MILLS BOMB TRAGEDY
WAR RELIC EXPLODES IN HOME RETURNED SOLDIER KILLED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copj’right SYDNEY, May 29. (Received May 29, at 11.55 a.m.) Edwin Hollingsworth (44), a returned soldier, was killed last night when a Mills bomb, a war souvenir, exploded in his home at llandwick. His daughter Willa (12) and Ernest Dickson (19) were sent 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 accidental removal of the safety pin from the bomb. The explosion shattered the room 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 others.
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Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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136MILLS BOMB TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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