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The Royal Army Pay Corps Journal
Vo
l.
IV. No 32
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Command Pay
Office,
Aldershot, Hants.
December,
I938 .
This
number
completes Volume IV
of
the
Jonrnal
, which extends over a
period
of
two years that have been as
critical
as any
of the
eight
years intimate Corps history
recorded
in
these
pages.
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*
*
The
Editors
do
not vvish
to
remind
readers
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THE
ROYA
L
ARMY
P
AY CORPS
J OU R .a \.L
orps
Sports News
RA P C GOLFING SOCrETY
One of
the min
or
but
none the
less dis
appointing effects of t lle
Crisis
h
as
been
the absenc e of R. A.P.C. Golf .
The
AutUInl1
mee tin
g ,
'hich was
to have been
held at
Ful
well on 29 th September, ,vas cancelled
and then, whe
n we we re looking
forward
to
o
ur
battle against th e Chaplains
at
Bram-
sho
tt
on 12
th
Octob e
r,
two
members , f
th
e
team \yere
und
er orders for Czechoslovakia
a
nd other membe
rs
we
re
vYork in
g
in strange
offices for
about
19
hours
a day.
In
addition
pr
actically no furth
er
cards
h
ave
been r e ~
ceived for
th
e
Ca
mpbe
ll Todd
Cup.
Mem
bers are
remind
ed th
at
thi
s co m
pe tition o
oes
on unt1l
th
e e
nd
of
th
e
yea
r
and any n ~ l J -
ber of cards can be se
nt
in, so there
is no
r eason \;v
hy member
s sho
uld not take
o
ut
a
card every time
th
ey go
out
for a friendly
ga
me.
This
brings to
mind the true story
of
James Braid, who, w hen he had mi ssed
p
utt
on
the
la st g reen at
Walton Heath,
stam ped his foot with rage. An onlookl:"r
sa
id,
" Jame s ,
I 'm
surp
ri
sed
at yo
u , los in
,;;
yo
ur
tem pe r in a friendly g
ame.
Oid
James
Braid
replied,
Th
ere
's
'
nae
sich
thin
g as a freendly
g'a
m e o 'go
uf.
Th
ere is no
doubt
th
at if
one can ge
t a
goo
d
. hate
up against
one's
opponent,
the
re
1S
more
chance
of
win nin
g .
This may
acco
unt
for the fact
th
at most of us are i)ei-
t
er aga
inst
fl
esh a
nd blood
than
card
pe
ncil .
As
we ha ve no
matche
s or
competitions to
report,
the Editor perhaps
will
allow me
space to try and pe rsuade more members of
the
R.A.P.C
. Officers' Club t o
take up
thi s
game of go lf . Most goo d cricketers
become
goo
d go lfers
and it
see ms a p
it
y
that
so
me
of our shining lig
ht
s in th e cricket team are
still
strangers
to
the Golf
Course.
Th
ere
are also many oth ers who a
re
ge tting beyond
the age
for
th
e
more act
ive
games and they,
as we ll as ,those who ha ve n ot been or eat
a 1 ~ l e S
play ers , sho
uld take
up
this game,
,,,,
h1Ch be played u p to prac tically any
age , wI
th
o
ut any
appreciable loss of s
kill.
Only a year ago I met a bewhiskered old
111
an
at Sa
ndwich
wbo h
ad ju
st ho led
th
e
St. George's Course in
th
e sa me number of
strokes as his age .
I have hea rd it said by those ,bo
don't
pl
ay
,
th
at
the
trouble abo
ut
golf is
that it
spo
il
s a
good
walk or consists of
tw
o o
th er
\vise no
rm
al peol?le wa lking along t
oge
ther
one of
them saymg b--
a
nd th
e
ot
her
bad
luck
.
l '
he
la
ter
cn
lCS
ll may COlltain
an ele
me
nt
of
truth, but
not th e former. I am
s
ur
e
if
th
e
rna11 who
e
recreation
is
vva
l
kin
o
k e s
up go lf ;he. wi ll find
th
at , bes
id
es
111 th
e
ope
n a1 r 1 1 ~ pleasant s
urr
oundin gs, he
h
as th
e added
mt cres
t of th is absorb in
o
b
ga me.
One
great
advan tage go lf
ha
s over o th er
games is
that
t he novice can play 'with the
crack ' i t h o L ~ t
spoi
lin
g
th
e l
atter's
ga me.
At
la \\'n t
enl11S
Bud ge
could
ol
;ve 40
and
o'ive
40 to practically any of us and \
Ne
never ge
t a
ga
me ;
but
at
golf gettin
g a
s
tr
o
ke
or t
vo
a hole from Cotton would
be
quit
e
an
easy
proposit
ion .
Please g i
ve thi
s ma
tt
er
your
ser ious
con-
sideration and let us see some lle
ViI
faces at
ou
r n
ex
t meetin g .
HO
CKEY CLUB NO TE S
Many members of last
year's
successful
XI
are no longe r available a
nd it ha s;
there-
for
e , been
nece
ssa ry
to
build up a ne w team.
Th ose
\ lhose
se rvic
es we have
lost
include
Captains Oliv e
r,
Mardel1, Sweeny and
R ees ,
and
S .Q. M .S .
Hehir.
Captain Oliv er has be en our Secretary
l
onger than
most of us care to reme
mber
and he has been large ly instrumental in
making our
Corps H ockey so successful.
Hi s enthu siasm \\'as cer ta inl y responsible
for k
eep
ing a hockey stick in the
hand
s of
many ""ho mig
ht
otherwi se have joined the
more staid memb
ers
of the Corps 'who
hit
a
go lf ba
ll from bunk
er to bu nker.
Hi
s
~ f f o r h
ave
been resnonsibl e
for putting
us
l 1
pe r
som
ll touch w
ith
man y \
\'
1
10
previously
had on ly kno\\'n
tb
e Corps as a necessary
evil.
Ca
l tain lHarden has been Captain for
seve
ral sea ons and has he l
pe
d
to build
up
the team . It is fitti ng tll at his last
season
s
hould hav
e
been
so succ ess
ful.
Captain Sweeny \\ as a tower of str eng th
at back
for many
seaSOllS
.
Th
ose of us \;vho
sa w l
as
t season' s
Eastern
Command fina l
at
Shorn ecliffe
\\
'ill long remember
the pa rt
he
and CaJ)tain Oli ver played in
that rn
atch .
Captain
Rees came
into the side
las t
year
a
nd
s
tr
eng
thened th
e for wa
rd lin
e consider-
ab ly by hi s play
at
o
ut
side right.
Hi
s
ex
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-peri
ence
in many
Anny Cup matc
hes proved
;a valuable asset .
S.Q
.M .S.
Hehir kept
goa l for a long time
and
had developed into a first class playe
r.
H e
was
abso
lu
tely reliable
and his
depa
rture
before the end of the
season
int erfered \yith
the
efficiency of
the
side.
The
pre se
nt
season has Dot been an
easy
,one .
First
cam
e
the cri
sis
to
cause
man
y
matches to be cance
ll
ed and
th
en
th
e task
of
constructing the new
side
.
Only five matches have be en played to
date
.
The
first \\'as lost
to the
Military Col
lege of Science
but
'\' e
cannot count tbat
as
;vo of
our
team,
\
'ere
tourin
g
the Kent
H op
--fields whi lst
th
e ga me ,, 'as being played.
Since
then
, ho,,
'eve
r,
we have beaten the
'
Trainin
g Batta lion , Ro
ya
l Engineers, a
representativ
e R
.A .P.C.
Ald ersh ot side,
the
Woo1wich
Garrison and 2nd Bn .
Th
e Dorset
sh
ire
Re
gim ent.
This year we ha ve entered the Army
H ockey
throu
gh the Aldershot Command
a nd were fortunate
to
dra w a b ye in th e first
round.
Th i
s \yill allow mor e tim e for team
bu ildin g and also more practice.
In
the
second round " 'e meet the
1st Bn.
Roy
al
B
erkshi
re
Re o iment. The match
should be
played by 19th January, 1939,
but,
although
it has not yet be
en fixed,
it is
possible
that
i t will occur at Aldershot on
23
rd January,
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SMA LL BORE
RI
FLE L EA GUE
The fifth
season of the above L eag ue has
110\\1 commenc
ed
and
res
ult
s received show
that
the ultimate_ \'inners of either Division
are not
g
oin
g
to hav
e
an
easy t
as
k before
them.
Shooting is not of such a high
character at this
period of
the season
as in
former years,
but
no doubt
111any
of the
better
known
rifle
shots
will soon
be se
ttlin g
do
'wn to their work, and scores \\'ill reach
the
high spot of other yea rs.
Each
Division has nine tea ms and it
l
ooks,
if
the present results
are 1l1aintained,
t hat we shall see some new names on both
trophies.
H O
\
'ever,
perhaps it ,\'i11
not do
t o
count
chic
ken
s too
early
.
Before th
ese
not
es are published
it
is ex-
pected
that
the first Lea gue Table will ha ve
been
compil
ed, and this
v"ill
be
followed
by
()thers
at
the end of DeceJnber, January and
February, but to
ensure this
bein
g
done,
C lubs
mu
st keep their fixtures up to date .
