"ICH DIEN!"
London, August 7. The Express is informed officially that the Price of Wales is to be given a commission in the Grenadier Guards. ■ It ig understood that the Prince will join the regiment forthwith, and will go with them on active service. It is known that hie Royal Highness, who joined the Navy and qualified for the rank of lieutenant, has been keenly anxious to prove his patriotism by serving King and country in the present grave orieis of the nation's history just as hie brother, Prince Albert, is doing in. the First Battle Squadron of the Royal Navy. The Prince of Wales will go with the Grenadiers where the exigencies of the situation call. . It is very usual for the BrigaOe of Guards to Be used, in the first instance, for home service, and there is reason to believe tnatTne Grenadiers will be quartered somewhere on. the east coast. Prince Albert is a midshipman in the Dreadnought Collingwood. The Prince of Wales is just overtwenty, and Prince Albert will be nineteen in December next.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2462, 2 October 1914, Page 3
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