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STAPLES, George Edward
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| Service Number: | 2858 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 18 April 1913 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Cerberus (Shore) |
| Born: | Parkside, SA, 20 April 1896 |
| Home Town: | Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Crushed hand (workplace accident), Semaphore, Adelaide, SA, 13 August 1920, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Extract from the Adelaide, SA paper the "Chronicle" dated 21 August 1920 (p.37):
DEATH FOLLOWS ACCIDENT.
Mr. George Staples, of Dudley-street,
Semaphore, who had his left hand crushed
by a pile-driving monkey at Messrs. Poole
and Steele's shipbuilding yards on August
6, died at the Adelaide Hospital on August
13.
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