THE GUARDIAN. Cl-IARDOTTETOWN

D);-ogressive School. Dukeis ' ghaped Future Consort Line Is :2-ye:-:..i: at;-sat-:.r-.:i: Anc1ent

has indefinite leave from the Navy.

What is Lieutenant commander the

Duke of Edinburgh like as a sailor. Mountbattens Trace Link To Battenbergs

as a man? Well. ashore and afloat. One family in our time can claim

they say: "A Jolly good chap." quietly proud. Many sinries were A hmory "uh uh” beude me

my 1.. 1953 P1kGE FIFTEEN I!

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Scotlandis Moray Firth Was Scene Of Edinburgh's-Youth

By Bert Oliver . .

Life in the rugged little ports along Scotland's Moray .. m does not change much through the years. The. fish- qr boats crowd about the harbors when the season is on, rd through the hard winter. lie idle in the sheltered bays m " ts. In the summer, city folk come down to the sea

At sea, he was, above all else. I naval officer. In the eyes of the crew he was ".Iimmy the one", not a Duke. when he was a. first Lieu- tenant. And. as a commander. he was always "the Skipper" or "the Old Man." Ratings did not brag about him ashore. But they were

in ' 7 ' - bout the rocky coastline and go nalking le .1 b ”,hh- h , d scyamble a ' i or Va ou ip eforo he joined 1 1,, 1 homes :?0ng me stretches of golden sand and under the northern lhagpig. There twas one about the ;?n;,:::1c,g:sElesii:atiphavCee yrisen to! i I It is a pleasant life and it has been like that for very ! me e ried 0 board a oompnn- ROW mo... and pmyion, n 1, me; . , um 1?” desu-Dyer early 1" the momma family once called the Battenbergsi 'l I T mg, with the idea of borrowing her cat. -new the Moumhhuem. l I Now they are so closely Issocia- I i.

From time to time. one or other of the gnarled, weath- Elie path; otflficeh) 0; the which saw beaten old fishermen of the coast dies. But there are rs?-(0:38 of :poW?e5ufj:1:s”ei93vh?;: ted with loyalty that thegr fnalhilly ' . ' i - i is h us hold wcr ve ways otheis to take their place. Lads whohhave grown hhhhrm moulded to his body and hglrhizenma. Bat 39 yam no mm: thcrtl and taken to the sea to become. in time. 85 .Sf'r11iy hblond hair plastered over his face. was ham 'to the vohhger aoh or they siheir forebears. Some have sought a more amblilOllS.iI18 todretrentt hetore aiiotherycrand Duke of h man g though. reel. in (119 big ocean-going VESSCIS. 51:3 Themhi kftvexihua ly dlfwgjeared quite rich-German Principality a " haiE 'boat 8 ” V" 5” 088” boy from whom all the great Bat- TDPTP was one Such lad in November'l94'i' the Duke of . tenbergs and Mountbattens of to-ih who Spilnt hi5 gschooldays .in Edinburgh. as he'tlien became, has? :;3;e:1:5cS:c::?neSh fol: hdgtjiurtohplsl muse we "1 the ”"d' iiiifilllffl i:..:::"”2i:” ....-We in up wag at t(t;:rdgnS- Opei'atioi)iIs a something of a back-E i'e'illv rnizlggiicciptloilils of iisnh efliiifiel genemuom 50 many posmom on I W em" e oys mom bov. But still clinging toleiit captain and dirciplinarian ii;i9m1””"”" The” tale shows man. were Ollmtlraged "7 ha5De1.t:11e hopes for an active naval cnrccr.:wns scrupulously fair. iazigrfzmiigdogagest0g:Cx:":le:ra1:h::::Eh W. of me sea and the it 9 he was posted to the next slaii- He was the most junior in rankinhh is an adaptable xhmhy. Um.

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scrupulously Fair

harbors. course at Greenwich from April to and command in the flotilla butl

Eillir since wheel on the

those carefree days nil Moray Firth. the

hkabip stamp of the sea. He has built himself a fine naval

iiand has min ship. Reluctantly, he - u :3'SltgHl)3lili if ever he is able to re- ' win. For the Duke of ixlinbiirgli is R. born sailor. an early life. was not easy fol him. He bore the title of a foreign h.im.,h but the Navy saw to it that it was treated no better than the next man lie knew he would have in work hard. He had been told by many. including his school- uiasier in Scotland - Kurt Hahn. in anti-Nazi of remarkable char- mer who ”refugeed" his school from Germany - that at his best at was nutsranding. but his second W was not good enough. So he tried. and the results speak for

Joined the Navy

lit 18, Philip joined the Royal Navy as a cadet, and trained at the Royal Naval college. Dartmouth. He was awarded the King's Dirk is finest all-round cadet of his term and also the Eardley Howard- ifhockeit prize for the best cadet. In January. 1940. he went to sea is a micishipmnn in the battleship iismxllles, a far cry from the cut- ters and sailing boats he helped build and sail on the Moray Firth. He was with the Ramillies four months and saw New Zealsnd for lheflrst time when the ship called it wellington during the Centen- liiil Exhibition.

