TRAPPED IN SENTRY-BOX
BUCKINGHAM PALACE GUARDSMAN. Just after tin: Irish Guards had gone off duty at .Buckingham Palace i.nu lecent miuiy morning a strange adieu ture bel'ei one of the Grenadiers on first relief. Guardsman Sharpelis was stand.n„ immediately outside tlie Palace gates m irout oi iiis sentry-box with bayonet fixed when a terrific gust of wind hit tiie seni-ry-oox, and it lOiuipsed on top of him. “Only my bearskin saved me, no said aitenvards. “it happened in a flasli.
“1 had not been long on relief anu there were several people a,bout when 1 felt something strike me on the hues of the head, and the next moment I
was in darkness.” Actually, the sentry was imprisoned in his own box like a sardine in a tin
"Aly bayonet, fortunately, fell flat under me. and I escaped injury, but "»j a few moments I was dazed and wondered what had happened. • “They hauled the box off me and then took me into the Palace YavGa ter I was able to go on duty again.” Guarddman 'ShawpeJs is ue.i 6.t., and his bearskin stands higher than the sentry-box entrance
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1932, Page 8
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189TRAPPED IN SENTRY-BOX Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1932, Page 8
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