WAR BOMB EXPLODES
AUSTRALIAN EX-SOLDIER KILLED
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(Recd. May 29, 1 p.m.). SYDNEY, May 29
Edwin Hollingsworth, 44, a returned soldier, was killed, last night, when a Mills bomb, a war souvenir, exploded in his home at Randwick. 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 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 was evidently 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1936, Page 7
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