A STORY OF THE PRINCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2121, 29 April 1920, Page 1

A STORY OF THE PRINCE.

DESIRE TO BRING IN WOUNDED MAN. KEPT BACK BY FORCE. There are 'many good stories of famous people and of air fighting in Captain A. Cunningham Reid’s “Planes and Personalities; a PotPourri.” He tells the world that the Prince of Wales often accompanied Prince Albert when the latter was flying, and that he has an Avro aeroplane of his own, ‘which he keeps* at Croydon-next to that of Prince Albert. The authorities firmly forbid the Prince of Wales to fly by himself. All the same he.has learnt how to. Prince Albert has proved a most excellent pilot, and in consequence now wears a pair of wings over all his decorations. . . I hear tha,t on one occasion the Prince of Wales, while in the trenches and under fire, attempted to go over the top to bring in a wounded man, and was only prevented by force. At the beginning of the war lie went to see Lord Kitchener in order to try to persuade him to allow him to take his share of the fighting in the trenches. Lord Kitchener replied that the chances of his being killed would he a very serious cou--1 sideratiou, but l the chance and

consequence of his being captured would not be considered at all. “HORRIBLE SINKING FEELING.” Captain Reid flew with the Prince of Wales from Spa to Cologne, after the armistice, a distance of 100 miles, on one occasion, and asked by him to do some “stunts,” complied : I proceeded from 7,000 ft. to do three upward rolls one after another; at the end of each of these the nose of the machine fell down with a horrible sinking feeling, leaving one’s “tummy”, in one’s mouth. We finished up with a vertical side-slip, ending in a spin directly over the spire of Cologne Cathedral. After this horrifying performance — The Prince, to my astonishment, told me it was the first time he had done any but the simplest of stunts, but thought “it was just ripping.” ■