WIDOW DIES OF GRIEF

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

WIDOW DIES OF GRIEF

TRAGEDY OF MILITARY CAMP Eleven days after her husband, a noncommissioned officer in the Territorials, lost his life to save his comrades, a grief-stricken wife collapsed and died. Company-Sergeant-Major G. Outlaw met his death while training with the 4th Suffolk Regiment at Roedean Camp, Sussex. He was in charge of a number of Territorials in training. When .he saw a low-flying aeroplane approaching he ordered his men to lie flat on their faces. His order saved them—but he himself was struck by a wing of the aeroplane and killed. At the funeral of Company-Sergeant-Major Outlaw the widow bore herself bravely, and afterward she and an eight-year-old daughter comforted themselves as best they could. But the burden was too great for Mrs Outlaw, and now a little orphan girl mourns a father and mother. Mrs Outlaw, who was 37, lived at Lowestoft. “She died of a broken heart,” a neighbour said. “She and her husband were a devoted couple, and Mrs Outlaw was terribly upset by the accident, which occurred on the eve of the camp breaking up.”