IN JUTLAND FIGHT.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 413, 21 April 1937, Page 5

IN JUTLAND FIGHT.

King George VI Disobeyed the Doctors London. April 14. How King George VI. insis'ed against medical advice, on taking part in the Battle of Jutland, is toll by the Aucklander, Hector Bolitho in “Royal Progress,” published bj Bal sford. He s’.a'es llia<t in September,. 1915 the King, then Duke of York, had t< be 'brought ashore for an operation if er \vh : :!i ho kept worrying the Naval Medical Board for leave to rejoin his ship. He wrs given a port at the Admiralty, but. was so insistent on going to <sea that eaHy in 1916 he was al 'owed •:<■) rejoin H.M.S. Collingwood, though h? was still ill. After fonv months lie collapse.] and 'was taken ashore, but he rejoined the ship just. before Jutland, and on thi3<t ominous May afternoon helped to send 84 rounds against the enemy. He was mentioned in dispatche® for his “coolness and courage,”