SOLDIER KILLED
STRUCK BY TRAIN. TRAGEDY AT MILITARY CAMP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. February 4. Instant death overtook a soldier at the Hopuhopu Military Camp when he was struck by the north-bound Matamata race train at the camp siding at 8.5 last night. He was: — Gunner Alexander Fortescue Pearce, aged 24. a member of the Fifth Field Battery, New Zealand Artillery. No one saw the accident, but the train crew felt a bump when passing the camp. The train was stopped and an investigation showed that the soldier had been run over and shockingly injured. Gunner Pearce, who had been a clerk in a wool store in Wellington, was the son of Mr and Mrs G. F. Pearce, 6 Braithwaite Street Karori, Wellington. He was single and had entered camp on the day before his death.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1940, Page 4
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