YOUNG MAN KILLED
MILITARY CROSS WINNER BUS AND TRUCK COLLIDE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 23. The holder of a Military Cross received fatal injuries and another man was injured when a Railway Road Services bus collided with a parked truck on the main highway north of Ohinewai on Saturday night. The victim, who died in the Waikato Hospital, was: Mr. Frederick John Lea, aged 26, Te Awamutu. The injured man was Mr. Thomas Alfred Anderson, Mount Eden, who received lacerations to the leg. The two men were sitting on the lefthand'side of the bus, which was completely torn out by the impact. Three other passengers sitting on the other side of the bus escaped injury. Mr. Lea served in the Middle East campaigns and was the first New Zealand officer to be wounded in Italy. He was mentioned in dispatches and later awarded the Military Cross and the American Silver Star, which he was to have received on July 4. ’ Mr Lea returned to New Zealand with the rank of temporary major 18 months ago.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22363, 23 June 1947, Page 2
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