V.C.’s TRAGIC DEATH
EATAL RIFLE ACCIDENT
LONDON, .lanuaiy 21. Sgt. John Brunton Daykins. V.(.
died yesterday at Jedburgh. Roxburghshire, while being conveyed to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary suffering from wounds caused by a rifle. Sgt. Davkins was found unconscious ;:i his home. Howden Earm. near Jedburgh. He had linen using Um rifle, a.nd i' is believed tiiat it. wen: oft acc.ideiii.ally. wounding him on the head. lie was 1!) years ol age, and ii.nmart icd. Though he had been suffering from influenza, he imd recovered, am! was in bis usual spirits before Ihi' accident. Sai. Daykin ~ who was in the ) <>rk. and Lancaster Kegimcnl ('[’.!•’ .1 received Ute Victoria Cross for hi.- services durin.g operations at Solei-me., (luring the war. tn face of luavi fire ii" enabled his party to rush a machine gun. During' subsequent hand-1.0-haml I'ighUng he himself di--, posed of many of th" em.-iny. I!e i then located another iiiacliine-eun.' ami under heavy fire ho weid forward alone to Die post, ami shortly afterwards returned, driving tw< nly-l’ive of the enemy before him ami carrying tile much i m‘-git n on his shoulder. Alter the. war Sgt. Davkins received the I’Teedom of Jed’mirgh.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 8
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