As
t he seaso n
progresses, the Committee
\\ 'o
uld \\
'e1come remarks and su
gge-:;tions.
Ther
e are s till quite a numb er of Offices
from \\
'hom e
ntri
es have not been rece
ived.
Although of course too late for thi s yea r, it
\\'ou ld be appreciated if,
th
ese \\'ouId,
during
th
e s
ummer,
cOllsider
th
e
matter.
Any
in
formation
required
ill be
g la
dly
sent. As
has already
been
menti oned, thi s is our fifth
yea
r;
so
far we hav
e
progressed
very " 'ell ,
and the formation of th e Lea g ue has fully
justified itself,
but
th ere is no rea ::on \\'hy
the season of 1939
-1
940 should not be a
record one. Such o
ffic
es as W ooh\
'i
ch,
\Vokin g , Houl1slo,,'. Canterbury and
Pr
eston, former members, are very much
mis sed. The se Clubs had to drop out
thr
ough difficulties
,,'hich could
not be ov er
come.
We
sho
uld
lik
e
th
ese
Ciubs
t o
make
another e
ff
ort to resume
th
eir activities nex t
ye ar. th
ose offices
,,'ho have
not yet
enjoyed th e pleasure of pitting their
s
tren
g
th aga
inst o
ther
s .
Perhap
s
the Hon.
Sec ret ary and
th
e C011lmittee cou ld he l
p?
Aldershot
ha
ve
had the
pleasure of
train
in
g so me really g ood shots
in
the past. Many
of th ese are
no,,
- \\-ith other offices,
but their
nam es
do
not appear among the teams
in
a
lot of cases.
In
so
me
cases they have joined
offices " 'here no team exists; it is to these
members
that ,, e
look to t ry and create
the
shoo ting
sp
irit,
th
us ma intaining and in
creas
in
g
the
interest
S11O\\,11 'hi
le
they \\'ere
in Aldershot.
t
does Jl ot do anyone any
harlll to learn to use a usefu l ,, 'eapoJl . ':'Iay
,,'e
th
erefore ask
th
ese
1l1emb
ers to do
their
utm ost for ll S.
At present
t
he
L
eag
ue is represented
by
offices at H ome stati ons o
ut
of 23. In
1939-
1
94
0
\\
'e \\'ou
ldlik
e to see 100
per
ce
nt
.
T eams have been purposely reduced to 5 so
that
even
the
smallest o
ff
ice
ma
v enter.
Th
e
f f i c l l l t
of obta i
nin
g a
;ange
is
all
imp orta 'l1t facto r, \\'e kno\\' ,
but
if
the
sp irit
is the t-e':thi s difficulty should easily be over
COlne.
Before
th
ese n
otes
are published
th
e
e
ntries
for
the Xma
s Shoot \\'ill
have been
received
and it
is hoped
that
this com
petition will h
ave
a large entry .
At the
end
of
the
season
e
sha ll have an.other
competition
for
teams representing Officers,
Oth er :VIilitary rankS, Ladies
and
Civ ilians',
and the selection of
th
ese teams \
:v
ill
be
made according
to
average obtained
from
the commencement of the season. There
may also
be
time for ye t another competi-
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tion, so if
there are
any sugges
tions
re
rgat
d
in g the conditions that mig ht be adopted ,
please
send them
along.
The Hon. Secreta ry had a visit fronl the
Area representative of
the
S.
1.R.C.
re
cently . I
cannot
repea t all
he had
to say
about our League, but I can
assure
all mem
bers
that
we hold a very
prominent
place
in
the ir esteem,
and the Secretary
of
the
S.l\I.R.C. is very int erested
in
our activities.
If any
member
of
an
office
team
is a mem
ber
of any civilian
Club,
the Hon. Secretary
of the Leag ue wou ld lik e to hear from
him
.
Although the Hon. Sec
re
tar
y
of the
Lea gue has had to g ive up serious rifle
shooting owing to recen till-health, he \;vi ll
still
enjoy
watching th e
results coming
in
\\edd
y,
and
is
still eve
r
ready
to g ive
hi
s
assistance.
League
Tab
Jes to 19th November, 1938 .
DIVISION
T.
llfb
Fired 1I 0
Dra '
wll
Lost
rJgg .
Pohli
s
Ald ershot
"A"
5
4
1 2403
8
Hil sea "A" ......
5
1
1
2391 8
Chatham
"A"
....
4
3
1
1924
6
W arwick "A" ...
4
3
1
1891
6
Aldershot
"B"
...
4
2 2 1868
4
Perth
"A
...... . .
4 1
3
1826
2
York . .
.
5
1
4
2259 2
Edinburgh ...... ...
5
5
2178
Egypt- N ot
yet
fir
ed.
DIVISION
11.
llfb Fired
11 0 Dn 1 1C'J I
Lost
rlgg
POi t5
Salisbury . .
. . .
5
4
1
2263
8
Chatham
"B"
.... 4
3
1 1821
6
London . . . . .
4
3
1
1818 6
Hilsea
"B"
.......
3
2
1
1365
4
Warwick "B"
.. ..
3
2 1
1352 4
S h r e
...... 4
1
3
1477 2
Perth B
..... . 4
4 1718
0
Malta;"
.... .. . .
.....
3 3
1140
0
*Service Rifles.
In sea rching
throu
g h
the Lea
g ue Table of
Matches completed
up
to v
v
eek
ending 29th
October, r93 8, it ma y be of interest to Clubs
to know
that in
Division
r, one
Clu b (not
Aldershot) has completed and won three
matches
w
ith an aggregate
of r,449 points,
which is an
average
per match
of 483; two
other
Clubs have completed
and
won two
matches
with an
a
gg
re
ga
te
of
949 points
(average 474.50) and 932 (ave rage 466) .
The Division 2 is
mor
e
interestin
g still,
tvvo Clu bs have completed two matches, and
,von
both
w
ith
an average of 452 points.
This shows that each point obtained is
go
in
g to have a g
reat bearing in
the
ultimate
resu t of winning or losin g a trophy, as ties
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62
\\"ith equal points can occur,
and
it wou ld be
to
th
e
inter
est of these Clubs ,
and in fact
to all Clubs, if they took this lesson to heart
no,,
and concentrated
on ge tting as
many
points
per match
as possible. I hope this.
\\ill com ey to Captains of teams the g reat
imp o
rtanc
e of coaching
and
that
their
duties,
lie in the
directi
on of seeing that their mem
bers ' sight in' more carefully before com
mencing
the Match
card. I am aware by
scrutinising th e Ca rds so far received that
more
attention
could profitably be made to
the use of the
\\ i
nd ga uge and elevation.
\iVh at
about
i t -C
ap tains of Teams ? One
click
right
or left, up or dm
,vn, may
mak
e a
Bu ll of \\"hat \\ould have been a 9, and that
one
point per member in th
e
Team repre
sents
5
points on th
e to
tal
score.
Well
v,
f
orth
considering. W,H.S.
From rrhe London Gazette
To be L t . = C o ~ s . and Staff Paymrs., 1st Class.
Major
H . C. Pe\\sey , 7/9/38.
Major
E. W . Boo th, .M.C., 28 / 9/ 38.
Ma jor F. A. Woods, 28 / 9 / 38.
To
be Major and Staff Paymr . , 2nd Class.
l\Iajor
and Pa
ymr. H. G. Enso11, 7/
9/38.
To be Major.
Capt
. (Asst .
Paymr.) P.
R. Fryer,
22 / 10/ 38.
T,o be Captains .
Lt. (Temp.
Capt
.) R. C. Thompson,
Wilt
s.
Re
g t., 25/6/38.
Lt. (now Capt.) R . D . Coate, Dev on
Reg t ., r/8 / 38.
Lt. (now
Capt
.) S. C. Roge rs, . Staf-
fo
rd
Regt., r / 8/ 38 .
Lt. (Asst. P aymr.) E.
W.
Lines, 12 / 9(3
8
.
Lt.
(Asst.
Pa
ymr.)
G.
Ros s, 17 /
ro
/38 .
To be Lieutenant (Asst. Paymr.).
Staff
Sgt
. Major C. Pearce, 2r / rr
/3
8
.
Transfer.
Capt. H . T. Pepper, W elch Regt., ceased
t o be employed with the R.A.P.C.,
25/9/,,8.
Retirements.
Lt .-Col.
and
Staff
Paymr.
E.
W.
G
rant,
O.S.E
:,
ha
-vin g
attained the
age
for
retire-
ment,
7/
9/38.
.
Major
(Asst.
Paymr.)
P. C. Hard1l1g ,
having:
attained the
age for
retirement,
/ rrl
38 .
DEATHS.
MACLURE.-On r6th November, r93
8
,
at West
Byfleet , Colonel
Sir
J
ohn Edward
Stanley Maclure, Baronet, late
Army Pay
Department,
age d 69.
THE ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS
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OURNAL
POST
IN GS
-O F
FIe E RS.
Allen, 2nd Lieut.
J.
G., Dorset Reg t., attached
Woking,
12
/ 10/38.
Barten, Maj or L
1.
F. , F
eo ts Crav
to Egypt , 1
/9/38.
