Boy Snatched Sentry’s Revolver, Shot Himself
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) . .SYDNEY, This Day. A 14-vear-old boy snatched a revolver from an R.A.A.F. sentry’s holster, put the revolver to his head and shot himself dead., The seniry, with holster strappeo to his side, was on duty in a sontrybox at an R.A.A.F. aerodrome. . The boy had been in the habit of playing about the aerodrome on holiday-:. Yesierday he and another boy were sitting in the sentrybox when the boy suddenly snatched the sentry’s revolver placed the muzzle over his right ear and pulled the trigger.
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Northern Advocate, 5 March 1945, Page 5
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