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PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT. PHOTOGRAPH Signed.
Prince of the United Kingdom. Grandson of Queen Victoria. Son of Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. He was married to Princess Alexandra Duchess of Fife. Arthur was Governor-General of South Africa from 1920 to 1924.
Photograph showing Prince Arthur on horseback in the uniform of a colonel in the Royal Scots Greys. Signed by Arthur on the image and dated by him June 1937.
Real photograph on divided back post-card. Approx 14 x 9 cms. Fine.
Prince Arthur of Connaught was educated at Sandhurst and saw action in the Boer War as a young officer in the 7th Hussars. During the First World War, as a captain in the Greys, he served in France as aide-de-camp to successive leaders of the British Expeditionary Force, John French and DOUGLAS HAIG.
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