FATHER'S TRAGIC END
HIT BY A TREE TRUNK How Mr. Herman Glauert, an pjr expert with a world-wide reputation, was killed in the presence of his wife and children was described by his widow in London a few weeks ago. Mr. Glauert, who was 41, was the principal scientific officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, J< arn borough, Hants, and was famous for mathematical work in connection with aeronautical science. On Saturday he visited Norris Bridge, Aldershot. " My husband, his brother, myself and our three children were on the common," said Mrs. Glauert. 1 saw soldiers about, and it appeared that thev were going to blow up a tree trunk. The people were asked to stand back Thev went about forty yards from the trunk, and then another fifty into the wood. My brother-in-law was standing behind a tree, and ny husband was with the children about fi/ceen yards farther back. " The explosion occurred, and a nuge piece of trunk shot into the air, over the tree behind which my brother-in-law was standing, and fell on my husband, who was holding my little daughter's hand. My daughter released her hand and stepped back. The stump struck my husband on the temple. Ihe children were not hurt."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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206FATHER'S TRAGIC END New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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