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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. John Edwin Parham
British Army 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:London
I heard a story how John Parham and fellow soldiers saved the life of the Prince of Wales after he was visiting the Front on his charger and entourage when a shell fell very close to where the Prince was and his horse panicked and fell into a shell hole, trapping the Prince and horse in mud. John ran over with fellow friends and linked there belts together and managed to pull the Prince of Wales to safety who said to the men that he would recommend them for their bravery.
My grandfather was a man who saw the war as a service to the country, did not believe in glory and, I was told, he burnt his medals.
In 1964 I was given two cavalier statues which I still have and they stood over my grandfather's fire place for years covered in soot so when I got them home I soaked them in soapy water only to find they had a false bottom in them and inside to my horror was documents that melted away in front of my eye's never knowing what they where and why were they inside the bottom of the cavaliers.
We, as a family, wonder whether the saving of the Prince of Wales had any truth to it.
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