TWO MEN KILLED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23324, 6 October 1945, Page 4

TWO MEN KILLED

Army T ruck Goes Over Bank Eighteen Others Injured (N.Z.P.A., WELLINGTON. Oct. 5. An Army truck conveying a party of 20 men from the Trentham Army Ordnance Depot going on daily duty to a post in the Belmont area, west of the Hutt Valley, crashed down a 400-foot hillside this morning. One man was killed outright and another died al' e» admission to the Hutt Hospital. The truck, with the driver and another man in the cab, was proceeding up the hill. When passing a taxi drawn up cn the inner Dank it left the road and crashed through thick undergrowth and bush to the bed of a stream 400 feet below. Soldiers who received only minor injuries had miraculous escapes. The canvas canopy on the rear of the truck was crushed and broken in the headlong descent, but the vehicles high sides largely protected the men m the rear. Amoulances. both civilian and army, were summoned immediately by the taxidriver, and rescue work ’was begun The casualty list is:— Killed Private R. Cameron. Wellington. Died of Injuries in Hospital Lance-Corporal T. R. Beach. Nelson. Seriously Injured Corporal N. A. Prior, driver of the truck. Shannon, back injuries. Injured Sergeant T. A. b. Claridge, Levin, shcck and head injuries. Corporal W. M. Hugh, xs.iib.rnie. broken ribs. Corporal J. R. Parker, Hawera. Private N. F. Bond, Dunedin. Private V. E. T. Nicholas. Hastings. Private R. J. Willis, Fatea. Private C. C. Rankin, address unknown. In Trentham Military Hospital For Observation Sergeant J. A. Pir.xam, Christchurch Sergeant E. S. C. Ellery. Wellington. Corporal H. W. D lieu, Hunterville. Corporal A. K. I ansfield. Wellington. Lance-Corporal T. George, Ohau. Private F. A. Eilis, Lower Hutt. Private G. H. Clough, New Plymouth. Private J. A. Hockly, Ashhurst. It is expected that all eight will be discharged by to-inorrow.