Sergt. Oook played consiRt ntly well through
th e round , and was really valiant in t.he fourth
roun d . "hen one set became a "Mar~thon".
Tt was unfort un ate th at; h, ~ t year's winn ers of the
Other R an ks Doubles: S .S M . Hun t and SCl'gt. Cook
werp, un a ble toO unite thin vea l'. th e fir st nam ed
havi ng had trouhle with his eJllow for some time.
W e managed to finish thirrl in t.h e W.O .s a.nd
e l'gea nt~ L eague. and would undoubtedly hal'e
bee n mu ch clo<er to the winn ers hut for sickn ess.
Cricket.-Only on e D etachment ~am e ha s bren
plaved recently. nnd that res ll ltcd in a. win by five
I.;<i ckets over R.M .S. Covel;try. but vario11s mem bers of llIP Deta chm ent have ril a~red for th e Com hiner! Snlftll Units team . Th r. C.P .. Ca,pt . Jam cs.
S.S.M. Rohin s anrl R.O.M.f>. Jewell. were selected
to 1)1:.v for the C.S.U. for th e GoveTnol"s Cup , and
R RM Robin s. S .Q.M.S. Jewcll "nd Sgt. Oore for
thp Solrli ers Cup. S .Q.M .S. TeweTl has aga in heen
Relect ed to() nlav for the Armv versus the Roy., l
Navy. whi le S S.M . Robins wOIJ Ic1 ha ve been plaYlllg
a lso ' hut for not heing qnite fit. Thi s old cri cket.
warrior is still as keen on the game as ever . an.d
we sha ll SOl' ly miss hi s sel'vices next year. FTe 15
du e for U .K . this troopin!! "eason .
On Probation for W .O.l -We con I!ra.tn Jate
S.Q .M.R. Newell on ('oming und.er t,hi s h ea ~in~ .
and winh him ~ Sll ccess fn l termination of h is "tJ'lnl .
Married Quarters RolI .-8eqrt. noh erty wa s
hrought on the M.Q.R. on 1st Ju lv . Th e news ~"a s
exceptionally welcome to him coming at the tJm e

Batning Outings.-\;Ve now do not h~ve ~ launch

for the Detachment only. Whilst still getting two
days per month for bathing picnics, we a re now
link ed wit.b our fri ends of t he Royal Army Medical
Corps ~ l1d wIth whom excell ent a rra ngements ha vc
ueen mad e as regards refreshment, etc.
Th ese trips are now pl'imarily for single men. but.
fortl.lnatel the "Omphale" remain s faithfnl to th e
tasks and all who wish to join in are able to do so
without fe~r of being crowd ed ou t.
New Comers. ~A heartor welcom e to the Corps is
extended to Lance Oorporal Doddrell 1s t :Bn. South
Wales Borderers. who joined on probation on 19th.
March and has already shown what he can do with
a rifle a nd tennis racket.
Trooping.-It is, a-s yet, too early to furnish
news rega.rding the movero.ents, but the following
m~v be of interest.
Due hom e :-Maior P. A. Gedge, Oaptain O. E.
Elliot R eywood . Captain Mackem:i e, Lient. Ros,
S.Q.M.S. Old field (who wi ll r etire in February.
1935) , S.Q.M.S. Warman , S/ Sergt. Rolt, Sergeant s
Garrod, P ledger, Oarter, H arris and Nash.
Other arrangements are pending and certain
alterations and additions will, no cloubt, ap-pear in
the next "Journal".
MALA YA.
ENOB . who has previously submitted "mixed
grill" for t'h e "Journal". departs from this clammy
spot this coming Trooper. and lil,e Elii~h has cast
his mantle on the un uspecting should et's of th e
writel' who , for the n ext three year , sanity" and
sobriety permitting, will endeavour to charm all
readers with extr~cts from local gossip .
Thanks to the effOl-ts of Sergts. Brown and Oash
man on t.he Entertainm ents . Commitue, the social
fun ctions of the Garrison Hea dqua~ters Sergts. '
Mess have livened up considerably,. In passing. I
may mention that Sergt. P enfold had a t urn at
Mess caterer and , somehow managed to mix up
Napoleon'S th eory that an army m ~rch es on its
stomach. Rou~hly speak ing, he did the marching
round the Ohmese market s and weo hadn't the
stomach. Sen~t. Newson also had to try his skill
as caterer ana made us all poilder on the PO/lt's
words: "Oh. for the touch of a vanished h:md!"
\;Ve r.e cently wi tnessed. from the Mess verandah.
one Saturday at mid: day, t.hat liquid ph enomenon
known as a Water- Spout, ahout a mi le out to sea.
The spectacle was uniqu e in that all tho eo wit
nessing it held in their hands ves. els of well-known
liquids . no doubt in an attempt to capture th "
"$1)irit" of the thing.
.
.
We obtained a mention in th e Oombined Ser
vices Sports wnen Sergt A . L . Brown obta ined :I.
tbird in the W.O. s and Sergts. R.ace.
La ck ing the good old. C9rpS asset of Long Servi ce
he had t" 'run from scratch. It is hoped that som e
of the reliefs for this Trooper will be able to supply
the defi cien cy.
LOUDEN.
MALTA.
Th e fad that' summ er is till going strong makes
it difficult to believe that the first "Trooper" i
du e in Ma.lta a.bout, three weel, s hence.
were
expect;ng two of our r eliefs on tha.t boat, hut thev
have been put . off unti l a later date . There ig
always a good deal of ,un certainty about the de
parture of reliefs to and from this st a tion 'when
family passages are involved.

