THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 7

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE FRONT

Anyone who knows the Prince of Wales's keenness for soldiering must be glad that he has been allowed to go to trie front, writes a correspondent in an English newspaper. There can be no doubt that he himself would have liked to go as a regimental officer with his battalion of the Grenadier Guards, and everyone must have folt sorry for him when ho was unablo to go. He ha 6, after all, done as much hard work to make himself an efficient officer as a great many young men who have gone, out with their regiments. He has .not taken the old-fashioned Royal way into tho Army. When he went up to Oxford he joined the Officers' Training Corps of the Unjversity, and he his taken his part, like any other undergraduate, in drills and . marches and field days. There must be a lot of young officers who have got commissions on the strength of their Officers' Training Corps training, and the Prince has done what they have done. He would be, as a matter of fact, harder to tiro at ordinary Tegimental work than most men of his age. Marching never tiics him. _ Ho is an extraordinary wa'kor, covering long distances at a pace which requires a pretty hard man to keep vp with it. When he was at Oxford he used to aee a lot of the country by taking his car out some distance and walking back. It was a common thing any Sunday during term if one happened to know the Prince's car, to find it fa some village oight-cen or twenty miles from Oxford, where it had just deposited him for a walk back. He will be so glad to have gone to the war that the country may well congratulate him.