LEAVE TRAIN SMASH
TRAGEDY ON CONTINENT (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 14. Twenty-first Army Group Headquarters announced officially that 26 British and Canadian troops were killed. 60 injured, and some seriously hurt.when a leave train collided head-on with another near Goch. An Army captain, who was a passenger on the train from Brussels, told the Associated Press that the trains were “ criminally overladen with troops.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25563, 15 August 1945, Page 6
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65LEAVE TRAIN SMASH Evening Star, Issue 25563, 15 August 1945, Page 6
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