LEWIS GUN MISHAP.
MILITIAMAN DISCHABGED. Action has been taken by the Minister for Defence in Victoria (Mr Chifley) to deal with an officer and a nqn-commissioned officer of the militia, who were involved in a recent fatal accident resulting from the firing of a Lewis gun. The coroner’s inquiry disclosed that Claud James Ward, aged 18, a corporal. in the 14th Battalion, obtained permission from Lieutenant lan Macrae, after practice on 'the Williamstown rifle range, to take home a Lewis gun. That night, when demonstrating the working of the gun to his cousin, Ward accidentally fired it. A bullet pierced an adjoining wall, and fatally wounded Miss Anna Lilias Sinclair, who was hying in bed. Mr Chifley announced that Ward would be discharged from the military forces, and that Lieutenant Macrae’s commission would be cancelled unless he was able to furnish a satisfactory explanation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 12
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144LEWIS GUN MISHAP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 12
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