Andrew George Evans (1927 - 1942)

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Died 17 Oct 1942 at about age 15 in Kempsey NSW

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Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate 19 October 1942

BROTHERS FOUND ELECTROCUTED

GRAFTON, Sunday - Two brothers, Les Evans, 15, and Raymond Evans, 8, were electrocuted at their home at Kempsey while trying to repair a broken wireless aerial. They were the sons of Mr. and Mrs. L. Evans, of Smith-street, Kempsey, and had been missing from 7.30 on Saturday morning until the bodies were found at 10.30 last night by a neighbour, Mr. Amos Lewis. Mr. Lewis recalled hearing a scream early on Saturday morning, but paid no attention at the time. At night, he searched in the direction from whih the scream had come, and, climbing a fence, stumbled over the bodies of the two boys. The younger was holding the aerial. The elder boy apparently died trying to release his brother. The aerial was dead when the bodies were found. It has not yet been disclosed how it became electrified. The boys' father is on military service in Sydney.