Age: 19
Sex: female
Date: 23 Jul 1946
Place: TW Weale, Contractors, Church Street, Egremont
Gertrude Maude Partridge died in an explosion at the office that she had been working in.
A verdict of death by misadventure was returned at her inquest after it was heard that she had accidently overturned a petrol tin in the room whilst she was trying to burn some toast in a fire.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 25 July 1946
see Shields Daily News - Tuesday 23 July 1946
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Tuesday 30 July 1946
see Unsolved 1946
