The
Avenue, Flitwick c.1920 [Z50/50/41]
Tuesday
13th August 1918: Yesterday evening an employee of the George
Kent Ltd. works at Chaul End was killed in an unfortunate accident. Wilfred Joy
of The Ridgway, Flitwick, was employed as a fitter at the works, and at about
5.30pm he was apparently unscrewing or doing something with a large fire
extinguisher. He was holding the extinguisher between his knees, when for some
reason the bottom blew out and the point of the cylinder struck him over the
left eye, rebounding between thirty and forty feet. Mr. Joy was taken to the
Bute Hospital, where he died at about eight o’clock. A considerable amount of
gas escaped in the explosion, and it is not clear whether the cause of death
was the injury or the gas. Mr. Joy’s body was identified by his brother Charles
Joy, a wheelwright of Leighton Road, Toddington. He told the inquest that his
brother was 36 years old, single, and lived with their sister, Mrs. Cunningham.
The inquest was adjourned to allow a post-mortem examination to be carried out.
Source:
Luton News, 15th August 1918
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