After just one year at sea. with lrinsfers to the rmisers Kent and Shropshire, the young midshipman was back on a battleship, this time H.li.S. Valiant. And it was with ll!f at the Battle of Cape Matapan that he first saw action. He was

of searchlight control. his work in illuminating the Italian battlefleet during the nzglii action. was mentioned in iaspatrhes and received the Greek Kn: Crass.

During this time. Philip took a rib-lieuionani's course, winning lciir firsts and one second to gain I'll"! months seniority out of a imaible lo. After a gunnery course. lit was appointed a sub-lieutenant on the old destroyer Wallace in i942 and soon after was promoted First Lieutenant to become. at 21. "19 Yvllngest officer second-in-com- mind of a big destroyer. There Vim more action along the North Ai'!i”hl'l coast and in July 1943 he W! Dar! in the Sicily invasion.

.-ihmit this time. Philip learned mine of the harder. hotter facts of eeilnring. He was travelling in ii ”””P5hlii from Suez and had to do Ifilni in the stokchold after the

int he still keeps a certificate say- " he qualified as it "trimmer" - isinkers job. lie grow a beard, a full. golden (lrilhir. and took it with him into hrru-lbnniiese theatre of war when whelas transferred to the destroyer hwit mung with the -Eastern me; had later the British Pacific ind" f? Was there till the end. H! in the surrender in Tokyo .V in 1945. hm: an England the Duke took .,,0mo"'h”' mull: for the last hm H; 5 before she was paid off ham Nfic. There he joined the hm IHVY Training whet! :MbS Glendower. in North hm hm see where only officers me E 1 est leadership records (1 W030 med. He took over train- mmum alnd. when the school Fwy”: osed was given a simi- Corrhsm HMS Port Arthur at hmopea hear Bath. Here. Philip ..,.,, mm is Mm Powers with the mm with which he lectured

he wmn-:1 on sea warfare. mor- roman !lHall'l and the self. may Mor which the experienc- um icer is so competuu. I

Of . kn ;-ieutenant Mountbat- mmu 1 ocal dances and play- intiiu am" his shirt-sleeves with he nnhmcers at the local pub .11 hmw M the local team. They (in the M as Philip there. and :11. C 9' and hockey fields as "9 Ten 3 ism,-h ,,, A-"mi" sports car. am "0, mg 1dr:wi;,i1i: built up local

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it y "bggille he was at Oorshsm h, Al? ensued to Princess hi uhhh” he was at Cox-sham the wedding. His last

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d 1 ho com. follow the sea

' an r Sm determined to resume his career. ash I his R0351 soon as possible. Soon after moving

Hm 5” or " into Clarence House in July. l949,lthe crews practise befor

E has home the uhn-.15- own request.

Princeiilharles was born and the But he was still

DUKE OF EDINBURGH taken before marriage

destroyer as First Lieutenant. or "Jimmy the ()n(-.'' as the rzitin';S

with waterpipes - some contrast 10 the home he had left.

promoted l.icui(-nmit-Conimandcr and took command of the frigate Magpie. a wartime ll-boot killer. Life at the Malta stntion was good. As the Duke says, it. was "the best year of my llfe." There were long cruises and exercises with the Home and Mediterranean Fleets. and all the interest of a first com- mand. Princess Elizabeth. like so many other Navy wives, joined him at Malta when she could. and help- ed to makerthe round of engage- ments ashore attractive to him.

But it had to end. On July 16. 1951, he relinquished his command and returned to London to share with his wife the burden of Royal .,agements. made heavier by the

war; (Cent

school boat a coat of

t. " I bachelor was with his

Towards the end of 1950. he was.

to) AS SCHOOIJOY is busy giving point at A Gordoheioun.

mid-September. 1948. At the end of by the time he left Magpie she - . g . - . i . 'iupted itself to the modern world; this. he it as put on half pay at his was at the peak of her peacetimci Prince Pmhp, who has mivehed they

reputation. When the traditional regatta day

career, Duke had less and less chance to.came at Valetta Harbour, Malta, he

.saw to it that Magpie men won six

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he flew to Malta and joined thcitheir hands were bliste-red. llenrmsh Royal mmhy. Pnhhh Louis ?'F!i.