'We

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of ~l1rent e ned ejEcti on from qu a rters of non -M.Q.n.

familie s.
Births.-Scl'gt. Oook a danghter on 27th F ebrunry.
Sergt. Ma rks a SOli on '23rd Jul y.
.
"BUTTONS".
TIENTSIN.
Sport -Cri ket and tenuis are now in full sw ing,
and a lthoug h th e hea L mterferes with a ctiviti es t o
a gre:Lt e.xtent.. we l1Ianage to put in a few hOlll's at
th;sc ports tow:trd th e cool of th e e\' enin g.
Th e only tennI S match played by t.he Ga rl'i on
Sel geants' :Mess t eam was aga inst th e Wellington
Club . to whom we had to admit defea t by one set.
Unfortun ate ly , Sergt. L ee was unable t,o pla~' ow in g
to !lIne s, othel'wlse th e I'esu lt mig ht ha ve bee n
rave rs.ed. Sergt. BOIl'n was oUr only oth ~ r repre
entatIve.
Prom.otion.- L / . ergt. E. F. BOlI'n . was promoted
Sergeant.on 1st July , 1934.
Shanhalkuan Camp.- Th e majority of th e Deta ch
ment ha ve samp'led leave at this' local Bli ghton,
a~d WIthout exceptIOn. have reported favourahly.
1 he sen .and green grass make a. welcome cha nge
to the c!Js mal houses and crefi{s of Ti entsin . In
the lleXt Iss ue of th e " Joumal" lI' e hope to in clud e
a ,c rI es of pl~oto g mph s of this part of th e globe.
Genera l.-]!or t he Inform atIOn of those II'ho are
luuky enough to be posted toO this station dJlJ1n g
the fOl'thcon!lng t roo pIn g sea on, may wc offer iJ
\I'OI'd of ac!vlcc? 'rhe mis~a.k en id ea seems to pre
v~ll that I. t does n t l'aJn IJ1 Tl entslJ1. and consoqn.e ntly . mlllcoats are left behind. W ell , it doeR
ra lll. WIth a venge:tJJce, fol' at least ix month R of
" OUTPOST".
the year. so. enough Raid.

