HOLDER OF MILITARY CROSS KILLED IN COLLISION
AUCKLAND, July 22. A holder of the Military Cross received tatai injuries and another man was injured when a railway road Services bus collided with a parked truftk on the main highway north of OhineAvai on .Saturday night. The victim, who died in the Waikato hospital, was Mr. Frederick John Lea, aged 26, of Te Awamutu. The injured man was Mr. Thoraas Alfred Anderson, of Mount Eden, Who received lacerations to the leg. The two men were sitting on the left hand side of the bus which was completely torn out by the impact. Three other passengers sitting on the other side of the bus escaped injury. Mr. Lea'served in the Middle East campaigns and was the first New Zealand officer to be wounded iu Italy. He was mentioned in despatches and was later awarded the Military Cross and the American Silver Star which he was: to have received on July 4. Mr. Lea returned to Ne\}f Zealand with the rank of temporary Major 18 months ago.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 June 1947, Page 2
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