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cmd QUEEN ELIZABETH in Palace drawing room.

lsirckcd one Whaler to victory him- lssilf. And when Magpie won, the crew from that time on backed him

the men and liked nothing better than to drive the skimmer - a frigate fast motor launch - leav- ing the coxswnin unceremoniously ion board the Magpie or putting him in the back seat. Shrcwdness is part of the Duke's naval compet- cnce. There are always a few "bad hats" in any big body of men. No ship wants them but some ships have them. It was noticeable he managed to keep them away from the Magpie. in fact, he even posted his own. "Very crafty is the Old Man." the older ratings used to say. "very fly indeed." However. the Diiks of Edin- burgh's naval career is ended now. if not permanently. then for un- specified years to come. Ashore. he has turned his mind and energy to the immensity of his role as the husband of a British monarch.

of ten events and made tliei shi l . Cock Ship of the flotilla. Hermiidgime ”m”” "””"9'””””' I elinnd uni

like some aristocracles it has ad-i

world as a naval officer, and gain-. ed his promotions on merit, is ani example in this generation. But. before him it is instructive to readl

Four Battenbergs and Mountbat-i tens have married members of the)

of Batteriberg married Victoria Ai- berta a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Another Battenberg mar- ried Alice. a daughter of Queen Victoria. Henry Maurice of Bat- teriberg married the Princess Bea- trice. And now the Duke of Edin- burgh is the consort of Queen Elizabeth the Second.

The family entered the strange poet-war world - after the Firsty World War - with a new name; and high reputation. For the fol- lowing 15 years the closest connec- tion between the Royal Family and the Mountbattens was the firm friendship of'Edward. Prince of Wales. (whom "everybody" called David) with Lord Louis Mountbat- ten, (whom "everybody" called Dickie). the son of the great Ad- miral of the Fleet. The slings and a.rrows'of outrageous fortune spar- ed the Mountbatten family. Lady Alice, the sister of Lord Louis. mar- ried Prince Andrew of Greece, and her fortune was linked with that of, the Greek Royal family. They had: four daughters before their soni was born on June 10. 1921. He was.- christened Philip. He grew up as. Prince Philip of Greece. and; thought of his career as a serving- officer in the Royal Navy. Beforei his engagement to Princess Eliza.-l bath was announced he took a. special oath of allegiance and re-y nounced his Greek titles andy claims. For a short while he was Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. and. then the King ennobled him as; Duke of Edinburgh - a title sev- eral times before held by members of the Royal family.

Married Heiress

one of the greatest and most surprising marriages of the immed- late "back-to-normal” period after the First World War was between Lord Louis Mountbatten. the uncle. of Prince Philip. and the Hon. Ed-' wina Cassells, the daughter ofy Lord Mount Temple. Lord Louis. had married one of the greatest heiresses in Britain. Her grand- father was Sir Ernest Cassells. who; is always described as "the bahkei-." But he was something more than, that. The i

Rothschilds are always; spoken of as the Bankers and fin-i ancial advisers of governments. Sir. Ernest Cassells was the personal; banker and adviser to kings. In particular he was close to Edwardl Vll-and that King did much. des-E pite many tales of his extravag-l ance--to put in good order the per-i sonal fortunes of the kings of Eng-l land. Sir Emest Cassells shared. to!

was also a foreigner: he also hadl charm. He could not equal the aris-i tocratic gifts of Prince Louis or: Prince Henry of Bnticnberg. (The lat.ter's portrait shows a remark-1 able likeness to the clean-shaven; present Earl Mountbatten. He was; one of the few Edwardian great; who ever wore a beard). But Sir: Ernest Cassells' fortune is still with; us today. The millions he invested. in railways and industries in Swed- i en and Turkey. in Egypt and Iran- and throughout. the world. are stillj bearing fruit. The fate of his for-I tune was the subject of one of the: most remarkable bills ever passed by a Socialist Government. The Bill exempted Edwina-now known as the Countess Mountbatten of Bur-' ma - from provisions of R. will so- that she could spend some of the capital of her fortune-the fortune left by her grandfather. lord Louis and his wife Edwina built for them- I selves one of the most remarkable

would call I "duplex penthouse" overlooking Hyde Park from Park Lane. There "David" was often the guest of "Dickie" and his charming wife.

Lord IDUM. like his father. was a brilliant serving naval officer - perhaps a. little bit unorthodox for some of his commanders. With the abdication "his family ifortunes looked less secure than formerly. But war. which ended the career of his father Prince Louis of Rat- tenbera. was the opportunity for Lord Louis Mountbatten. With Winston Churchill in charge. a man like that could not fail to ad- vance. When a "Combined ops" was fonned. "Dickie" took over. When the toughest command of the war came along-and an the traditional commanders had dis. dained it--he became head of South East Asia command.

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The TOWN OF SUMMERSIDE exlenlds con- graiulalions and felicilaiions to Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Coro- nation, and wishes her long life and happi- ' ness in service lo her people.

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The THRONE, in Peace and War, in joy and sorrow, has stood as a rock-firmly estab- lished-an example and guide for each and all of us to follow.

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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

. HENRY W. WEDGE, Mayor T. D. Morrison Donald Lidslone Clarence Steele Dr. H. E. Clark W. E. Jenkins Andrew Perry

Chill?-59 Rank of stokers bad call this officer. lie went. bnck lo "llUmDEd" ship. It was DTODEWY 1iVinK 1" 5 C351" 7 ”- by 9 it with mmV)e”'15" ,1 i with some extent. the same family his-f e hottest Job he had ever donti one porthole and a ceiling drapfd H9 "-Wd '0 3” ” mm "3 tory as the Battenberg family. l-lei