brother of King Vajiravudh—for modernizing the Royal Thai Navy and for his reported feats
as a healer and practitioner of saiwet or occultism. They celebrate his remarkable life story,
including his time studying naval sciences while a midshipman in Britain's Royal Navy in the
1890s. One outstanding episode from this phase of his life describes his exposure to warfare
on the island of Crete in 1898. An apocryphal tale of his survival among war dead now …