Gunner’s Death Fall
Overbalancing and falling 20 feet on to the rocks below, a gunner stationed at Battery Point was killed almost instantaneously this morning, says a Christchurch message. The dead man was William David Burke, of 74 Clyde Street, Invercargill, aged 20.
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Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 8
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43Gunner’s Death Fall Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 8
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