KILLED IN ACTION
YOUNG MEMBER OF BRITISH HOME GUARD
MACHINE-GUNNED BY NAZI PLANE.
WHILE PATROLLING RAILWAY LINE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)
(Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON. August 11
The nineteen-year-old Ronald Nesbitt is the first member of the Home Guard to be killed in action. He was patrolling a railway line when a German plane dived from the clouds and machine-gunned him. Almost every Australian and New Zealand journalist in London, in common with non-military. able-bodied Englishmen, parades with the Home Guard when his normal work is finished.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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