MILITARY CAMP FATALITY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 6

MILITARY CAMP FATALITY

— Presa Association.)

Man's Head Crushed By Waggon Wheel THROWN FROM HORSE

By Telesrraph-

ROTORUA, Last Night. Shirley Roland Hargreaves, aged 23, of Auckland, a Farrier-Sergeant attached to the 4th Battery N.Z.F.A., in camp at Rotorua, was accidentally killed this aftemoon when he was thrown from a horse and fell under the wheel of a jheavy military waggon to which horses iwere attached. Hargreaves and Bombadier Morey were engaged in harnessing horses which were restive. . Morey went for assistance and as he was refurning he saw Hargreaves who had mounted one of the horses, thrown between the team. Hargreaves fell on the'pole bar land the horses toox fright and bolted. |He clung to the bar for twenty yards land then lost his grip to fall to the tground, a wheel passing over his head. [He died instantly. Farrier-Sergeant Hargreaves was a ,son of Mr and Mrs R. K. Hargreaves, lof Mount Hobson road, Remuera. He was born in Auckland and was eduicated at Parnell School and King's Coljlege, where he was in the second fif teen |for six years. He was a member of the jchoir of St. Mary's Cathedral and after ileaving school he became . a popular jmember of the siaff of the Auckland [Drug Company. His interest in horses ■began when he was a boy and he joined ithe 4th Battery some years ago. He! only recently obtained the rank of [Farrier-Sergeant after an examination. 'For three consecutive years he won the •Battery 's driving competition. Mr and Mrs Hargreaves lost a daughter four months ago.