DYING MOTHER’S PLEA

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 90, 11 January 1932, Page 2

DYING MOTHER’S PLEA

Soldier Son at Bedside HELP FROM PRINCE Released from a pledge by the death of the woman in Oxfordshire, a doctor has revealed how the Prince of Wales responded to a dying mother’s appeal and took her soldier-son to her bedside. When Mrs. Keene, of Minster Lovell, near Whitney, received tlie tragic news that she could not hope to recover from her illness, her son, Private George Keene, was serving with the Tank Corps in Egypt. Hoping to see him before the end came, she asked the Prime Minister to help her, but he was unable to do so. She begged War Office officials to grant the favour, but that apparently was •impossible. Then Mrs. Keene wrote to the Prince, and as the result of Royal Intervention her son was with her when she died. Dr. Gordon Robinson,. of Tow Law, Durham, divulged the secret of the Prince’s kindly act. “I feel now,” declared -Dr. Robinson, “that this illustration of the Prince’s sympathies and human understanding should become known.” It was a second letter from the . Prince that informed Mrs, Keene that her son* was coming home. “It told my mother that George had been granted leave,” stated Miss Doris Keene. “I shall never forget the joy that letter brought to mother. “George stayed with us after that, and he was at mother’s bedside when she died. Now he is back in Egypt. Since tjien my father has died. We shall never forget the Prince’s kindness to mother. I know she blessed him.”