Promotions and Appointments

(continued fyom page 307)
Probationers joined.
3128~35 Fusr. A . Mann , 26/6/34 (Egypt) .
5105791 Pte. E. A. Jon es, 4/ 7/ 34 ("voking)
T / 45061 Dvr. L. W . B e:,l, 4/ 7/34 (Chatham l~",
7882448 Pte. W. Wilso n, 17/7 / 34 (York R) .
5616656 Pte. O. R eed 23 / 7/34 (W a rJey)
1869490 SPI'. J . K. Black, 10/ 8/ 34 (Wooiwi ch).
6138~20 Gm. G. 1i'. A. I nglis, 16/ 8/ 34 (H.ilsea).
ProbatIoners transferred.
7882391 Pte. A. Dawson, 16/ 11 / 3ZJ (Woolwich) .
6746012 Pte. ~. J. Robertson, 22/ 11 / 33 (Chatham
SIgna ls) .
7882864 Ple. . T roke, 25 / 9/ 33 (Woking).
2321450 Pte. F. A. J . Sea d e. 4/ 12/ 33 {Presto n 1.
6665482 PIper L. Bruce, 18/ ]2/ 33 (Leith) .
6~4159'3 Pte. C. A. Frasel', 1/ 1/ 34 (Wal'l ey).
5181332 Pte. S. R Branch, 2/ 1/ 34 (Woolwich).
4103179 Slg. R. V\: oolley, . 20/ 10 / 33 (Leith).
6284433 P te. G. FI eld, 22 ; 1 / 34 (Hilsea).
4534741 Pte. B. Hi gson, 'lIl / l / 34 (York R).
385388! Pte. J. Duckworth, 13/ 2/ 34 (\<\Tin chester) .
Marriages.
!030912 S.Q.lI1.S. J. H . Spooner, 6/ 7/ 34.
i658035gt. G . H. P entn ey . 22 / 6/34. .
1865609 Sg t. O. P. BaJ'ling, 30/ 6/ 34.
3850261 Sgt. l't. Tasker, 30/7 / 34 .
1419622 Sgt. D. J. F. S. Adlam , 21 / 7/ 34.
7258831 Sgt. O. F. Oatle\. 24 /7 / ?J4.
Deaths.
.
7657271 S . . M. D . McFarlane, 1/ 7/ 34.
7657846 S.Q.M.S. G. B. vVhite, 5/ 7/ 34.

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Book Reviews
" Prison Letters of Coun,t ess Markievicz " (Const
a nee Gore Boot h) , Longm:tn s, Green & Co. , Ltd. ,
6s. net,.
Tol erance is one of the Englishman ' outs tand ing cham teri stic . Were it not so IVlessrs. Long mans, G ,'een &, Co., Ltd.. ould scarcely have presen teel tb is book to t he Englis h pub li c" who would
ha\' e been losers. th ereby, of much li ght on th e
Iris h ques tion.
Co n. tan ce Gore - Booth and her ister E va cam e
of a la nd eel Prote.;ta:l t fam il y of Co. li go. By
origin and upbrin g ill g, by cha ra cter a lld at k1.inm ent
none could have bee n bet,t er fi tted to al lev iate th e
hitterne s a!ld remov e th e mi sunc1Er tand ings he t,weell this countr a lld Irelan d. Th ev were both
id ea li st, devoted to th e prosperity of their country .
the weHn re of th e poor, and th e hetterment of co n dition s of labou ,. Tt is ind eed lamentah le that th ese
hi g h idea ls, common grountl 10 both countl'i es .
shou ld ha \' e driven the sisters to a hatred of Eng"
land a mounting, in th e case of C on~tance , to a
p'osi Li ve ma ni a.
Th e letters a re prefa ced by a biographi ca l - ket ch
by Ether RopeI'. a lose fri end of both sisters.
Co nstance was a gifted pa int er. keen on al l s ports.
and mu ch of her ea rl y li fe was spellt traVEllin g ill
E:lg lanel a nd on th e Co ntin ent. In 1900 s he married
Count Casimir Marki ev icz. a P ole by bil1.h, but a
Russiall SUbj ect. wholl1 ;; he met in Paris. After
six mont.hs sQent on hi s estate nea r Ki ev they settled
in Duhlin , and Coun tess 1arki evi cz grad ually beca me more and 1110re interested in poli t,ica l and
social question s. H er work for th e poo r . fo" the
Irish Bov Scout Movement. and later for th e work e r ~
during th e lockout of 1913, a ,'e bri efly dwelt upo n.
A full er account is given of her militant a ctiv lt.ies
from the outureak of th e rebelh on in 1916 to he,'
death in 1927. If th e sketch is not accept ed- .as an
entirely t rustworthy picture of eve nts. at least it
arouses eagerness for such light on the charnctell'
of t,hi rl'markable woman as her pl'so nal writings
can affo rd .
Th e letters th emselves are less politi ca l and perhaps less illuminatin g t.ban t hey wou ld have been
wel'e they not mostly \Hi tell in pl; son, :tnc1 subject
to censorship'. Th ey radi ate her love of h ela nd.
of her sistET, and of her fri en ds. Of self th ere is
little-o f self -p it.y non e. H umour is there, with
th e love of art a nd of nat ure, co ncern for th e POOl'
:tnd opp ressed. a nd nn <lo mazin g cheerful cOUlage.
As a da!'k backg round i undying bigoted hale.
Surely Engla nd can never have had a nobl e,' or
more bit.ter fo e. In so far as thi s book may affor(l
a n in. ight iilto l.he cha l'actEl' and ideals of th e hes t
I ,; sh R.epublicans, it will accompli sh a " 'ork of
enduring value.

