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| Year | 1988 |
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53 ngiz... £7”qu 8 Obituary l PRINCE PIERRE MURAT \FIGHTER FOR THE COMMON CAUSE A correspondent writes:— The news of the death of tilt. Prince Pierre “mat on Jul} 30 will have come as a painful shth to his many friends in this country. After paying an early call at the Residence Generalc in Rabat. he was driting back to: Casablanca when his car left the road and hitt a trtx‘. It is believed that the Prince had an attack of embolism. lie was instantly killed! Rom with the century. Prince Pierie. who was t\irtl_\ educated in England as a boy. frequently \isited london during his later years. He \oluntcered for active sen‘icc during the lot-:— 18 war at the age of 17. was commissioned in the Sniliis. and won the (mix dc Guerre des Thefitre d‘operaiions exterieures, The large circle of his friends in England was greatly increased during the nxvnt iiar. Like nu‘St of his fellow-country men he was mobilized on September :. 1030. When the first divisions of the till. were sent to France he was apv’ pitinted French liaison ottieer to a British oaialiy brigade in ll Corns. Early in June. 1°40. when his country was compelled to lay down the sword. he refused the offer to be retxitriated to France and elected to carry on the common struggle against a common foe. Although he would have been proud to serve i‘ in the ranks. when he applied to the War Office he was gazetted to the 4lh; 7th Dragoon! Guards. 0n donning his new unifomt for the,I tits: time he removed from his little finger the he.i\_\ ring of Italian gold. emblazoned with the family crest and the royal crown of Naples. . and. entrusting it to a friend. he said. with a little ot that giare but smiling eercmoniousness which was part of his manner. that if he claimed it back France would be free. and if not he would be dead. He was wearing this sime ring when he died. But he had liyed without it for more than five years. :is he had liyed without his name. For on joining the British Army he chinged his name to Peter Murray. and it was as " Peter " that he soon became known to the many- war-time com- panions who were privileged to become his friends. llis mastery of English was uncanny —-he seryed undetected throughout the war as a hum—tide British officer. He was with his regiment .it Rushden. with S Armoured Brigade in the desert. with the Eighth Army's planning staff in Tri tli. before the attack on Sicily. in North A rica. in Italy. in France. Belgium. Holland. and finally in Germany. He emerged unscathed front the war and the secret of his true identity was well kept. This was one of his major concerns. for he know that reprixtls would hate been exercised against his family had the Germans become aware of his actiiities. Between the wars he had married HRH. Princess lsibelle id'Orleans. daughter of HRH. the Due de EGuise and sister of the Comte de Paris. His Iinnmate friends knew the isolation. the soli- 7tudc. and the fruStration that weighed heavily ‘ upon his hean during the long years of separa- ltion from his family and exile front his country. 1T0 both he was deeply and selflessly devoted. i“ hen. after the war. he was able to return to his wife and to his home in Paris. the four young children he had left behind were welli into their teens. i Ant )4 I’M/ids. anti-1w. ‘were their raptain G. A. 1- asailt. R W Periton tNorth (fruit-l :mtt r'fi‘ KM. Jf'ué Aloha». (a mLJD‘Utfli dutiful. 611k: ' S'TA‘FFORDSHIRE (‘OI'N’I‘Y HOCKEY team who drew-at Porthill \‘C‘tct‘d‘l' Man i. Rottingliamshire. _Sented: J. C. Wootton. R. P. S. Baelie. G. A. Grifl'en (st‘aptai’n).aE.l\$. Lloyd and R. Hollinsliead. Standing: Mr. R. Wilcoek. G. K. C. Pad-diam. J. S. Holloway. “. A. “ notion. L. J. Llewellyn. F. E.‘l‘i. [:9 nnett. R. W. Periton. Mr. A. H. Bladen and . r. .. Lloyd. County Hockey! :‘j‘r‘fl' wafmyy/ra/ i, at Porthlll By forcing a draw against W , u ‘Statlordshiro in the first w fifl!¢;lw¢u¢hllc§m¢> 1:74 //7)‘#gft) eounty hockey mateh :0 he PM W5Mffl/fibwefi/L (M; I layed in North Stallorishire w . l r. _ a ,, y - ) Ii'yor many years. Nottiiigham— “MVA‘i/Mai‘f‘) 7M5“ {WW shire yesterday checked their‘ opponents‘ victorious mareh this season. The fixture. whieh was played on the Bradwell-lanet u ground. Porthill~ was Stafford- .shire's last of the season. i In the first half. Statl‘ord- ‘jshiro were the m o r e y‘datigerous side. and at half- time the seore was 2-1 in their favour. After the interval, the home team seemed to Slat‘kt‘n oil and the. visitors equalised a few minutes from full-time. . The Staffordshire scorers Gritt‘t‘u. and \V. A. Wootton. Nottinghamshire‘s goals were scored by W. W. Plythereh and P_ V. Walsh. The teams \\'ere:~ Staflordshire.—~l. J Llewellyn i\\‘alsaili: G K C Paekham iStat- tordl. R P S Bitehe iWomhourt‘e‘; R Ho‘liitshead lNorth Stnfloidst. J C \Vootton twaisalll. .l S liolln» .wai- I\\’ombotirne\. t; A (Ii-men ll\\‘i\mhcut'tiet. l“ H Bennett mlh Stafiordst. 4F. W l.‘ord norkt. W A \\'onttnii (‘tll'NTY “()(‘KEL—Meuibers of the Statfordshire NMil"Khalfllihicl‘B-j“1512““;1‘.E hockey team which met Nottingliamsliire at Porthill. Sing-“$3? “91$: “vnp‘éz‘lyf'g yesterday. in the last eounty game of the season. Left .Thmnpsm; p R Hannah. c to right: F. E. H. Bennett. R. W. Periton and R. ‘Dttrhfim. p \' Walsh. w w Pry Hollinshead (all of North Staffordshire) and G. K. C. :herrh. J M Yeomans ; Packham (Stafford). 1979 at»? W iip‘fitxfitqfl. |