PRINCE UNDER SHELL FIRE
THRILLING WAR STORY NEARLY KILLED BY FRENCH GUN A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 2C. (Received February 27, at 5.55 a.m i A thrilling story of bow the Prince of Wales was nearly killed by a French shell at Hpulthurst Forest in the war time was told by Major Dudley Ware at a dinner of the Welsh Guards’ Comrades’ Association. “Wo had been shelled all day by a heavy French gun, and sent out a message protesting. Wo were told that it was not a French gun, and it was high time we knew the difference between a French and a German gnu. Suddenly we saw two figures coming up tho hill. One was tho Prince of Wales. Tho gun was not then firing, but when they were halfway vp the Frenchmen restarted. Shells fell all round the Prince of Wales. One completely hid him from view, and Colonel Sterling, commander of the battalion, shrieked; ‘My God! They have got him!’ ” Voices: “Thank God they did nut.” “ You are right,” added Major Ware. “ They didn’t, for we saw tho Prince legging it through tho falling mud and filth to a German pillbox which we had taken just before.”
Tho Prince of Wales attended +ll© dinner.—A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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216PRINCE UNDER SHELL FIRE Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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