WOUNDED BY A PENCIL
What was meant as a harmless joke became a serious accident at Aldershot recently. As a result, Gunner John F. Kelly, aged 18, of the 83rd. Battery, llth. Field Brigade, whose home is at Clydebank, has a wound in his chest, inflicted by a pencil which, it is stated, was fired from a Service rifle. It is alleged that Kelly and other soldiers had been joking in a barrackroom at Waterloo Barracks, Aldershot, when one of them put a blank cartridge in the rifle and someone dropped a pencil down the barrel. The trigger Jcaa pulled and Kelly collapsed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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