Bednall, Lt.-Col. C N.,
M.C
, N orthern Cmd. to
Chatham (R.E.), 3/10/38.
Bl
oxham,
Li
eut. P. F. C , W. Yorks Regt. , jo
ineJ
Perth on Probation, 4/ 10
/38
.
Brayden, Major G . B. A.,
Deptf
ord to Southern
Cmd., 10/ 10/38.
Cliff, Col. A.
B.
, W eolwich to
Western
Cmd.,
1/9/38.
Cox, Major E. F
.,
Foots Cray to Eastern Cmd. ,
12
/9/38
.
Daish, Maj or L G., Southern Cmd. to Palestine,
2
/9/38.
Etherington, Major
E.
C , Ex eter to Palestine,
2/9/38.
Eynon, Major J. S., M.C, Hong Keng to Shanghai,
8/10/38.
Godwin, Captain
E.
B.,
N.I.D.
to Egypt, 1
/9/38.
Hands, Major A. C W
.,
Egypt to Deptford,
14/ 10/38.
HartC
ox, Lt.Col.
E.
W. , O .B.E., Chatham R.E . to
York,
3/
10
/38
.
Hill , Major S. N. , Palestine to Egypt, 27/9/38.
Jonas, Majer
E.
G. , Palestine to E
o-v
pt,
15 /9/38
.
Kelly, . Major
E.
R., York
to
Palestine, 4/
10
/38 .
Ma rd en, Capt. H . W. T. , M.B.E., Eastern Cmd. to
Palestine,
4/10/38
,
Morreil , Major H. H ., Chatham R . Sigs. to W es tern
Cmd ., 1/ 11 /3 8.
Mouldin g, Capt. J., Shrewsbury to Hong Kong,
1
/9/38.
Nelso n, Lt.Co
l.
G. W. , York te Northern Cmd. ,
3/10/38.
Noe lClarke , Capt.
R.
E. , R. Tank Corps, joined
Foots Crav on
Pr
ob., 7/9/38.
N orton: Capt. F. G., M.C , D .CM., Egypt to Foots
Cra)" 26/9/38.
Oldb
am, Ce
l.
P.
L Western
Cmd. to Singapore,
21
/
10 /3 8.
Parratt, Major CH. Eg)'pt to N.I.D ., 15 / 10/38.
Pep
per
, Capt. H .
T.
,
Welch
Re
gt
., Returned to
Regimental
Duty
,
25/9
/ 38.
Pewsei', Lt.-Col. H . C, Malta to Chatham R . Sigs.,
1/
10
/38.
Robotham, Lt.-Co
l.
W. D. N., N.I.D. to Win
chester, 3/10/38.
Vint, Major C
D.
, Western Cmd. to
N.I.D.
,
3/10/38.
Willi
ams, Lt.-Col. F. C , M. C , Hounslow to Pales
tine,
2/9
/ 38.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
To
be
Warrant
Officer Class I and
appointed
S.S.M .
7657961 S.Q.M.S. R
Scott
,
31
/8/ 38.
1030912 S.Q.M.S.
J. H.
Spooner, 12/ 10/ 38
7733578 S.Q.M.S. V. R Hazell , 29 /10/ 38.
To be
Warrant
Officer Class and appointed
S: Q.M.S.
4026887 S/ Sgt .
W.
J .
Newto
n.
20
/8/
38
.
7657916 S/ Sgt .
C.
Walker , 15/9/38.
7040473 S/ Sgt. W. Snowc1en, 4/10/38.
7869980 S/ Sgt.
E.
L . Botfield, 17/10[38.
1022503 S/ Sgt. H.
F.
Ev
erett,
25 /10/68.
7733578 S ISgt.
C. Swann, 11
/
11
/38.
5609796 S/ Sgt. A. H. Cashman ,
14
/
11
/38.
To be Staff
Sergeant.
1411624
Sergt. G.
D. E
gan,
3/3/38.
317 0684
Sergt. G. A. Lane,
25
/8/ 38.
7Q{)76E5 Sergt. J. Kelso, 6/ 9/ 38.
1412452 Sergt. E. W. Lewis, 31 / 8/ 38.
1419622 Sergt. D. J.
F.
S. Adlam, 9/ 7/ 38.
7576209
Sergt.
F. Camp,
';.8
/ 9/38.
7578182 Sergt. F. G. Gore, 12/ 10/ 38.
6910464 Sergt.
S.
R. Walker, 15/
10
/ 38.
773'357 Sergt. J . C. Simmonds,
29
/
10
/ 38
2650378
Sergt. G. W.
Crowe, 7/
11
/38.
To be S,
ergean
l.
7882828 L/ Sgt. R F . Soper, 10/8/ 38.
7260223 L / Sgt. J. L. James,
12
/8/38.
5616638 L/ Sgt. T. G
.1\
.
vVilliam,s, 15/8/38.
4912191 L / Sgt.
J. C. Woodthorp
e, 17/ 8/38,
404003 L /Sgt. A. E. BJackwe
ll
,
21
/ 9/ 38.
3445258 L/ Sgt . P. Lee,
20
/10/38.
To be L a n c e S
e . ~ g e a n t .
45353
05
. Cp
. VV.
G. Johnston,
12
/8/ 38.
7883178 CpJ.
J.
Brett,
19
/ 8/38.
835850 Cp
.
W.
E.
Gardn
er, 9/ 9/ 38.
6912.956
Cp
l.
H. Vincent, 24 /9/38.
552819 CpJ. S. Newby, 1/10/ 38.
317099 Cpl. A . Mackenzie, 14/10/33.
To be Corp
cral.
7262353 Pte.
C
:D Brophy, 1/8/38.
4269034 Pte. J . K. Gi c
hri st,
1/9 /38.
826879
Pte.
A.
E. MUlT
ay,
1/ 9/38.
2928271':
Pte.
J. M. Stewa
rt
, 1/9 / 38
5184453 Pte. F. Rice, 1/ 9/38
2819282
Pt
e. N. Brown, 1i 9/
38
.
4269664 Pte. R
B.
Johnsto
n,
1/ 9/38
3384444
Pte
. G. L.
Imp
ens, 1/ 9/38
7884789
Pt
e. H. D. Main, 1/9/3
8.
5436546 Pte. C. F .
K .
Long, 1/ 9/ 38
7885115 Pt e. K. W. J. Ogilvie 1/9/ 38.
2695073
Pt
e.
A.
lVlcIntosh, 1/9 /38.
82.5116
Pt
e. H . H. Lu c khul"st, 1/9/ 38.
7262913
Pte.
C. Suth erla nd , 1/ 9/38.
54894
Pte
. C. Mitc hell, 1; 9 /38.
34477;:\9
Pt
e. F. Dav ies. 20/9 /
38
.
6398204 Pt e. P . GeeWilliams ,
27
/ 10/ 38.
Rev.ersion.
1403
3()
0 S
,
Sgt. J.
Daly
reverted to the rank
of
Sgt. (at his own req ues
t), 25
/ 8 /38.
Proba
tioners
Transferred 31 /12/37. Servi ce in R..A.P.C. to
o
ount
from 1/1/38.
7884537 Pte.
J.
R D. Rob erts. RT.C.
Tra n ferred 2/5/ 38. Ser vice in
B.A.P.C. to
co unt
from 3/5 /
38
.
6141404 Pte. J.
\
iVill
l1 ,
E. S
urr
ey Rgt.
4689399
Pt
e. F. St,apleford, K.O .Y.L.I.
4745944
Pt
e. A. V. Gibbons, Loya l Rgt.
33851
1
51
Pte.
R.
Gra,y,
E.
Lancs. Rgt.
5932546
Pte.
S. J .
Russ
, R
A.
M. C.
408007 Tptr. J. H. Horton, 5th RI. Dr agoon
Gds.
554989 Tptr.
W.
R
Ho
well,
. D . G s .
4192344 Pte.
J.
B. LaDy, R Welch Fus.
815169 Gm.
S.
R W. Harris RA. . , .
5182154
Pte
. A. A. Edw ards
Gloucester Rgt.
6011076
Gill".
V . G. F. Comfort.
RA.
5569278
Pte.
R
J.
A. Boyne, Wilts .
Rgt .
68455'
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JOURNAL
7886088 Pte. D. V7. Swin dells ,
RT.C.
2695320 Gdsmn. P. McCallu rn, Scots Gds.
4G'7249 TpLr. T. Reed R Dragoons.
1885356 Pte. J. B. H emstock, H.T.C.
4914424 Pte . C. W . P earce, S. Staffs. R
gt.
Tr
ansfer
red 3/ 5/ 38. Service
in
RA.P. C. to count
from 4/5/38.
831549 Gm. J. T. C. Massey, RA.
Tran
sferred 10/ 5/38. Service in
RA.P.
C.
to
count from 1 J . / 5 / ~ 8 .
40900 T13tr. L. A. Page, 5th Dragoon
Transf erred 11/ 5/ 38. Service ill RA .P .C. to
co unt from 1'1./5/3-8.
4974879 P te. C. B .
Huxford
,
Sh'wood Foreste
rs.
295135 Tptr. W . A. Tu13hol
l11e,
Th e
Lif
e Gds.
