STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
While. -Captain A. V. West, of ; the motor-tanker, Stourgatc, was standing on a. steel mat in a doorway of an inn; at Ramsgate a .flash .of lightning, flung.him to' 'the ground. ■ When ■he ■ was .picked up it was found; that, although he - was unharmed, the celluloid , backing: of hi# stud ; bad been burned away. Captain West’aßkinwasunseathed.'butahdlebad been-; burned ; in ’ bis t shirt.- : 'Then,' as ~ he walked away, his braces parted, and: he ran for shelter again. It- was then i discovered that the- flash; had melted ; :the metal buckles of the braces and burnei through the elastic.- . v.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 12
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