AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR
PRINCE OF WALES UNDER SHELL FIRE A NARROW ESCAPE Lnilon, February' 26. A thrilling story of how the Prince of Wales was nearly killed by a French shell in the Honlthurst Forest in war time was told bv Major Dudley Ward at a dinner of the Welsh Guards Comrades’ Association. ‘We had been shelled all day long,” said Major Ward, “by a heavy French gun. We sent out protesting messages, and were told that it was not French, and it was high time we knew the difference between a French and a German gun.
"Suddenly we saw two figures coming up the hill. One was the Prince of Wales. The gun was not then firing, but half-way up the Frenchmen restarted. The shells fell all round the Prince, and one completely hid him from view. Colonel Sterling, commander of the battalion, shrieked: “Aly God, they have got him!” Voices: ‘Thank God thev did not.”
“You are right,” added Major DudleyWard. “They didn’t, for we saw’ the Prince of Wales legging it through the falling mud and filth to a German pillbox we had taken just before. The Prince of Wales attended the dinner.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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198AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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