7 6 3 3 ~ 8
Pte. A . J .
J8nes,
RA.l\/f, C.
7261353 Pt e.
H. F.
Ell i
otL
, RA.M. C.
7263407
Pt
e. P. J . Ion s, KA .1
VI.C.
2695487 Gdsmn . S. F reega rd , Sc
ots
Gds .
T r a n
r r e d
15/5/ 38. Service in th e R A. P .C. to
count from
16
/
5/38.
3529026
Pt e.
G.
J.
Kilb, Man
ches
ter Hgt.
1873895 Spr. R S.
Derri
ck. RE.
5381989 Pt e. S. Gibson,
Ox.
&
Buck
s . L.I.
6141832 Pte. S.
N.
Benest , E. Surrey R
egt.
The undermentioned join ed for training
at
Ald
ershot
on 5/9/38: -
835662 Gur . P. E. Patman.
RA.
6201375 Pt e. G. C. Adkins, '
Midd
lesex R gt.
4080'25 Bdsl11n. F. Pridmore, 5th Drag n. Gds.
6845375
Rfn.
B. S. Gr ice,
K.RR
Corps.
318960 Tpr . A . E. Cocksedge,
12 th
R
Lan ce
rs.
2876658 Pte . A. H
ay
. Gordon
Highl
and ers.
78%673 Pte. W.
G.'
Brown ,
RT .
C.
6202 163
P te. G. P . H ewson, Middlesex Rgt.
8'12831 Gdsmn. G. \ i iilli
ams.
Scots
Guards.
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W)YAL
ARMY
3. ~ e a t ~ s of CI d Comrade
s The
HOll.
Secr
etary
I epOl ted , WIth regret , th e followmg deaths since
the last meetll1g;-
116. S.Q.lYLS. \1 . .
E. Wilson,
R.A.P. C.
No. 117. H.B..H. Prlnce Arthur of Connaught
K.G.
,
K.T
., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., C. B. ;
Colonel 111 ChIef, Ro.ya l Army
Pa
y Coqr .
No. 118. Captall1
\ i
V
J.
lHllls late No
5Yl
S.Q.M.Sgt. ' ' . ,
No. 119. MI . J. Grant, late
S.Q.M.S. it
P C
an
d
M.S .C. (Aged 26.) . .
No.
Im
. Mr. A.
E.
East wood late S Q - r S
B..A.P.C. ' .
Tel
egrams and
letters of co ndol ence and wreaths
had
been sent where possible. .
4.
Items
from
the
Manage
ment
Comm
itte
e
Apphcatoons for ,ass ista nce. No. 182. Mr. C. N.
Facer-to
.whom total
pr
ev
ious gra
nts a
moun ted to
7 .
Applicant
asked
for the p'rovision of a n illva
lid
c h a l ~ and
t e e l
a doctor's cert
ifi
cate in support
of hl S app hcatlOll. t was decided to refer th e case
to the Brit ish L
eg
ion.
No. 184. Mrs. E
astwood-w
idow of the late Mr.
A. E.
E ast lvood. A
grant
of
5
was made and
the
g r a n ~ of 2 lreviously
made
I\as a p p r o v ~ d
by
the
meetll1g.
PAY
COR
P S
J
OURNAL
1 ie s . The Honorary Secretary submitted
l iS .report and supplied a deta il 'of transactions.
Subject to
receIpt
of outstanding
amoullts
from
overseas sales exceeded ICO,
and
the
Hon.
Secre
tary took pleas ure 111 handillg over a cheque for
10 , belllg part profits to date. The Cha irm an and
90m
nllt
tEe commenJ ad Major Lid sto ne on his h ' t
ful efforts. Major
Lid
stone sui tab
ly
responded
Ul
5.
Correspondence
Several
letters on t l ~ e subject
ot employment wel'e read, Incl uding one of
th
a
nk
s from SIl'
Kin
gsley
Wood
.
Letters ,of acknowledgment fo r fr amed photos
of the S
tanda
rd presentatIOn ce
remony
had b
ee
n
recel
ve el
from S11 H . C
l
eedy, Ma
jor-G
enera l
R.lley anel Colonel Armstrong
6. Other Business It was proposed by 1111 Bl'owne
a
nd
seconded
by
S.Q.i\LS. Lent that the annual
affiliatIOn fee oi 1 I s.
Od
. be
paid to the British
L
eg IOn.
Ca
rn
ed .
t
was decided to aga in refer the su
bject
of
enl'olment of R A.P .C . Supplementary Re servis ts
to
the
A
nnu
al Genera l :Jleet ing.
Th
e next, mee
tll1
g IS on
7th
Dece
mber,
1938.
G. LIDSTONE ,
Hon . Secre
tary.
RETIREMENTS
Lt.
-Col. J . .M. MacNamara,
who
retired
3Ist Aug ust, I93 8, be
ga
n his so ldiering
WIth
the
Sherwood
Foresters
in I894 .
He
t ~ a n s f e r r ~ d to
the
Corps four years later
and
hIS statlons included
Ireland, Wadey,
Egypt,
Malta, Hounslow a
nd
York .
Ma.ior
P.
C.
Hardin
g joined
th
e Devon
i r n e n t
in I 893 . H e
came to
the
Corps
111 I 89 7 and
spent
a ooo d dea l of his service
in Africa, both So uth
and
West and Ire
land.
He
is now
re
-employed at tile R ecord
and Pay
Offic e, W a n \
ick
.
-T
;H
E
R OY AL A R MY
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FUNERAL OF PRINCE ARTHUR
OF CO
NNAUGHT
On
I6th
September,
I93 8,
the fun
e
ral
of
Prince Arthur of Connaught took
place
at
Windsor, attended by the Kin
g
and
\\'ith
military
ceremonial.
Fonnino
'
Up in
th e G
reat
V
/es
t
ern
l ~ a i l -
way Station yard th e
procession
move d off
.
throu
gh
th
e sho
rt route
to '
Windsor Castle
whi
ch
was
lin ed by th e 3rd Battalion,
Gr enad
ier G u
ar
ds a
nd thr
on
ge
d \\-
ith
th ousands of people. H ead in g
th
e proces
sion were
d e
tachments
a
nd deputations
of
th e reg im en
ts
an d
formations
\\ith \\ '
hich
Princ
e
Arthur
hall
been
associated.
Th
e
deput
a tion of o ffice rs of th e R oya l Army
Pa
y Cor
ps
cons
ist
ed of Li e
ut.
-Col.
R.
G.
:8tanham,
Ma
.ior L. H . M . t ar:kenzie and
'Ca f) tai ns R ooney and l\ fa lpass
PAY CORPS J
OURNA
L
Co l
onel
G.
A.
C. Ormsby-Joh
nson,
O.
B.E
. , M .C .,
and other
officers assoc
iated
\\ith Prince
Arthur, acted
as pall
bearers.
The procession proceeded throug h the
Henry
VIII Gate\\'ay by
"'ay
of the
Lo\yer '
Ward
and the H orseshoe
Cloisters
to the
P
/O
l o by Plan et
}
' n 5 . L td
steps
and s
tat
e door of the
Chape
l of St.
Geo rge an d move d up th e na ve, which "' as
lined
by
non-commissioned
officers
and
men
of
the
R ova l
Scots Grevs and
a de
tachm
e
nt
of the Royal Army P ay Corps.
This
la
tter
det
ach
ment, dra\\,l1
from
th e Command Pay
O
ffic
e, A lder
sho
t.
consisted
of ,
.S.M
.s
Pott
and
Littler
, S.Q .
\f
.S .s
Westcott,
P eas ley
and
Davis, S /
Sg
ts.
Br
oo
ke,
Evans and
Egan
, Sg ts .
Cook and Pearce,
L /
Sgt.
Mockler
and CpL
Clark.
Th e
SC2
n e in the chapel
of
th
e
Kni ghts
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TH
E ROYAL
ARMY
of the
G arter
\\
'as one of
impressi
ve
grall(t-eur \yith \\ 'hich th e service, of austere
simp ici
y,
\yas in striking CO l
tra
st,
P lOlo by L on do n N c ~ t S Age n cy
Ph
o os Lld..
A memori a l se rvice \\ 'as held at th e same
time in
London at the Church of St. I artin
in-the-Fields which ,
vas
attended by the
Colonel Commandant,
Colonel
J. C.
Arm
str ong ,
C.B.,
C .M .C.,
Colonel
A.
S.
Herbe
rt,
M .C.,
Lt
.-Colonel s Hack and
Hackett,
Ma jor Vi
Eadie, lVr.
C., and Cap
tain W. C. Harker.
BRITISH LEGION
VOLUNT R POLICE FORCE
The
British
L eg ion P olic e F orce , I, 200
strong, \\'as formed at th e req uest of Hi s
Majesty's Government fm.. se rvi ce 111
Czechoslovakia
on a
mi
ss ion
of peace and
gooc1\yill.
It \\'as composed o f L eg ionaires of every
rank and s
tati
on in life
and
\\'as di v
ided
int o
Headquart ers and t\\ 'O divisions, under th e
PA Y CORPS JOFRN AL
COllllll8.11d of lV
fajor
S
ir
Francis Featherston
Godley. Every Area supplied
its
quota and
all parts
of Brit
ain \\'ere represe
nted.
