This is an article that primarily concerns the Canadian War memorial at Vimy Ridge and briefly touched upon some seldom remembered events in the life of the teen-age prince during the course of the First World War:
“Ten days after a would-be assassin had leveled a gun at him in London, King Edward VIII was scheduled to return to the Western Front, where, as a gangling boyish staff captain, he narrowly missed death from a shell that wrecked his car and killed his chauffeur.”
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