 In a 1943 "Southern Daily Echo" article, former Sapper George Harding (2nd Company Royal Engineers) recalled being ordered to take a horse ambulance and find the Prince's body and bring it back to the column.The Prince Imperial had been out on reconnaissance mission with a party of the 17th Lancers.Describing the mission, he said
We advanced to a dried up river bed and had to cut away the banks to get the ambulance across.