New Zealand Soldiers Killed in England.
A London cable records a railway accident at Bore Ferrers, just outside Plymouth, .by which nine New Zealanders were .killed and several injured. They had just landed and went to the rear of the train to get rations, when an express dashed past at 40 miles an hour, mangling the victims so that they could scarcely be identified. W. J. Trussall, ono of the injured men, subseqently died in the Fairsloch Hospital. Names of the Victims. (Received This Day 10.60 a.m.) London, Sept. 2(5. The inquest on the New Zealanders kill led at Here Ferrers was adjourned (tili Monday after tlie identification Of the following: Privates iW. S. Jackson, G. J. Kirton, B. A. IMomrydto, R. V. McKenna-, W S. GiHanders, J. F. Warden, ,W. F. Graves, and J. Judgo. Private W. J. Trussell will be given a military funeral at Plymouth on j Thursday.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 September 1917, Page 3
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151New Zealand Soldiers Killed in England. Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 September 1917, Page 3
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