OLD BOMB EXPLODES
Tragedy In Sydney Home Sydney, May 20. Edwin Hollingsworth, aged 44, a returned soldier, was killed last night when a Mills bomb, a war souvenir, exploded at his home at Randwick. His daughter Willa, aged 12. and Ernest Dickson, aged 19, vere taken to hospital suffering from shocking Injuries. The accident apparently occurred when Hollingsworth was showing his daughter and a friend a collection of war relics. It is thought that the explosion was caused through the aeci dental removal of the safety pin .from the bomb.
The explosion shattered th" r.iom in which the trio were sitting. Hollingsworth evidently was holding the bomb in his hand when it exploded, and to some extent it is believed that, his body shielded the otiters.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 11
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126OLD BOMB EXPLODES Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 11
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