NARROW ESCAPE
FOR PRINCE OF WALES.
A WARTIME INCIDENT.
FRENCH SHELLS FALL CLOSE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
Received 10.30 a.m to-day. LONDON, Feb. 26. A thrilling story of how the Prince of Wales was nearly killed by a French shell at Houlthurst forest in war time, was told by Major Dudley Ward, at. the dinner of the Welsh Guards’ Comrades Association. “We hadi been shelled all day by a heavy French gun and sent out a message' protesting. We were told that it'was not a French gun and it was hightime 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 when they were half way up the Frenchman restarted and shells fell all round the Prince of Wales, 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 through, the falling mud and filth to a German, pillbox, which we had taken just before.” The Prince of Wales attended the dinner. — A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 February 1928, Page 9
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