OFFICER'S GIFTS TO THE WAR OFFICE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14545, 25 October 1917, Page 2

OFFICER'S GIFTS TO THE WAR OFFICE.

The Secretary of the War Office1 has made the following announcement: The Army Council desire gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of "two gifts of £3,000 each which were presented ■to.them in December, 1916, and January 1916, for the provision of guns and machine-guns by the lato SeeoiidLieutenant Henry Arskine Tyser, Black Watch. Mr. Tyser had stipulated that Ins name should not bo disclosed in connection with these gifts, at any rate till after the war, but as this officer has been killed in action his executor las agreed that his generosity should no longer remain unrecorded. Mr. Tyser had also made many contributions in aid of his regiment and of charitable funds connected with it, and by a codicil to his will executed a few days before his death he left a legacy of £2000 to his battalion for the benefit of hard and deserving cases. Mr. Tyser, who served with the Black Watch, was a well-known golfer and a director of Mesres. Tyser and Co., shipowners and insurance brokers, of Fenchurch avenue, and- Lloyd's. lie loft estate valued at £51,656".