The
R oya l
Army Pa
y
Corps
Old
Comrades
'
Association
had th e honour of supplying
t\\ 'O m e
mb
ers,
Lt.-C
ol. E.
W.
Grant
and
Mr. E. J. W. Bro \\
'ne, wh o
\\
'ere
appo
int ed
MR. E.
J
W .
BRO'X'NE.
the Paymaster and Assistant Paymaster
respec ti ve
,
Y.
Th e lllemb ers
of the Force assembled
at
Oly mpi a on Th ur
sday
, 6th O
ctober
and ,
\\'ithil1 24
hour
s ,,'ere fnll y eq
uipped, sworn
in,
:md
had receiv ed
th
eir fir st iss
ue
of
pay.
After severa
l d
ays
at Oly
mpia, ,\'her
e
they
\\'e re ill
spe
cted by Ge n era l
LiddelI,
the
Adjutant
General, th
e
Force
e
mbark
:
ed
at
Tilbur y , I 2th, Octobe r, Headquarters and
2nd
Divisio n on
the N
a ldera
and
Ist
Divisi
on on
Dl111
era . Lt.-Co l. Grant
\\ 'as
N aldera
, Pa ymas te
r and
Mr.
Br o\\'ne Dullera Pa y mas ter .
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vVe sailed bearing \\ 'ith lIS the goo d\\'i1l of
the
whole L
eg
ion
and anchored
o
ff South
end to a \\ 'ait instructions . T\\ 'o da
ys
later,
as
everyone kno\\
's,
orders \\
'ere received
that th ere ,,' ould be no plebiscite and th e
F orce
\\
'
as
to return to Tilbury a
nd
de
mobilize.
Then
began a bu sy time for the
eve ry member of the F orc e had received a
cheque
for
his
final
settlement and
Col.
Grant had
re
ndered
a
fina
l
statement, show
ing a full" complete
and accnrate account
of all our
tran
sacti ons.
Valuable
assistance
\\
'as rend ered bv t\\
'O
members of
the British Le
g ion Staff' fr om
BRlT
l SH
LEGIO
N
POLICE FO
RCE
Inspection by Lt.-Genera Sir James O'Dowda sho'wi ng (third from right) Lieut. ,Col. E. W , Grant, R.A.P.C. (ret'd,)
Paymasters,
wh o
had
to devise a
pay
sys
tem to s
uit
th e
peculiar
situ ati on of a F orce
fo
rm
ed
and
di
sba nd
ed
in
t\\ 'elve days, with
allotments
pa
id
to the men' s families
and
pay
issu ed wh eneve r
required;
but I am
proud
to
say
th a t
th
e, old R .A.
P.
C. were
eq
ual to
th
e
occas
ion
and \\
'
ithin
a \"
eek
3
6
9
Hai g H Olse , Messrs . H o \\ 'es and n n i n
\\
'ho were a ttach ed during th e
\\
'hole peri od.
In co nclu sio
n,
it can be
truly
sa
id
that
the
whole orga
ni
zati on of th e F orce \\'a s
an
arnazing lesson, \\'h ich \\'ill surely appeal
to
all
those
ready to rend er
\\
'illing service ill
a tim e of n t i ~ n l en1ergency. E. J .\ iV.B.
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J OURNAL
Our Chess Page
Foreword
F
IRST of all, Christmas greetings to all readers of
these columns and m
ay
the
New
Year bring them
prosperity, in chess and otherwise.
The new editorial policy whereby our chess effer
ve scence alternates half-yeflrly with that of our Bridge
friends (we believe ao appreciable proportion of
readers take interest in. both) renders continuity of
thought
along prescribed lines somewhat difficult. As
a consequence we deem it wiser to make each con
tribution self-contained, rather than attempt to
serialize our considerations. A half-promise, there
fore, made on our last appearance to discuss examples
of an "open " and "close" opening is not strictly ful
filled. Instead, however, we give two short game
examples co
ntr
asting the two different styles in open
ing tactics.
Game
No
51
A "Scotch" opening, typical of the open game.
Blackburn used to say the beginner could learn more
real chess from this opening than from any other.
1. PK4
1.
PK4
2. KtKB3 2. KtQB3
3. PQ 4
The
move which distinguish es the opening.
3. PxP
4. KtxP
This constitutes the Scotch "Game" , the alternative
4. BQB4 being termed the Scotch "Gambit".
4. QR5
5. KtQB3
6. QQ3
7. KtxKt
8. BQ2
9. BxB
10.
QQ
4
11. Castles (QR)
12. PB4
A very neat trap.
plays KtxB.
5. BKt5
6. KtB3
7.
QPxKt
8. BxKt
9. KtxP
10 .QK2
11. QKt4cb
f BQ2 at once, Black naturally
12. QxBPch
13 . BQ2 13. QKt5
KtxB being no w impossible.
14. QQ8ch' 14. KxQ
15. BKt5 dbl. cb. 15. KK1
16. RQ8 Mate.
A game
wo
n
by
Baron Kolisch many y e a r ~ ago.
Game
No
52
White. Blac
k.
Spielm a
n.
Stolz.
French
Def
enc e.
1.
PK
4 1.
PK
3
This move gives the opening its name.
2. PQ4
2.
PQ4
3.
KtQ2 3. KtKB3
4. PK5
4.
KKtQ2
5.
BQ3 5.
PQB
4
Tbe key m ve in handling this
cl
ose defenc
e.
It
must al wa ys be played befo
re
KtQB3.
6. PQB3 6. KtQB 3
7. KtK 2 7. QKt 3
Bl ac k has now reached a typical "Fr ench" dis
position of bis forces. Notice tb at in contrast to
the open game, each player develops hi s pieces be
hind rather than in front of his pawns.
8. KtB 3 8. PxP
9. PxP 9. BKt5ch
10. KBl
A bold move based on the
co
nsideration that his
centre is strong enough to justify this awkward
avoidance of exchanges.
10. PB3
Another typical French move, wbich like
PQB4
atta
ck
s
White
's centre .from the flank s.
11. KtB4
N ot PxP , KtxP which
would relieve Black.
11. PxP
12. KtxKP
12. PK5
13. BKB4
Both players are forcing the pace and out
win.
This
threatens BB7 winning the Queen.
13. PxKt
But Black doesn' t mind
14. BB7 14. KtB3
15. KtxPch
for a
Played before the
Qu
ee n capture to prevent Black
from cading.
15. KB2
16. BxQ 16. BKt5
Note
now all three
White
pieces are en prise.
Black is pl aying to obtain three nieces
for
the
Quee
n,
adequate compe
ns
ation in such a position.
17.
PKKt3
Space does not permit of analysis of other variations
but
they will all be found to favour Black.
17. BR6ch
18. KKt l
18. KxKt
19. BB 7
19. KRK1
20. BK5
f 20. QxP, KtxP ; 21. QB4,
RK5; 22.
QKt5ch,
KB2 and White 's pos ition
is
hopeless.
20. KtxB
21.
PxKt
2
1.
RxP
22. QKt3
22. BQB4
23. BB5
Desperately play
ed
24. QxR, KtKt5 w
in
s.
f
23.
QxKtPch, RK2 ;
37
0
23. BxB
24. KKt3
25. RK7
26. BxPch
24. QxKtPch
25. QxR
26. PKR4
27 . KB1 27. BQ6
28. PR5ch
28. KKt4
29. Resigns.
A splendid game by Black,
prov
ing that even
Close game can take on a very lively aspect.
Christmas Curiosities
the
(1) Tbe following o
nc
e occurred in a Scottish
championship Tourney : 1.
PK4
, PQ4; 2.
PxP
, QxP .
Her
e
White
intending to play 3. KtQB3, absent
mindedly placed his Knight on
QKt 3.
Black, strictly
Continued
o
p
lge 374.)
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By Cap
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C. TH OMAS .
oncluded
tr
om page 324. )
T
H E first byo portions of thi s article
have dealt with the more spectacular
incid
ents
around
Shanghai and
I ha
ve
ma
.
d.e
no reference to
fi
g
htin
g in other
parts
of t.
he
count ry.
By August
28
th, the Japanese had
mana
ged to reinforce
their
troops in
Hong
ke w, had control of the mouth of the
Ya ngtse and held
the
who le of
the Whang
poo as far as Shanghai itself.
Chine
se forces 'were
established
on
the
right banl
of
the latter river
but,
beyond
sniping at Japanese warships
and
looting
enemy propert
y
in
this area, i '
ere
unable
to do much.
Th
e Japanese
had
effected a landing in
the vicinity of Woo sun g and held a little
g
round, in
some places only one
or
hundr
ed
ya rds in depth along the left
bank
of
the
vVhan
gpoo.
t
was
a very precarious
hold
for some time since the Chin ese put
up
a very o ood show and resisted s
tr
ongly.
f
their
plans
had
not been p
ut
into oper
ati on prematurely and
th
ey had had more
gUllS and
A.A.
facilities who knows what
would have been the situ ation at the pre
sent moment
Th
e bombardment of Woosun g itself,
Chapei, the Civic Centre and Kiangwa n
rac ecours e continued daily . Planes b o ~ b e d
the Chinese positi ons hourly
and the
so
unds
of war were a co
nstant
accompaniment of
our daily avocations.
