AMPUTATED OWN ARM
MINER TRAPPED BY FALL OF COAL (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. After chopping off his left arm with an axe when trapped by a fall of coal at a south coast mine, Alfred Burgess, aged 39, a miner, remained conscious and spoke to his rescuers. His spine and left leg were fractured, but he is expected to recover. Burgess amputated his arm a few inches below the elbow by a single cut with the axe which he carried in his belt. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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