ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3580, 16 September 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FATALITY AT TANGIWAL RETURNED SOLDIER KILLED. A returned soldier, William Henry Whiting, a son of the late Mr James Henry Whiting, Palmerston North, was killed in a bush sawmill at Tangiwai, on the Main Trunk line last week. The circumstances are particularly sad. The young man was only 24 years of age and had played a noble part in the fight for the Empire. Enlisting with the Third Reinforcements in the early part of the war he saw service in Egypt and France, was promoted to the rank of corporal, and was awarded the Military Medal. He was wounded four times, the last time rather seriously in the leg, and was eventually discharged in New Zealand in July, 19.18. Deceased then went with a younger brother to the King Country and waslatterly employed at the sawmill

mentioned above. On Wednesdaybo was riding on a bush tram line conveying logs to' the mill and was by some unfortunate misadventure thrown off and under the trucks. The full weight of the loaded trucks crushed the body into an almost unrecognisable condition. The younger lad was on another truck and was horrified at the tragic end of his soldiet brother.