A portion of the Volunteer Training Corps of the County
of Surrey, now numbering about twelve thousand men, took part on Bank Holiday in a most interesting field day on Eanmore Common, under the command of General Sir Josoeline Wodehouse, and were afterwards inspected by the Lord-Lieutenant. Some five battalions, numbering close on four thousand men and including the mounted portion of the Surrey Guides, were present. Observers with military experi- ence were agreeably surprised at the efficiency in drill shown by the Volunteers, by their marching power, and by the alertness and rapidity with which they made their advance by rushes at the final stage of the mimic battle. The leading and general work done by the officers was exceedingly pro: mising. No one who saw the Volunteers could possibly doubt that, to put it at the very lowest, they would afford a most useful auxiliary force in case of invasion.
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