DOMINION NEWS
SERGEANT KILLED.
PA. DANNEVIRKE, Nov. 21. Sergeant Stuart Cotter, 23. single, son of Colin Cotter. Brentwood Avenue, Mt. Eden. Auckland, attached to the staff of the Central School of Instruction, was killed instantly yesterday afternoon, during rifle control practice.
He was riding alone in a lorry, following the troous during range practice by a class of junior non-com-missioned officers, when an unspent bullet from a Bren gun in the back of the lorrv hit him in tho back of the head. Death was instantaneous. The bullet was the last round of the magazine used in the first practice. Evidence at the inquest disclosed that apparently it had been retained in the gun despite the customary precautions, and had been discharged through friction, caused by the jolting of the lorry over rough ground.
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Grey River Argus, 23 November 1942, Page 6
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