V.C. KILLED
SPARROW RESPONSIBLE. LONDON, November 1. Out in France in 1917, four British soldiers were shot dead while trying to cross 400 yards of “no man’s land to bring reinforcements to one section of the line. Then Alfred Wilkinson volunteered to go. By extraordinary skill he got across the country exposed to enemy fire, and delivered his message. For doing so he was awarded the V.C. A few days ago Wilkinson (now 43 and doing his bit in this war as a special constable) was found dead—gassed—in the laboratory at Bicker - shaw Colliery, Leigh, Lancashire, where he was a tester. He had been killed by a sparrow which had lodged in a furnace pipe and caused carbon monoxide to accumulate in the laboratory.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1940, Page 10
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