Letter: Sad reminder of a boy ‘desperate for some glory’

The princely present to the Prince Imperial at Chiselhurst (Letters, ATG No 2633) is a sad reminder of a boy desperate for some glory.

He was slain by Zulus in the 1879 campaign while accompanying Chelmsford’s forces in south Africa.…

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