" Slam Bidding at Contract Bridge," by Lt"Col

J. Grose (George j\ll en & Ullwin, Ltd.) , 2j- net ..
R aders who have fo ll owed Lt. Col. Grose's
a,t'cles in t he " Jourll a l" on th e elements of Con.
tract Brid/ie, wi l) we lcome th is conci e, clea rl y
II'ntten booK, dealing with a. s ll gh. tly more advan ced
phasE . of. th e game. Twent.y ha nd ' offering slam
poss,b,lI tles ha ve been selected from firstcla play,
and a clever sys tem of pre ell ta tion a ll ow two
perso ns, acti'~g as pal'tners, to bid und er conditions
apEroximntin g to Lhos of actual play. Wh ere
li e essary , opposin g bids are_s uppli ed.
Th e book is then refelTea to and th e post-mortem
dece nt,jy held , uUlI1 a lTed by. th E odious sympathy
of opponents. complace nt ly l,ck ll1g t.hell jaws and
marking up t he penaltj es. At th i. stage, all th e
hands are set out 111 full , th e actual 1' ults oh.
I <ti ned a re recorded , and th e possi'ble application of
various sys tems to th e situati ons are di scu sed.
Tot only i the fl11l bidding given, but it i. oftc11
cri t iciser!. ~ind its sign ifi cance is explain ed for th e
henefit of non -exper ts .
This book can be stl'Ongl y recommended lo all
who aSE,re to play even reasonably good Co ntmct
B,idge . . Th e genera l sta ndard is steadil y ri sin g.
a nd It IS a m,stake to regard systemati c find
accurate slam bidding as the province of th e expert.
Today no player ca n be consistently succas fill
without it, even in average company .

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(Ill ) Z should play th e Six from Dumm y,

NOT the Two.
A's Club \\'as sing le and he had four
trumps \\'hich had to be drawn before CIl1h8
could be made. If Duinmy gets out of Z'o
\\'ay at tri ck 1 . Z can make hi s conlTact
\r1th four H ea rts, four Clubs and DUHlm y's
t\\o Aces. Make a habil of keeping th e
10\\'est of partn er' s suit when you have
four.

Contract Bridge ,
Solutions to Problems (see page 305)

(I) Z's ce rtain losers being: one Heart,

Ace of Diamonds, an d Ace of Clubs, he
ca nnot afford tQ lose the King of pades.
He should put on the Ace of H ea rts and
lead th e Jack of SI ades, lettin g it run if not
covered.
(Il) Z's certain losers a re Ace of Diam ond s (a lready go ne) and Ace of C lubs, but
if he tries th e fin esse in Spades and it does
not come off, h e may los~ a Diamond as
we ll , trumped by A. Hi s best chance of
a voiding this ri sk is to lead up t;:; ill S Ace
of pades ancl th en lead a sma ll one. H e
ca n a fford to lose the Kin g.

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