INSTRUCTOR KILLED
Premature Explosion
(P.A.) DANNEVIRKE, October 31. While preparing a submarine charge to have been used for instructional purposes in battle practice to be staged later in the afternoon by students of the Central District School of Instruction, Sergeant Desmond Laurance Delaney, aged 23, belonging to Marton, of the instructional staff, was killed instantly by a premature explosion. The presumption expressed at the inquest was that the deceased’s hand was either caught in the string attached to the trip switch or that he might have slipped in the mud and released the switch. He had done this class of work elsewhere and was an efficient instructor who knew his job, having demonstrated similar explosions previously. The Coroner’s formal finding was that death was due to injuries consequent on the premature and accidental discharge of gelignite.
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Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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136INSTRUCTOR KILLED Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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