AMONGST THE BIG STUFF.
WHEN THE PRINCE WAS IN ACTION. NEARLY LOST THHE NUMBER OF HIS MESS. (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 26. A thrilling story of how the Prince _ <of Wales was nearly killed by a French .■shell in the Houthulst Forest (between Ypres and Dixmude) in war-time was told by Major Dudley Ward, at a dinner of , the Welsh Guards Comrades ’ ) Association. “We had been shelled all day by a heavy French gun,’* he said, “and sent out a message protesting. W e were bold that it was not a French gun and that it was high time that we knew the •difference between ' a French and a •German gun. Suddenly we saw two figures ooming up a hill. One was the Prince of Wales. The gun was not then firing, but When they were halfway up, the Frenchmen rc-started. Shells fell all round- the PrincV- of Wales, and one completely hid him from view. Colonel Sterling, commander of the battalion, shrieked ‘My God, they have got him.’ ” Voices: “Thank God, they did not.” ■ “ You are right, ” added Major Ward. ■“They didn’t, for we saw the Prince of Wales legging it falling mud and filth to a German ‘pill-box’ we had taken just before.” The Prince of Wales attended the •dinner. • •
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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