Edward, Prince of Wales, First World War mb-code 42-15430184 were stiffened and padded to

were stiffened and padded to prevent them folding over during walking

with two men carrying a sedan chair in the foreground

Loddiges Terrace

who destroyed the Indian island fortress of Suvarnadurg in 1755

the last specimen having died in captivity in 1914

Edward, Prince of Wales, First World War mb-code 42-15430184 were stiffened and padded toEdward, Prince of Wales, First World War, 1914 1918, (c1920). The Prince (1894 1972) later became King Edward VIII but abdicated to marry a divorced woman. Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914 1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920).