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Show Officer's Darlnrj Cost Life. An accident during bombing practice, v.hlch caused the death of Lieut. fSeorgo Stanley Charles linker, twenty itais old, of tho Duke of Cornwall's light Infantry, was Investigated at freshwater. Isle of Wight, says tho I.iimhm Chronicle. The jilting olllcer, who had been to the front, was In ihargo of a bombing clans, when the lut of the party, a young snldkr mimed Hojle, In throwing throw-ing his last bomb, failed to clear the parapet. Lieutenant Ilnkir endeaored to en teh the grenade when It lehniiiid-oil, lehniiiid-oil, but let It slip and while trjlng to regain It tho missile burst aud killeo him. Sergeant Instructor Allen, who grabbed iloj lo and threw him Into mifo-ty, mifo-ty, wild Lieutenant linker had time to reach saftKy If ho had uot attempted to throw the bomb clear. He had successfully suc-cessfully thrown away a bomb dropped la. a Blinllur wax too. uruylouj day. |