Sergeant falls to death
‘N Z Press Assn —Copyright). | SYDNEY. An Army parachutist plummeted 10,000 ft to his; death when his parachute failed during a free fall jump. He was Sergeant C. J. V. Colelough, aged 32, married, of Raymond Terrace, near Newcastle. He died after he jumped from a Caribou aircraft at Saltash, near Williamstown Air base. Sergeant Colelough was a member of the Green Machine, a four-man precision parachute team, which had (just returned from Germany iwhere they competed in the (world free-fall champion- < ships. More than 1 L 2.000 jumps ; ■ have been made at the school! ! without loss of life. Sergeant Colelough had > I made 1070 jumps.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33966, 6 October 1975, Page 9
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