Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfeldt Applin, D.S.O., of the British Army, will address the members of Military Science 1 and 2 in the New Lecture Hall on next Monday evening, May 6, at 8 o'clock. Attendance will be compulsory, and the companies will fall in in their usual places at 7.45 to march to the lecture. The mid-week talk by Lieutenant Morize will be held as usual on Wednesday night.
Colonel Applin is a soldier of many years' experience, having entered the British North Borneo Service as a cadet in 1889. He was in the Syed and Mat Salleh Rebellion, and was later a captain of the Sixth Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, in the South African War.
Since the opening of the present war he has been closely connected with the British Army in Flanders, and has lately been advanced to the rank of colonel. He has twice been mentioned in dispatches and has been honored with the Distinguished Service Order.
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