Geoffrey Leonard NEEDHAM

1930 - 1949  (19 years)

• Name	Geoffrey Leonard NEEDHAM
  Birth	1930  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Apr 1949	Gisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand   [2, 3]
  	Cause: Road Accident
  Burial	Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand   [2]
  Person ID	I16195	NZ Genealogy Project | WALLACE Descendant
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	Leonard John Strathmore NEEDHAM [Len],   b. 25 May 1906, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand d. 01 Aug 1969, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Alice Eileen BENNETT [Eileen],   b. 12 Sep 1911, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand d. 03 Aug 1990, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1929	Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F5347	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Death - Cause: Road Accident - 17 Apr 1949 - Gisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand Burial - - Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  MOTOR-CYCLIST'S DEATH AFTER HITTING CAR Injured in a collision between the motor-cycle he was riding and a car at the intersection of Wainui road and Kaiti esplanade on the night of April 14, Geoffrey Leonard Needham, aged 19, single, died in the Cook Hospital three days later. At the inquest held in Gisborne yesterday the coroner, Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., found that Needham died from lacerations of the brain and intercranial haemorrhage associated with a fracture of the skull. Medical evidence to this effect was given by Dr. Barbara F. Cubit, house surgeon at the Cook Hospital. She described Needham's injuries when he was admitted to the hospital on April 14. Charles Leslie Wells, Hexton, driver of the car with which Needham collided, stated that he was turning from Wainui road into Kaiti esplanade when the motor-cycle collided with the front of the car. Needham was thrown to the ground. An eye-witness of the collision, Horace Thompson, also gave evidence as to the position of the vehicles and Needham's fall to the road. Evidence was given by Constable B. J. Simpson. Senior-Sergeant G. S. Norris conducted the proceedings for the police. Source: Gisborne Herald, 14 June 1949, Page 8. DEATH FOLLOWS ACCIDENT P.A., GISBORNE, April 17. A motor cyclist, George Leonard Needham, a clerk, aged 19, who was sent to Cook Hospital on Thursday night suffering from serious injuries following a collision with a car, died early this morning. The deceased was the son of Mr and Mrs L. Needham, of Whakatane, and had been working in Gisborne for some months. Source: Otago Daily Times, 18 April 1949, Page 6.

  
  

• Sources

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