KILLED ON DUTY

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 28, 8 November 1940, Page 3

KILLED ON DUTY

First New Zealander In England (From the Official War Correspondent in Britain.) LONDON, October 28. One soldier was killed in his billet and two others in the same room were wounded . when an enemy aeroplane, turned from its course by anti-aircraft fire, jettisoned its bombs over southeastern England. The men were just going to bed in the loft of a brick farm building when a bomb fell eight to 10 yards from the foot of a wall against

which, on the other side, their blankets were spread. It burst upward and outward and fragments tore their way through the double-brick wall. The casualties were:—Killed: Private I. S. G. Holms, Waipukurau. Slightly wounded: Private J. Arm strong, Private G. E. Boyle. This is the first death from enemy action of .a New Zealand soldier, while on duty in England, though the second from enemy action while on active service in England, Corporal J. Brown (Wellington) having been killed by a bomb while on leave in London last week. His body has been brought back for burial. . In this area recently also two men lost their lives through shooting accidents and another (making four 'in a month from this cause)^. through being run down on. the- road; by. a motor vehicle in the blackout. In all cases the relatives have been officially advised. Soldiers dying on active service, from whatever cause, are given military funerals and their graves are marked by standard military headstones.