SOLDIER KILLED
BRAWL OVER NATIONAL ANTHEM IN CANADA. VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) OTTAWA, December 17. A fight between Canadian soldiers as to whether God Save the King or O Canada should be sung as the Dominion National Anthem resulted in the death of Private Grey Rodgers An inquest determined that soldiers of Les Fusiliers Mont Royal, who favoured O (Canada, and members of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, who wanted God Save the King, fought a battle on Saturday night. The brawl started when some soldiers, at the closing time of a gathering, sang God Save the King. The French-Canadians remained seated and demanded the singing of O Canada, and both anthems were sung. Then the lights went out and fighting began
A verdict of accidental death was returned after the enquiry into Rodgers’s death
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421218.2.47
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
145SOLDIER KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in