Numerous
casualties were caused by
stray
projectiles fa lling
in the Settlement
and
Concession, making one cons cious
that
death
or hurt
were liable to
occur
at
any
time.
By
thi
s
tim
e
numerous
Chinese hospitals
had
opened in
Shanghai
and, each
ni
g
ht,
lorry loads ,,-ere to be seen arriving. These
wounded were only th ose 'V
ith
some chance
of recovery. The Chinese appeared to have
no
equiv alent to our R.A.M.C . nor were
there
any
Chinese doctors 'w
ith
the
front
line tr oops It is to be feared that
the
number
of wounded who
were
actually
evacuated, represented but a very small per
cent
age of
the
actual casualties .
371
Th e Chinese Boy S
cont
s
any
of th em
tin y little follo\\'s- clid their share and
more than
their
share, of the work of assist
ing
th
e wounded and deserve every praise.
Th e Japanese had by September 12th
effected a sufficient concentration of troops
and sup plies and had obtained a sufficiently
close grip on W oosung and its environments
to warrant their commencing a ge neral
ad vance
along
their whole position. It
was
essential that the y should join forces with
their troops at
H o
ngkew and near Chape
i.
Once this had been effected it wou ld be
possible to carry
on
the
a
dvance
West
in
ord er to threaten the rear of the Chinese
posi tions
around Shanghai.
ANOT
H ER PHOTO OF THE
BOMBING
OF
PAL
ACE HOTEL.
I should ha ve mentioned
that,
by this
time,
th
ere had been
several
abortive
da
y
and night air ra ids by Ch inese planes on
the
Japanese warships
and
positions
near
the
Whan
gp
oo .
When thi
s occurred at
night,
the sce
ne
was reminiscent of a fire work dis
pla y at
the
Crystal Palace, for "tracer" bul
lets ' from machine guns and artillery
appeared
to
be proceedin g towards every
point of
the
compass. S
tandin
g
at
a w
indow
of the S
han
ghai
Club
one someh ow go t an
impression of colossal "wind-up"; for the
am ount of a
mmunition expended appeared
to be out of all proportion to the
amount
of
harm to be
anticipated
from the Chinese
airplanes. Most dan ge r was lik ely to come
to
non-combatants
"for what goes up must
come dovv n"-usually
in the
Settlement
and
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count
the da
y to
day details
of the stru gg le
for
Shan
ghai. Suffice
it
to say the Chinese
held
their positions '
with
g reat bravery and
hov, they survived the incessant bombing
and
shellin
g was a source of \\'onderment
and admiration to all.
All
the same, the Japanese advanta ge in
g
uns
and their
absolute
mastery of the air
pro ved
too much
for
the Chine::e
even
though sheltered by their concrete pill
boxe
s .
At times it appeared
likel
y that the
Chinese would make Hong ke\\' untenable
for
the Japanese, indeed
011 se v
eral
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The Japanese spokesman
stated
that (this
time) they
did not
intend
to take
undue ad
vantage
of
the incident
but a
recurrence
would mean stronger measures.
The following
day,
the
Japanese
en
deavoured to
march throu
g h
the
French
concession as
far
as Nantao. This,
how
ever,
"vas not permitted by the French
authorities s i n ~ e
the
Concession is
lega
lly
French
territory
and the
Japanese had
to
relinquish the idea.
'Vhile
the
prohibition has
since
been
re
laxed by mutual agreemen , every Japanese
vehicle
passing
throug h the French Con
cession
must have a
permit, carry
no arms
and
have
a
Police escort
Since then
things
ge nerally have become
much more normal
and it
is to be hoped that
soon Shanghai \Nill forget the "undeclared
\"ar" .
OUR
CHES
S
P GE
con tinue from page 370.)
enforc ing the existing rule, insisted on the
Knight
being replaced on its original square and the White
King being mcved instead. Hence there followed
3.
KK2
,
QK5
Mat e, probably the sh
or
test T ou rna-
ment.
game
ever pla yed. Incidentally, it may
be
m ~ n t l O n e d that
thiS lega l compulsion to move the
King has recently been abolished. The law hers now
been amended to read that in the case of an illegal
~ o v e
the
p l e c ~
n:
oved ~ l u S t
make a legal riio
ve
Instead.
If
thiS
S
Imposs ible any o
ther
piece or
pawn
may be moved.
374
(2) The following position has the added interest
tha t it arose in an off-hand game pl ayed in March
1917, in a
Church Army Hut
near Arras. >
White
has pursued a sacrificial
lin
e
in the
Evans.
Gambit, but
with
his opponent"s last m
cve of
. . .
KtQ5 , attacking the Queen and the pinned Knight
simultaneously, Black appears to have turned
the
tables.
~ o w e v e r
there foll owe d :
1.
PK5 KtxQ
2.
PxB
dls.ch. KB1, 3. BK7ch
KtxB
, 4.
PxKtch
' KK1,
5. KtxP
Mate. Subsequent analysis proved
PK5 to
win in other variations also.
(3).
In th e above position White played BR6 and upon
Black replying with KRK1,
White
resigned in
view
of
the
Queen
pin. He could , however
have
won by the following:-
1.
BxPch
KxB
, 2.
RBlch KKt1
, 3. RB8ch RxR ,
4.
QKt7 Mate
solution to Problem No 26.
This is an old favourite the orig in of which is un
know n to us.
The
sa me idea has been varic usly
clothed,
but perhaps
thi s is its most bea
utiful
forni.
Th e main variation runs: 1. PQ6 QxP , 2. RB7ch
(this is the difficult move to fin d) BxR , 3. BB4 QxB ,
4.
KtQ5ch
BxKt Stalemate. There are many othet
weaker
lines for Black, which we will leave to readers.
to explore, except t o mentio
n:
if 2
...
KKt3,
3.
RB
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By F . G. Gill-Houghton (formerly N o. 568 S.Q.M.S., R.A.P.C. ).
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N 1903
\yhen
I "vas serving in the Cardiff
Pay Office, a telegram
from
the War
Office arrived. . It read "Does Staff
Sergeant Gill-Houghton volunteer
for
immediate service in Somaliland. f so have
him
medically examined,
wire reply."
He did volunteer and everything being
satisfactory, within
a
da
y or
two found him
self reporting
at
the War Office. Colonel
R.
M. Ireland
and
'
Mr. Bruce wer
e
both
kno
wn to me . I was clerk to the former
when he was
Field
Paymaster
at
S
tanderton,
in the
Transvaal, in 1900
and Mr. B r u c
was S.S.M.
at
Wool\
,vich
when
I joined
th
e
Corps in 1895. To this day I remember
the
words
Colonel
Ireland
spoke \ i
hen bidding
me
farewell.
"You are to be the only representat:ve
of the
A.P .C. out
there
, I rely on you
not
to let the Corps down
.
On October 2nd
I
embarked
at
Tilbm
y
on the P
0
steamer "Britannia" and first
met
my nev,' chief, Captain A. A. L Col
lard, A.P.D. The voyage was, I suppose,
much like
other
voyages
and
I enjoyed every
day of it excepting, perhaps, a following
wind
in
the Red
Sea, .which made
the
ship
like a furnace. On arriving at Aden we
transhipped
to a small stea
mer.
ovvned by
Messrs.
Cowasjee, Dinshaw Bros., \yhich
took
us across to Berbera. There were
about 8 white officers and myself accom
modat
ed
on the
"Bridge" while the lower
deck
was
crowded with she
ep, camels
and
natives, mostly seasick. However, I slept
all night so this did not \\ 'o
rr
y me.
Berbera is a
freak
The original
coast
lin e is 8 or 9 rniles inland and in some con
vu
ls
ion
of nature a plain, lTlostly coral rock ,
ha s been thrown up.
This
contains a pear
shaped gap which
is
the harbour and th
e
only one for lTliles on either side. The
,,,,hole of this grea t plain is practically bare
but th e Civil authorities had employed
prisoners in digging lar ge holes at
various
points
and
filled these holes with earth
brou
g
ht from
the interior.
These \"ere
planted with mimosa, palms, etc., and the
result is a very pleasing oas is in th e sur
roundin
g desert.
As soon as \ye landed \ve were surrounded
by a yelling crowd of "boys" seeking
em
ployment and brandishing papers in our
faces. To this day I remember one of those
"Recommendations". It read :
, Ali
is
the biggest thief in Somaliland
and
I hope
whoever
reads
this
will
kick him
for
me." We were lucky
in
getting a Pathan,
who
could speak a fair
amount
of
English
and who had
served,
as a camp follov, er, in
the Boer War. Indeed,
in
after conversa
tion, it transpired
that
he and
I
must have
been at
Standerton, in
19 00
at the
same
time .
We had now to see about tents , o'ffice
and
camp
equipment and, thanks
to
the
great
kindness of the Army Ordnanc.e COl1)S,
this
was soon
settled. I
had an
Indian
"Staff
Sergeant's" tent, half the size of a marquee
and,
thanks
again to
the A.O.C.
it was
spon
pitched and, what was
more
important,
furnished. For office
we
had a room in
OBe
of
the
Civil Staff
buildings. Our
staff
PART
OF THE OFFIC
IAL BUILDINGS.
