HIGH SCHOOL BOY SUSPENDED
SOUGHT PRINCE'S AUTOGRAPH. LONDON, December 4. When the Prince of Wales opened the "Le'yton County High School last week a fifteen-year-old boy, Geoffrey Gill, a member of the matriculation form, asked the Prince for: his autograph. The headmaster (Mr M. Gompertz) has now suspended Gill for "gross breach of discipline and grave impropriety." Gill says that the Prince did not seem angry. "He put both hands on my shoulders and said, smiling: "Sorry, old man, I can't give you my autograph; or I'll have to do it for tlm whole school.' " Several boys agreed to ask for the autograph, but the others backed out. Gill's father" has sent a letter, asking the Prince to inform Mr Gompertz whether he was annoyed of otherwise.,
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Shannon News, 31 December 1929, Page 2
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