Gervase Cooke - Lithgow, NSW
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S 33° 29.534 E 150° 07.986
56H E 233639 N 6290462
Gervase Cooke was accidentally killed in a motor cycle accident on 5 June 1926.
Waymark Code: WMWQ2E
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 09/30/2017
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His death was reported in The Maitland Daily Mercury on 7 June 1926 as:
SKULL FRACTURED.
MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.
When proceeding along the Mudgee road near Lithgow on a motor cycle on Saturday Gervase Cooke aged 20, collided with a horse that ran out from the roadside. Cooke was thrown heavily to the ground and received a fractured skull. He was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries.
The newspaper article is reproduced in Trove Digitised Newspapers, National Library of Australia, the website listed below.
His heavily stained headstone is worded:
Gervase Charles Cooke
Accidentally killed
Feb. 12, 1906 - June 5th, 1926
Type of Death Listed: Accident
Cause of death inscription on headstone: Accidentally killed
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