THE PRINCESS VICTORIA

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 13

THE PRINCESS VICTORIA

SMALL BOY TAKES SALUTE

A five-year-old boy patient ,at tho Royal Sussex County Hospital at Brighton stood proudly at the salute by tho side of Princess Victoria, the King's sister, as the men of the 2nd City tif London Fusiliers (Territorial Army), who had bden in camp at Kottingdean, marched past tho hospital on their way back r to London' recently (states the "Daily Mail")., The march-past was arranged at tho suggestion of Princess Victoria. She has taken great interest in the Territorials since three. of their, men were hurt by a runaway horse ■ and cattle-float while marching through Kottingdean. . She attended one of tho men, LancpCorporal Fisher, before his removal to hospital, and has since'paid three .visits to Fisher and Fusilier Grinsoy, who was also in hospital. Tho men marched past tho hospital with bands playing, and all the patients who wore well enough wero wheoled out on to the sunlit balcony. Fisher and Grinsey had places of honour, but the Princess's attention was attracted by iittlo five-year-old Jimmie Awcock, of Crawley, who saluted her from an upper balcony. The Princess waved back at the little boy, and then spoke to officials and told them to bring him down and put him by her side. So Jimmie Awcock sat by the side of ' Princess Victoria, and together they saluted the Territorials.