BOY CARRIES LIVE SHELL
A 15-year-old farmhand of St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire, on March 30 picked up an unexploded four-inch shell ami carried it to tlie farm where be was working. Placing it on the ground, lie remarked that it might be something from a motor-car, but others at the farm immediately realized that it was a live shell and informed the police. Experts stated that the youth had a remarkable escape, as the heat of his hand might easily-have caused the shell to explode. The shell had been fired by a naval vessel at German aircraft which raided Seapa Flow during the previous weekend.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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104BOY CARRIES LIVE SHELL Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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