FIREWORK DEATH.
Drummer Dyke, of the Ist Royal Warwickshire Regiment, stationed at Woking, died at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aidershot, from injuriea received at a rehearsal of the Searchlight Tattoo. The accident was caused by the ex* plosion of a firework used in a mortar and took place behind Rushmore anas* at a considerable distance from where the Tattoo spectators were to sit. Another soldier was injured.
As a result of the occurrence the committee decided to abolish this kind of firewgrjf and to use
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 8
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85FIREWORK DEATH. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 8
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