Alexander Duncan - Part Three
Alex Duncan married Mary STANFORD in 1920. (One of the STANFORD girls went on to marry a SPENDELOVE but that's another story). Six years later Alex Duncan died as the result of a blasting accident near Nerang in a quarry. He was working with eight men at the time. He lost three fingers on his right hand and his right elbow was fractured as well as his ribs on his right side. The explosion was so severe that the newspaper reports that: Duncan and Buckley hard hardly a thread of clothes on them. courtesy of the National Library of Austraila Brisbane Courier 31 March 1926 page 7 Alex was suffering severely from shock. He was taken to Brisbane by train but died the following morning. This article is rich in detail and I recommend reading it. My husband and I were fascinated to find a mention of Stanley HINDE in it. Stanley was one of my husband's great uncles or his grandmother's older brother. The ...