DUTY FIRST.
AN AIRMAN'S DEATH. " Will any gentleman send a tclegwn to my flying corps to Jet them know I hvto met with an accident at Chathim?" These words, according to a witness at an inquest, were the first uttered by Alfred Edward Dalton, aged 32, a naval man attached to the Isle of Grain Flying Station, who, coming suddenly on a bicycle from a cross street at Chatlu-n, was knocked down and run over by a silicon motor-car weighing several tons. A short time beforo his death it the hospital Dalton stated that the car failed to sound its hooter, but two witnesses, besides the driver, gave evidence to the contrary. Dalton consented at the hospital to have one of his legs amputated as the only chance of saving his life, but the serious nature of his injuries and the loss of blood made it inadvisable to perform the operation. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15730, 3 October 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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