DROWNED IN CANAL
CANADIAN OFFICERS TRAGIC DEMONSTRATION (9.30 a.m.) “OTTAWA July 3. The Canadian Defence Minister, Col. J. L. Ralston, announced the drowning of two cadets at the Brockville officer training centre in a demonstration attack, involving swimming a canal with full equipment. Thirty men dived in to cross the canal, but six failed to rise. A dozen civilans dived in and dragged four out, but the bodies of two were not recovered for nearly 15 minutes. Meanwhile, the remaining soldiers negotiated the canal and “captured ’ a police station on the other side. Col. Ralston and hundreds of spectators who crowded the banks witnessed the tragedy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 3
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