HOME GUARDS INJURED
(0.C.) AUCKLAND, April 13. Three Home Guards were injured v-hen the Army lorry they were loading with logs at Waiwera was struck by a service bus on Saturday. The men were taken in an Army truck to an E.P.S. dressing station at the Silverdale Public Hall for treatment before being conveyed to the Auckland Hospital.
While the men were at the dressing station it was inspected by the building committee of the Auckland Hospital Board, members of which were returning from an inspection of the Warkvvorth Hospital. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hardie Neil also inspected the station. Mr. Allan J. Moody, chairman of the board, said it was a good, real test for the station.
Only one of the injured men was admitted fib hospital. He is Mr. William Henry Lee, aged 26, single, a share milker, of Coatesville, who had a foot crushed.
Gunner Jack Chambers, of the Royal Canadian Artillery, has been awarded the George Medal. During an enemy air attack a year ago a trailer pump was proceeding to a fire in Beckenham, Kent, when a highexplosive bomb fell about 20ft away. Gunner Chambers, in spite of blazing petrol, assisted a fireman to rescue another fireman.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 6
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200HOME GUARDS INJURED Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 6
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