. The History of the Maidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) : by Frederick J. Wood. mpanies. E. J, Harris, ,The Advent of of the headquarters staff at Aldershot,Sergeant=riajor was appointed instructor to the Corn-Harris. , ^ panies in May, 1903. He came with the highest credentials for service both at home and abroad,and has since proved himself a worthy successor to ourfirst instructor. The Companies have been very fortunatein this respect, for the success or failure of a VolunteerCorps depends to a very large extent upon the tact andability of its in
. The History of the Maidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) : by Frederick J. Wood. mpanies. E. J, Harris, ,The Advent of of the headquarters staff at Aldershot,Sergeant=riajor was appointed instructor to the Corn-Harris. , ^ panies in May, 1903. He came with the highest credentials for service both at home and abroad,and has since proved himself a worthy successor to ourfirst instructor. The Companies have been very fortunatein this respect, for the success or failure of a VolunteerCorps depends to a very large extent upon the tact andability of its instructor. The camp was held at Netley, covering a period oftwo weeks in August. Much useful instruction wasobtained in the wards of the Royal Victoria visit was made more interesting from the fact thatseveral of our members were at that time employed inthe Hospital. The Companies were busily engaged in The Monckton Maidstone on August 31st, 1903, when Drill Hall. the Lord Mayor of London (Sir Marcus Samuel), accompanied by the LadyMayoress and his Sheriffs in full civic state, laid the. E. J. Harris. Maidstone Companies, (Vols.) 41 foundation stone of the Monckton Drill Hall, so namedin honour of the founder of the Companies. The LordMayor also unveiled a tablet erected in the MaidstoneMuseum to commemorate the services of MaidstoneVolunteers who took part in the South African War, ofwhom by far the largest number were members of theMaidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps(Volunteers). The funds for the drill hall had beenraised in various ways. The handsome sum of ^600 wascontributed by the Kent County Council, largely owingto the efforts of Major F. S. W. Cornwallis. Theremainder had been raised by means of donations fromfriends of the corps, and by the efforts of the men them-selves in the form of entertainments, an assault-at-arms,and a grand sale of work and exhibition of war cost of the present land and buildings was abou
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