LIEUTENANT SEDDON, M.P.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 16 August 1916, Page 2

LIEUTENANT SEDDON, M.P.

Writing from the seat of war, Lieut. T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., says that his brother, Lieut. J. Stuart Seddon, who i s with the British Royal Horse Artillery, had an amusing experience, if not a painful one, when he went on leave for eight days in England. lie and some other British officers motored from where they were posted to the French port one fine day in order, to make sure of catching the Channel steamer, and so not missing a day in London. In their hurry to catch the boat the car broke down en a bad piec : of road, the wheels sticking fast in th mud and the body cf the car hurling forward with its freight and throwing the passengers on to the road, with the car hamper pinning them down. They were all rendered unconscious. They were.picked up by Princess Victoria —no less —who tapped the wire*, called up the nearest hospital for d'res sers, and had the victims removed in her car to the hospital. She and her lady-in-waiting (Lady Dudley Ward) personally attended to the injured. Lieut. Stuart Seddon soon came to though bruised and battered, had his head and arm bandaged up, and was able to continue Wis journey to England, where his condition gave hi s sister, Mrs Wood, who was waiting re him on the railway platform, rather a shock. He was attended at the hospital by Sister Agnes, the famous nurse who nursed King Edward.