CHEMIST’S TRAGIC DEATH
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An inquest was held at Lambeth on John James Wood, of Merton, works chemists at the Kale Chemical Works. Vauxliill, who sustained fatal injuries through being caught in a at the Works. Sergeant Charles Woods, of the West Kent, said that at the outbreak of the war his son set out to discover how certain chemicals hitherto ihade by Germans were produced, and be succeeded in finding out the secret of the production of certain acids used in the manufacture of asperin. The Coroner: You look over military age? » Sergeant Woods: I am, sir, but I went to do my bit all the same. I have just come from the Somme where I was acting as rationing sergeant and running to and fro with food to the boys. it was stated that while deceased; was inspecting the gauges at the works his clothing caught in the gearwheel of the shafting, and he was pulled round, sustaining fatal injuries. His left arm and leg were torn off.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4476, 17 February 1917, Page 5
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172CHEMIST’S TRAGIC DEATH Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4476, 17 February 1917, Page 5
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