WOUNDED BY A PENCIL
What was meant as a harmless jokfll becamp a serious accident at Aldershot recently. As a result, Gunner John F. Kelly, aged 18, of the 83rd Battery, 11th 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 sol'' diers had been joking in a barrack roomi 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 was pulled and Kelly collapsed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22716, 31 October 1935, Page 13
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