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212709John Stobo Prichard MC.
British Army 4th County of London Yeomanry
from:Mathern Lodge , Penylan Cardiff
Copy of Airgraph Letter to Mrs J. Stobo Prichard, Mathern Lodge, Penylan, Cardiff. From Commanding Officer, 4th County of London Yeomanry, Major G.J. Kidston, M.C.25th February, 1942
Dear Joan, Thank you so much for your kind letter of congratulations: mine was entirely undeserved, but Stobo’s was not. He is one of the very few doctors who has been decorated this war and no one deserves it more.
On December 28th he came up to me when we were being very heavily shelled, in a scout car, and asked for news of wounded which I gave him. The rest of the afternoon he spent tending wounded by jumping from tank to tank under fire. Next day without orders from me when he saw a tank catch fire and the crew bale out within 150 yards of 7 enemy tanks he went in with his little scout car under a barrage of fire and rescued them. I cannot tell you what a help he has been to me. I am only frightened that we shall lose him on a job soon, which will be one of the greatest losses the Regiment could have. My own pen is missing hence this ghastly scrawl.
Yours Sincerely
George Kidston
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