Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1916 — Officer's Daring Cost Life. [ARTICLE]

Officer's Daring Cost Life.

An accident during bombing practice, which caused the death of Lieut. George Stanley Charles Baker, twenty years oldr of the Duke of Corn wail’s light infantry, was investigated at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, says the London Chronicle. , j|jjj The young officer, who had been to the front, was in charge of a bombing class, when the last of the party, a young soldier- named Boyle, in throwing his last bomb, failed to clear the parapet. Lieutenant Baker endeavored to catch the grenade when it rebounded, but let it slip and while trying to regain it the missile burst and- killed him. ’ Sergeant Instructor Allen, who grabbed Boyle and threw him into safety, said Lieutenant Baker had time to reach safety if he had not attempted to throw the bomb clear. He had successfully thrown away a bomb dropped, in a similar way the previous day.