INSTRUCTOR KILLED
A PREMATURE EXPLOSION
(P.A.) DANNEVIRKE, This Day,
While preparing yesterday afternoon a submarine charge to be used for instructional purposes in connection with a battle practice to be staged later in the afternoon by students at a school of instruction, Sergeant Desmond Laurence Delaney, aged 23, of Marton, a member of the instructional staff, was killed instantly through it exploding. His head was badly shattered.
The presumption was expressed at an inquest that the deceased had either got caught in the string attached to the trip switch or slipped in the mud and released the switch. It was stated that he had done this class of work elsewhere./was an efficient instructor, and knew his job, having demonstrated similar explosions previously. The Coroner's formal finding was that death was due to injuries consequent oh the premature accidental discharge of gelignite.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 8
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