(The
th atched rocfed house on the
right
was the first
Residency. )
\\'as Captain Collard, myself, a native Indian
clerk (who came later on)
ou
r Pathan mes
senger and a
punkah
wallah.
Just
after
we landed the PO\\'ers-that-be decided that
all
the British
reg
iments
which
had
come
from
India and
we
re , th erefore,
011
Indian
pay, were to be transferred to the British
Es
tab lishment.
Then
Captain Collard wa
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Officer
and ha\l
.to P
:llX
all
Indian imprests,
so
it
may be
llllagJl1ed ,ye
had our hands
full.
Captain
Coliard applied for
and
\yas g
ranted
extra duty
pay for his double duties
but
an
application
for so
mething extra
for
myself
met
with
a decided ne
ga
tive .
. I scarcely remember which
\\ as
hottest
{)ut there-night
or
day--but it
seemed to
suit
us
and
neither Captain Collard nor my
self
had
a
day
off
through sickness.
At
one
season of the
year
a wind, called
"Kharif"
started to blow and eve ryone " 'ho could do
so
scuttled inland to Sheikh or Burao.
I
do not kno\\- why
but
we decide to remain
.
at Berbera and stick it out.
One example -will shovv
'
'Kharif ' ' was lik
e.
My
cook
about
20
yards from my tent
w
hat this
house \vas
and
a
boy
A
SOMALI
BRIDE
AND
BRIDEGROOM
.
starting with. an unc overed p lat eful of soup
,yould arrive
\\
ith a p lateful of sand .
Ano
th
er plag ue at one season of
th
e year
"'as
fiies ;
the
y
fl
ouri shed
in
milli ons ,
\\-e
re
a t r e e n d o u ~ nui sance and then, quite
suddenly, vamshed
and
\\ e
were left
in
com
parative
peace.
The
l I ? n o t o n ~
?f
our lives was broken by
an o c c a s l O n ~ 1
V1S1t
of one of
H.M.
Ships,
\
\-hen the
sa110rs usuall y \\"anted a
o-a
me of
cricket.
This
was played on the "J\1aidan"
on a matting \Vicket \\'earing sun helmets
(\\'e,
not the
" 'ickets)
and in
a
temperatur
e
of about 120
0
- b u t it ahvays seemed hotter
than that
The harbour
simply swa rmed with fish
(including sharks) and
we
had good sport
a ~ t e r sunset. Sometimes,
amid
great ex
CItement, we
\\
ould see a shade
or
a
o-
iant
ra y killed by one of
the
civilians
and
l a ~ d e d
by a swa rm of yelling So
malis.
One day we
had
news of a consio-nment
of
Maria Theresa dollar
s
was
c o m i ~
over
and
\\le
had
to receIVe,
count and repack
them so as to travel by camel. These coins
are all
dated
(I
think)
1798, a re somev.,
hat
large r
than
a five s hilling piece and made of
a
very inferior
g rad e of silver.
For
some
reason the Abyssinians
\Vo
uld not take
En
glish
or Indian currency but
insist ed o
n.
th ese. coins. Th ere
\\
-ere 2g,000 of th em and
I th:nk they must have received 2g,000
ble ss
l11
gs to take up country \V ith them.
One of the g reat troubles in the int erior
was s
upplyin
g the troops
\\I
ith \\'a ter, which
had to be carried in tanks slun g on each side
of a camel. So maliland is practically a
waterl
ess
countr
y b
ut
experts
\v
ho had been
sent on t reported t
hat there
was plenty of
\\
'ater
under
g r
ound and proceeded
to s
ink
\Yells .
Th
en
th
ey found the \\-ater wou ld
ha
e
to be pumped to the surf ace and cabled
t o
En g
land for th e necessary
apparatus.
Th e yarn go es that the cable read : -"Please
se
nd three Pars
ons
pum
ps
",
meaning
the
pu
mp s named after the inventor of th e tur
bine.
How
ever, someone
at the other end
in decodin g , omitted the last \
'ord and,
dl1
e co
ur
se ,
th
ere arri ved
at
Berbera
Chaplain
s -C. of E., one
Do.
-R.C. ,
one
Do.
--Presbyterian, one
to
th
e g reat delig
ht
of all of us,
exc
e
ptin
g
perhaps the chaplains vvho were generally
znowll as
the Pumps. Anyhow,
jf
thi
s
yarn
1S not authentic (which I believe it to be )
then all I
can
say is,
It
oug
ht
to be
".
Ju
st belovi our office was a hu ge ci rcular
wa.te r
tank.
used mornin
g
and
evening
by
a l11111 a1s, chtefly camels. All convoys g oing
to a
nd
comin g
fro111
Berbera
lrl
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Somali seems not to be entirely happy un
less he can-
yen
his
head
off.
At
Berbera we had a fairly large num
ber of native troops, Indians, Somalis and
Africans. I
put it
in this way because the
male Somali is a most conceited creature
and would not mix with other
Africans. So
they had to / be in separate units. There
were several fights, some serious, betwee ).
these various peoples, when the White
troops would arm
themselves
with sticks
or
guns
and wedge in between the opposing
forces,
banging
each side with
impartialit
y
on
the
shins.
After the battle of Jidballi, early in 1904,
it
became
apparent that the
Mad
Mullah's
followers had dispersed into the interior and
that
operations would come to
an
end.
Well, at last we embarked in Berbera
harbour. It
was
on
a
B.I. boat,
a
contrast
to the stately P 0 which had
brought
us
out, but
we were
going
home, so
who
cared.
The
only happenings on the voyage were a
stoppage at M a l t a ~ w h e r e
I nearly broke
myself buying Maltese lace and
cur ios-anJ
another stoppage
in
mid-Mediterranean due
to a ~ a k down in the engine room.
We
4uly
hoisted
the signal "Not under control"
'bi.1t we
w.e
re in a dense fog so perhaps it was
as well no
other
vessel appeared. As we
left Malta the Mediterranean F1eet were
comin
g
in and in
those days
it
was a
sight
worth seeing. They were in two long lines,
about
half a mile
apart and
we a tiny dot
between them.
We
duly landed in London and were given
an
office
in
Victoria
Street
to clear
up the
accounts
. By
the
way, when the
B.I.
boat
came
to
take us
home, we
had no
previous
warning
but
banged every book and paper
into boxes, nailed them up and
took
them
on
board with us. I think I am right in
saying
we
had
no
"Observations" on the
Account and I remember one morning a
very genial
gentleman
from
the War
Office
(Mr. Barge I
think
it was) coming down to
Victoria Street
and
congratulating
Captain
Collard and his "staff" on their '\
l
ork.
Another
recollection is of people
admiring
the
colour of my face, hands, etc. , which I
think
were a deep
mahogany.
Then
Captain Collard and I
parted and
I
have never since seen him.
He
gave me a
beautiful pair
of Silver Candlesticks
"suit
ably inscribed" as a memento of our "
vo
rk
toge
ther.
These
are on my desk as I write
and are treasured by
me.
377
I hav e served
unckr many
A .P.D. officers
during my 24 years in the A.P.C. but
superior to all, I value my recollections of
Captain
CO
l11ard . Probably much of the
smoothness of my life in Berbera
and the
comforts I enjoyed were due to him and I
shall ever remember my
tour
of service
with
him as a very pleasant and happy one.
At lT HILLS.
Now for my second tour. In January,
Ig0g , I was serving
at Preston v.
,
hen another
War
Office telegram arrived identical with
that of
Ig03,
except
for
the change
of
rank.
Quite a number of my
colleagues
suggested
that,
as I ohviously would
not
wan t to go
to such an
unpleasant country
a second time,
the y ou t of the goodness of their h e a r t
would o instead. I
could
not, hov.;ever,
permit such a sacrifice (on their part) and
so , having duly passed the Medical exam
ination,
I found myself
again bound
for
London. On reporting
at
the
War
Office I
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was
told that
I was the
only A.P.C.
rnan
going, that Captain F. Woodall ,vas the
paymaster
and
that we were to go overland
to
Brindisi, of course in plain clothes. Inci
den
ally,
this
was the
last time I saw
Colonel
(later
Sir)
R. M. Ireland,
w
ho died during
the Great
War, although
I received several
letter
s
from
him
after my return home in
1910. He was g ruff but
underneath
"vas a
very kind
heart.
May
he rest
in peace.
The following Friday evening m y o d
friend S.Q.M.S. Kenneth Bain saw me
off
at
Charing
Cross Station
and I met my travel
ling companion Conductor Donnelly,
A.O.C.
We
had a t wo
berth compartment
on
the luxurious P & 0 Express.
The
Channel
was
pleasantly calm and
the
journey
across
France, through
Switzerland
and down to the
heel
of Italy was
a revel
ation to me. I don't know which I enjoyed
most
,
the early morning sight of the Alps
or the
Sunday
journey down
the length of
the
Italian East Coast,
generally in
sight of
the Adriatic. At Brindisi we embarked on
the Isis
and
proceeded to
Port
Said where
we
caught
the
P
& 0 steamer which had left
Tilbury the Friday
previous to
our
depar
ture.
