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BORKENBERGE SQUADRON 791 ORLANCERS À SQUADRON Ċ SQUADRON MEN LEAGUER TRAINING SQUADRON TANK PARK AT WORK ! 8 7 el . ing Destroyer tows in drifting yacht with Kingsbridge man aboard A 38 - YEAR - OLD Kingsbridge shot a line across . She towed us farmer , drifted helplessly for three hours to the entrance of Portsmouth Harbour , and we came up harbour with a naval tug . " all night in a heavy Channel swell in his 15 - ton motor yacht before being towed into Ports mouth last night by a naval destroyer . " It was an awful night , although we were in no immediate danger of sinking . The naval men told us He was Capt . William Peek , that after they had taken us in joint owner of the 41 - year - old tow that we were , in fact , in the Forge . His home is at Hazelwood House , Gara Bridge . middle of a naval firing range . " Capt . Peek , a former Army officer , now farms at Loddiswell and Gara Bridge Mrs. Peek said last night that she expected her husband home as soon as the yacht had been laid up at Portsmouth . He set out from Le Havre late on Monday afternoon to go to Wootton , Isle of Wight , before con tinuing to Brixham to refit the yacht which has been in the South of France for three years . Just after midnight yesterday . the engines broke down , and Mr. Peek and his companion , a 72 - year old former French naval captain , Pierre Hunault put up a sail . " It was pretty ineffectual . " said Capt . Peek , after docking at Portsmouth . Forge drifted sideways helplessly night . When dawn broke Capt . Peek estimated that he was south of the Isle of Wight . " We saw some naval ships . I fired a flare and the destroyer H.M.S. Vigo came alongside and LIEUT - COL . ARTHUR GRENFELL A FAMOUS FAMILY A Correspondent writes :: Lieutenant - Colonel Arthur Morton Grenfell , D.S.O. , who died at Bettes hanger , Kent , yesterday , was the last survivor of the 15 children ( there were eight sons ) of Pascoe Grenfell , and a cadet of a family which has given much service to England . Four of his brothers were killed in uniform ; and their names , with the names of several of their cousins , are inscribed in the Cloisters of Eton . His brother Robert , the next older to him , was killed at Omdurman ; his eldest brother , also a Pascoe , was killed in Mata beleland ; another , Harold , rode in the Jameson Raid ; his famous twin brothers , Francis ( V.C. ) and Riversdale , were killed in the first year of the First World War . Field - Marshal Lord Grenfell was his uncle ; Julian the poet , Wilfred of Labrador , and Russell the naval historian were his cousins . Arthur Grenfell , dying at 85 , belonged to a departed day and age . Born in 1873 , he went to Eton , to Mr. Durnford's house ; won the Steeplechase , played in the XI , and was one of the most prominent athletes of his time in the school . Through his first marriage with Vera , daughter of the fourth Earl Grey , he was closely associated with Cecil Rhodes and the early develop ment of the Rhodesias . After being trained by Pierpont Morgan , who helped him to set up in the City , at an early age he made a fortune in promoting Canadian develop ment . Mercurial in temperament , he took on the challenge of reorganizing what has since become the Canadian National Rail ways . This was a task beyond his resources , and his firm failed shortly before the First World War . It was at this time that his fine collection of pictures was dispersed . When that war broke out in 1914 , he forsook all other interests and served in the Buckinghamshire Hussars . After his brother Francis was killed in the 9th Lancers , he transferred to that regiment and took over command of his brother's squadron in France . In that illustrious regiment he was himself severely wounded . being recommended for the V.C. and awarded the D.S.O. After the war he returned to business affairs , with varying success ; but there was no variation in the esteem and affection in which he was widely held . He was one of the best - loved men of a generation which he had long outlived . His first wife died in 1906 , leaving him two sons and a daughter . In 1910 he married Hilda , second daughter of General the Hon . Sir Neville Lyttelton , by whom he had four daughters . OBITUARY TECHNICAL OFFICER AT SEA 1957 FROM THE LONDON TIMES 1988 3 ? OLD COMRADES 1958 . / gº . 9 |
