LORRY FATALITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22353, 26 February 1936, Page 14

LORRY FATALITY

GTJNNER AT DEVONPORT s ______ FALL FROM VEHICLE ATTEMPT TO PICK UP CAP A gunner in the Royal New Zealand Artillery, Mr. Hamilton Roland Dean Freeman Thompson, aged 22, was killed yesterday when he fell from the running-board of a Post and Telegraph Department lorry at Dovonport. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Thompson, of Park Avenue, Mangere. The accident occurred shortly. after mid-day, when Mr. Thompson was returning from the Narrow Neck camp to the artillery barracks at North Head. He was seated in the cab of the lorry beside the driver, who was a Post and Telegraph Department employee. Another departmental lorry was travelling ahead,with two artillerymen, who were sitting with thoir backs to the cab. As the second lorry approached tho corner of Tui Street and Tainui Road, one of tho two men lost his cap, which was blown off on to the road. Mr. Thompson stepped ,out of the cab on to the running-board in order to rotriovo the cap, and his feet apparently slipped, for he fell and rolled under the wheels, being killed almost instantly. Dr. S. G. de Clivo Lowe and Dr. H. C. Bennett were called, but Mr. Thompson was then doad. The body was removed to the artillery barracks in a St. John ambulance and later taken to the city. An inquest will be opened this morning before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., coroner.