THE EX-KAISER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 172, 4 May 1936, Page 8

THE EX-KAISER.

PAINTING OF LAST REVIEW Congratulations from the ox-Ivaisci have been received by Miss Freda Beaumont, aged 23, daughter of a retired civil servant, of Kimpton, near Yeovil, Somerset, on a, painting she made from a photograph taken secretly while the ex-Kaiser was reviewing liis troops for the last time in 1918. Mr F. G. Deering, of Dagenham, who owns the photograph, stated in an interview: “Shortly before the big German 'push’ in 1918, a friend of mine, Sergeant-Major AY. S. Clark, was a prisoner-of-war. “The review of the troops was kept very but a German ambulance driver, who was a barber in London before the war and knew Clark, was near the scene. He bad a camera in his ambulance, and took a picture of the review, in which the ex-Kaiser can be seen.

lie made two amateurish prints, one of which he gave to Clark, who kept it sewn up in li is clothes and brought it home and gave it to me. “Miss Beaumont took four months to do the painting from the photograph. When it was finished I had copies made and I sent one of them to a friend in Holland, who sent it to the ex-Kaiser’s household at Doom.’’