NAVAL OFFICER SHOT
INCIDENT ABOARD SUBMARINE
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 19. A 23-year-old naval officer had an emergency head operation today after being shot in the wardroom of the submarine Truncheon at Portsmouth, the
“Daily Express” reports today. He is Lieutenant Nicholas Grey Holmes, of the submarine Aeneas. Admiral Sir George Creasy, Com-mander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, tonight ordered a board of inquiry into the incident, which occurred on Saturday afternoon. A bullet blew off Holmes’s hat and chipped the top of his skull, the newspaper says. The “Daily Express” says that reports by the Portsmouth Criminal Investigation department and naval officers show that the gun which caused the injury was privately owned and was not one of the submarine’s small arms, which are locked up.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27538, 21 December 1954, Page 3
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124NAVAL OFFICER SHOT Press, Volume XC, Issue 27538, 21 December 1954, Page 3
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