Fri 17th Jul 1942 Kalgoorlie Miner
BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED ON WARBURTON RANGES TRACK
LAVERTON AMBULANCE LONG TRIP
About noon yesterday, the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200-mile trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor trailer. The boy is John William Wade, the 13-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Wade, senior missionaries at the Warburton Range Mission.
Wally Mack and John Wade (aged 13) at Mt Margaret Mission, 1942 – Taken shortly before John’s death.
The boys’ known injuries are a fractured ankle, fractured thigh, probable fracture of the knee, internal injuries and extensive bruises and lacerations. According to the latest reports yesterday, he has been rendered first aid on the track by the missioners and was awaiting, in mulga stick splints, the arrival of the ambulance. He is said to be very bright and cheery and bearing up well.
Off to Warburton – Will and Iris Wade with their children John and Carol, Harry Green, Ethel and Harry Lupton, 3 Oct 1934.
The report of the accident came from the Laverton police, on information received by radio sent from the portable transmitter on the vehicle. According to it, the accident occurred on Wednesday. The Warburton Range mission tractor-trailer transport vehicle was en route to the mission, on a routine trip, when the boy, a passenger, was jolted from the vehicle by a bump. He fell to the track, and one wheel passed diagonally over his body. Other passengers were Mr C. E. Payne, a missionary at the Warburton and the boy’s 10-year-old sister, Carol, with Mr Wally Mack, the driver. The Laverton ambulance took Mr Syd Williams, of the Morgans mission, as a guide, and arrangements have been made for another vehicle to be sent to the Warburton for the boy’s parents.
