PRINCE “OVER THE TOP"

Evening Star, Issue 17079, 25 June 1919, Page 4

PRINCE “OVER THE TOP"

STORY OF HIS.DARING. Wo have heart! many stories of th© western liitmt in which the courage, initiative, and resource of peer and peasant, all played a notable part, and no doubt many more have yet to be told, but it |® characteristic of the modesty and selfdfacomcnt of our Royal Family that one describing 11 10 'bravery of the Prince of Wales has only now been allowed to leak out, and that, we are eitre, against the express wish of the Prdnoa himself. Too little {Kays Westminster,” in tho ‘ Western. Mail ’) has been said or written of the Prince’s work across the water. There arc thoso who th ink that lie was kept far behind the firing 11110. and never oa-rr.e under shell or gunfire. Buch is far from being tho case. Over and over again he was in the danger zone, and some day the Grenadiers may tell tho story of tho Prince's escapade when he went over the top and did his share like a real hero. To the comLcrnatton of the Qeenrol Staff, he war; found missing one afternoon, and their consternation was the greater when they learned that he had joined tho Grenadiers in one of their periodical attacks and gon© over the top. Tirndairly on the Italian front, the Prince was over and over again in the thick of the lighting, and it is to be regretted that for many reasons publicity has not been given to these exploits. s