TERRITORIAL KILLED
THROWN FROM MOTOR CYCLE
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday.
A Territorial. Driver Albert William Blackwood, aged 19, of Caversham, Dunedin, suffered fatal injuries when riding a motor cycle on the main Akaroa Road this morning. Driver Blackwood was thrown from the motor cycle at a sharp bend about a mile and a half on the Christchurch side of Akaroa. The machine apparently got out of control in loose shingle and he was thrown over a bank into a paddock. He died within a few minutes.
Another member of the convov met with an accident at the same point, but his injuries \vers» not serious. He was admitted to a military hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 8
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111TERRITORIAL KILLED Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 8
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