WOUNDING OF DUKE
SPLINTER OF BOMB VERY NARROW ESCAPE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) tßecd May 23, noon) O LONDON, May 22. The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain with the British Expeditionary Force says that the Duke of Gloucester had a very narrow escape from death when an hotel in a French town was'hit by two bombs. The Duke of Gloucester, unshaken, emerged from a cellar where he had dined with a friend. This was the fourth bombing which the Duke of Gloucester has experienced. He suffered a wound in his right hand by a bomb splinter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20254, 23 May 1940, Page 4
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