Douglas George Rix Gordon

Douglas Gordon was knocked down.

He had left his house, Freshfields in Kings Drive to go to a rehearsal of the Dramatic Society. He was found by a lorry driver on the Kings Road as he was heading towards Eastbourne near the bend by St Georges School ground. He said that Douglas Gordon was lying in the middle of the road on his face and said that he tried to make him comfortable and sent a cyclist off to get the police. He said that Douglas Gordon was lying in a dark spot where trees obscured the light, lying approximately midway between two lamp posts.