CAMP SIDING TRAGEDY
GUNNER STRUCK BY TRAIN [Pbk United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 4. Instant death overtook a soldier at the Hopuhopu military camp when he was struck by a northbound Matamata race train at the camp siding just after 8 o’clock last night. He was Gunner Alexander Fortescue Pearce, aged 24 years, a member of the sth Field Battery, New Zealand Artillery. No one witnessed the accident, but the train crew felt a bump when passing the camp. The train was stopped, and investigation showed that a soldier had been run over and shockingly injured. The deceased, who had been a clerk in a wool store in Wellington, was the son of Mr and Mrs G. F. Pearce, of 6 Braithwaito street, Karori, Wellington. He was single, and had entered camp on the day before his death.
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Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 6
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138CAMP SIDING TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 6
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