The mystery of the guardsman who vanished in his scarlet uniform three weeks ago from a sentry post at Buckingham Palace (TIME, May 13)the first palace sentry in British history so to disappearwas solved last week. The solution came, not through Scotland Yard, but from the missing sentry himself.
He, Signaler George Sivewright, ist battalion, Scots Guards, dressed in dusty civilian clothes, stumbled into his mother's home in Aberdeen, Scotland. As he soaked his aching feet (Aberdeen is 500 mi. from London; he had walked), he confessed that he had wilfully deserted. His...
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