FATE OF SOLDIERS
FALL FROM TROOP TRAIN SYMPATHY OF CORONER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday At the conclusion of an inquest into the deaths of two soldiers, James Thomas Nelson and George Joseph Sheedy, who lost their lives through falling from a moving troop train at Edendale on December 14, the coroner, Mr Abernethy, found that both died as the result of multiple injuries received through falling under the train. He expressed sympathy with the parents of the two men.
“I think it proper as coroner to add my expressions of sympathy to those already expressed,” he said. “There is not much one can say at such a time, but the parents and relatives : have the satisfaction of Knowing that the deceased soldiers offered tlieir integrity and their bodies to their country, and were prevented from going overseas by the tragedy. It can at least be said of them, as said a king of old, ‘lt was good that it was in their hearts to oerve their country.’ ”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20992, 20 December 1939, Page 9
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168FATE OF SOLDIERS Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20992, 20 December 1939, Page 9
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