FIRE EXPLODES SHELL.
SEVEN MEN KILLED. Bj Cable. — l'ress Association. — Copyright. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Nov. 4. A section of the British Labour Corps, engaged in exhuming isolated corpses and reburying them in new cemeteries, lit a camp fire on a famous battlefield two miles northward of Poelcapelle. The heat exploded a German shell, killing seven men and wounding three. =====
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1789, 7 November 1919, Page 7
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