CORONER’S TRIBUTE
SOLDIER VICTIMS FALL BENEATH TRAIN (Por Press Association / INVERCARGILL, this day. At the conclusion of the inquest on James Thomas Nelson and George Joseph Sheedy, who lost their lives through falling from a moving troop train at Edendale on December 14, the coroner, Mr. R. C. Abernethy, S.M., found that both had died as a result of multiple injuries through falling under the train. He expressed sympathy with the parents of the two men.
“I think it proper as coroner to add my expressions of sympathy to those already expressed,” he said. “There is not much one can say at such a time, but the parents and the relatives have the satisfaction of knowing that the deceased soldiers offered the integrity of their bodies to the country and were prevented from going overseas by the tragedy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20125, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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