KING EDWARD

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 305, 9 December 1936, Page 3

KING EDWARD

CHAPLAIN’S MELBOURNE. May 25. Some reminiscences of King Edward ;VIII. when Prince of Wales, were told by the Rev. J. Golder Burns at an Empire Day luncheon of the Royal (Society of St. George. Mr Blrns said that as an army Chaplain he spent three months in the company of the Prince during the assault on Passchendaele in 1917, and ho had a standing engagement to play badminton with him behind his hut. On one occasion Mr Burns was walking to head-quarters with the chemical officer, who was taking a new type oi German shell to be analysed. Mr Burns asked the chemical officer where he got the specimen. The reply wa’s that the Prince had been taking a walk in the morning, and had noticed it on the ground. Realising the importance of the discovery, he picked it up and carried it back in his hands for three miles under the German guns. His only request was that he might be given tho case as a souvenir. Mr Burns also recalled an occasion on wiiich the Prince was “stony broke,” and was forced to plead 'with the field cashier to accept his cheque for £lO to save him from being thrown out of the officers’ mess. (Laughter).