Leslie James Winter - Goulburn, NSW
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S 34° 44.685 E 149° 45.217
55H E 752084 N 6151808
Leslie James Winter died as the result of a lorry accident on 22 October 1940.
Waymark Code: WMWPQP
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 09/28/2017
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The circumstances leading to his death were reported in the Goulburn Evening Post on 22 October 1940 as:
Young Man Killed
Lorry Capsize At Tarlo
Leslie James Winter, 22, of The Forest was killed and his fiancee, Miss Irene Wright, of 43 Kinghorne Street, Goulburn had a remarkable escape when the lorry in which they were travelling capsized on the Taralga Road, about 13 miles from Goulburn last night.
Winter who was trapped in the crushed cabin of the lorry appeared at first to have died from suffocation, but a medical examination disclosed that his neck had been broken.
The newspaper article is reproduced in Trove Digitised Newspapers, National Library of Australia, the website listed below.
His headstone is worded:
In loving memory of our dear son
Leslie James Winter
Accidentally killed
21st October 1940 aged 22 years.
Type of Death Listed: Accident
Website (if available): [Web Link]
Cause of death inscription on headstone: Not listed
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