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| 21 JUNIOR SOLDIERS HURT AS LORRY PLUNGES 70ft. |
| Twenty-one young soldiers, members of the Junior All Arms Regiment at Tonfannau Camp, Merioneth, were injured when the lorry in which they were travelling plunged of the road and rolled seventy feet down a slope, yesterday. |
| There were twenty-one boy soldiers in the lorry and it was one of a convoy on its way to a camp in Montgomeryshire. The accident happened on the narrow Llanwrin road, near the village of Cemmaes. It is believed that the edge of the road subsided. The convoy was moving at a slow speed at the time. |
| Ambulances from Montgomeryshire, Cardiganshire and Merioneth were rushed to the scene, and fifteen of the boys some of them on stretchers, were taken to Aberystwyth Hospital, which for a while resembled a war-time casualty clearing station. |
| Eight of the more seriously injured were detained, one was transferred to Morriston Hospital and six were transferred, after treatment, to sick quarters at Tonfannau Camp. |
| The other six who received minor bruises and scratches were given first-aid at Machynlleth Hospital. |
| This section of road through the Dovey Valley has been the scene of several similar accidents in recent years. |
| Junior Sergeant from Prescot |
| The more seriously injured boys are: Junior Private J.W. Dennis, of Cudworth, near Barnsley; and Junior Private D.S. Dows, of Brough, Yorkshire both seriously injured); Junior privates E.R. Bishop, of Saltash, Cornwall; T.K. Lay, Lowestoft; C.R. Lawrence, of Coles Hill, Swindon; Junior Fusilier R.J. Heals, of Plumstead, London; Junior Sergeant K. Briggs, of Prescot, Liverpool; and Junior Gunner K.J. Dent, of Brockworth, Gloucester, who has been transferred to Morriston Hospital, Swansea. |
| The civilian driver of the lorry, Mr G.H. Franklin, of Llwyngwril, Merioneth, who was also detained at Aberystwyth Hospital, is to be transferred to Chester Hospital today. |
| A spokesman at Aberystwyth hospital said last night that junior privates Dennis and Dows were still seriously ill. The others had improved slightly since admission. Junior Gunner Dent, the spokesman said, had now been allowed to return to camp. |
| 3 Tonner Accident At Cemmaes Road. |
| 23rd September 1965. |
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