Gladys Ellis Smith - Lithgow, NSW
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S 33° 29.577 E 150° 07.867
56H E 233457 N 6290378
Gladys Ellis Smith was accidentally killed in a motor vehicle accident on August 13, 1935.
Waymark Code: WMWQKG
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 10/03/2017
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Her death was reported in The Telegraph on 14 Aug 1935 as:
WOMAN KILLED
Car Out of Control
Four Seriously Injured
SYDNEY.
Mrs. Gladys Smith, 30, of Lithgow, was killed, and four were seriously injured last night, when a motor car got out of control on a steep incline on Victoria Pass, and crashed into a rocky cutting. A post prevented the car from plunging over a precipice into the valley. The passengers were thrown on to the road and Mrs. Smith was killed instantly.
The Newspaper article is reproduced in Trove Digitised Newspapers, National Library of Australia, the website listed below.
Her headstone is worded:
In loving memory of my dear wife
Gladys Ellis Smith
Accidentally killed Aug. 13, 1935
Type of Death Listed: Accident
Cause of death inscription on headstone: Accident
Website (if available): [Web Link]
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