On
arrival at
Aden
ve
transhipped
to the
same Cowasjee
boat and made a
s
imilar voyage durin
g
the night to Berbera
.
There
was
a g reat improvemen t in the
appearance of
the
town since my last visit.
N evv and imposing buildings
for
the
civil
staff had been erected,
the gar
dens
had
spread
until
the houses
appeared
to be sur
rounded by green and, last but not least,
Messrs.
Cowasjee had
built a lar
ge store
where practically everything one needed
could
be purchased.
One
of
the
firm, a
Mr.
Dinshaw ,
was
in charge and I had a lot of
dealings
with him, official and un official.
Official,
becau
se
he
was
the Banker and uni
versal as provider for
th
e Officers up
country.
As
soon as we landed
we were
fortunate
in
engaging a one armed Native as Chup
rassi.
He
could speak
English, Hindustani
and Somali, with a smattering of French
and
we soon discovered he
could do as much
w
ith his one arm as
many
others
w ith t wo.
We
were
given a t wo -roomed
hut,
close to
the camel tank,
as
an
office
and
I
turned one
of the rooms
into a bedroom
for myself.
Thanks to the generous kit provided by the
Crown Agents for
the
Colonies, I
had
a bed,
table, chair and
all
sorts of clothing suitable
to the
climate.
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37
8
Our
office
work this time
was
not
so
strenuous as in 1903. In addition to the
White troops
there were a
large number of
special service officers
and
special service
N.C.O.'s of
the A.S.C. all of whom
had
to
be
paid and
their
accounts transmitted
home.
General
John
Gough, V.C., was
in
com
mand and
I believe there were over a dozen
V.C.'s in the Field
Force so
that what it
lacked in
quantity
it made up in quality.
The
civil officials
were
most
kind
to
us
and
I
remember with pleasure
the
dealings
I
had with them,
especially with
the then
Colonial Sec retary.
We again remained at Berbera
all
throu gh
the
harif
and again Major
Wood
all ,
who
was promoted Staff Paymaster on 1st May,
1909, and
myself go
t
through
without being
a day a
way
from the office
through
sickness.
My
final
job
was to
check
Conductor Do
n
nelly's hu ge A.O.C. receipt and
issue led
ger
prior to his go
in
g home . I did this sitting
in my bath
(as
it
"vas th e
hottest'part
of
the
year) and, according to tradition checked
a
nd ticked every
entry. I was t ~ l
after
\\"ards that a proportion wo
uld
have satisfied
the Colonial Sec retar
y
but that they
"w
ere
pl
eased
th e job had
been
thoroughly
done
. '
"
THE
KNF.ELlNG
FIGURE IS
NOT ME I
The show
closed
down and
I returned
to
Aden
to
await
a P
&
0
steamer.
I
remained
there four or
five
days
and
this was
made
very pleasant by the kindness of Mr. Din
sha
w
who lent me his
gharri to view the
sig
hts
of Aden and its neighbourhood.
My reward
for
the two shows was
the
East
African G.S. Medal with two clasps
Somaliland
I902-3-4
and Somaliland
I908
-9-1 0" with the added distinction of
being the
only
man
in
the
Corps to be able
to
wear them
.
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ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS JOURNAL
Some years after
I
read how the Royal
Air Force had smashed
up
the Mad Mullah
killin
g
him
and
most of his
forces
within
few days ,
at
a total cost of a few hundred
pounds.
To
return
to our journey. We joined the
P & 0 Persia
about
8th
March left
her
at Port Said a n ~ travelled
by
the tender
Isis (or
Osiris )
to
Brindisi where
we
joined the
P
&
0
train
for Calais. I
had
two
travelling
companions
in my
compart
ment
this time,
a Colonel
and
a
Major of the
Indian
Army going home on leave. We
tossed
up who should have one
side of
the
compartment to himself and I won. I have
often wondered
if
they
had
any
idea of
my
status; if they had they concealed
it
very
successfully and treated
me
with the utmost
courtesy. The Seine had been in flood dur
ing
the
winter and it
was
interestin
g to see
the marks of the flood
water
up to and
sometimes above
the first
storey
w
indow
s of
the houses on the various
islands
.
Within
practically
one week I was in
Aden (at the hottest time of th e yea r ) and
landipg
at Dover
(with th e
gro und
covered
with snow). At Dover
I
parted
from
Major
WoodaU,
who
was visiting
friends
in the
neighbourhood, . and
proceed
to the
War
Office to
report.
From
th
ere I was
sent
on
leave and informed that as I had
been
seconded
to
the
Colonial
c)
ffice I was
super
numerar
y and
could
select any station I
wished.
I chose
Che
.ster.
where
I had go
ne in lC)04
on my return from
th
e first
show
and have
been there ever
since,
excepting
f
or
a couple
of years in German East
Africa
from IC)I7
to
1919 w
hich
was
only
an
interlu
de.
In conclusion,
I am
v
'o
nderin
g if
perhaps
I
have mixed things up
between
what
happened
in
the
first show
and
in
the
second. If so I expec t they are mostly trivial
and
may perhaps
be
pardoned
a
fter
a lapse
of behveen thirty
and
forty years. I ha ve
never
kept
a
diary
(at
least not after the
first "
leek in
January)
and
I ha ve therefore
relied
on my memory and the
few relics of
my Somali experiences I
have
kept.
I
trust the
foregoing
may
be
of
interest
to old and new members
of the
Royal Army
Pay Corps, to one and all of whom I
send
my fraternal greetings and best
wishes for
the
success
of the Corps
and of them-what
ever part
of
the world they may
be in.
379
OBITU RY
Colone l S ir John
Edward
Stanley
:.VIaclure,
Baronet, late of the Army Pay
Department,
died
suddenly
at his residence
in
West
Byfleet,
Surrey, on 16th November,
1938,
aged
69.
Sir John,
\\'ho joined
the Manchester
Regiment in 1890,
became
the
second
baronet on the death of
his
father, Sir John
Vi.
Maclure, M.P., in
1901. .
An accident on the rifle range in India re
s
ulted
in
the
loss of a leg
and under the
special
circumstances,
the ~ r y allo,vecl
him
to
transfer
to
the Department
w
ithout
the
necessary
qualifying
service, in 1894. -
He retired,
w
hen Command Paymaster
.
Sco
ttish Command, in
1913,
but
vvas re
employed
f
or
the duration of the Great War.
* * *
The
death occurred
at Edinburgh
on 25th
August,
1938, of
J. Grant
(late S.Q.M.S.,
No. 95),
aged
86 .
The
deceased j o i n ~ d
the
'
North Stafford Regiment at Birmingham in
1875
and
se
rved
wi
th them
for
almost
fif
teen years. Subsequently
he
spent
about
three years
as
M.S
:
Clerk and
was five
years
with the Army Pay Corps.
His date of
dis
charge
was 30
th
June , 1898.
* * *
W. J. Mills (late S.Q.M.S., No. 59I),
who died
at Balham, Lond
o
n, S.W.,
on 2nd
October,
I938, was 66
years
of age. He
joined
th
e service
in
1891 and served about
fo
ur
yea rs
\\
ith the
R oyal Inniskilling
Fusiliers before transferring to the Corps.
His
fifteen
years in th
e
Corps included
a
tour
in Ma
lta .
*
*
*
The death occurred at
Thorntol1
Heath,
Surrey, on 27th October, 1938, qf W. C. H.
Jones
at the
age
of
62.
The
deceased
joined
the
G louces ter
Re
g iment in Jul y, I895, and
served. with them for two years.
He
W;lS,
" 'i
h the Corps
for
over
h\"en ty yea rs and
was S.Q.M.S. at the date
of
hi s discharg'e
in
I917.
His Numbe
r was 658 .
* * *
A.
E. Eastwood (late S.Q lVI.S . , No.
7657518) died at Chatham, aO'ed 55 yea rs,
on
28t h
October
, 1938.
The
deceased en- '
li
sted in
L
ondon in
1915
and
was dis
ch ar
ged, after twenty-on
e
years
' ser vice
in
the Corps, on 2nd April, 1936. During
the
Great he served in France and Turkey,
for a
lmost
a year
in
each
place,
and he was
on th e Rhin e for a furth er
four
years.
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C
ORP5
NOTES
AND
NEWS.
Home
Stations
ALDERSHOT
.
CO
MMAND PAY OFFICE
L /
Sgt
. C.
Reeves
h
as joined
from
Ca
n
te rbm
y
and S.Q.M.S . A. Barlow and Sgt . C. P. Barling
have t.aken
their
. discharge, whilst L / Sgt.
G. H.
Cave has
transferred
to the
Army
Reserve.
Sgt.
G D.
Egan and
L /
Sgt.
J . G.
Woodthorpe
have been promoted Staff
Sergeant
an d
Sergeant
respectively and Gm. J . T. C. Ma ssey
ha 3
u-ans
{erred to
the
Corps.
A new course began at th e P ay School on 2ntl
November , 1938 when
twenty probation
ers joined
for instruction.