Was it a horse in the military parade on Saturday 15 October 1870 that caused the death of Gunner Theodosius William Poulden?
At about half past 3, horses, their handlers, a gun carriage with Gunners Poulden and Helion seated on the limber, moved from the William Street barracks of No. 1 Battery of the Queensland Volunteer Artillery.
Suddenly, the horses bolted towards Government House.
Poulden tried to get onto the ammunition wagon but fell under the wheel of the carriage. Horrified spectators watched as all control of the horses was lost until Queen Street. Gunner Poulden, a clerk in the Queensland Government was taken to hospital but died of “severe internal injury” the next day.
The inquest concluded the cause of death to be “run over by a gun carriage”.
He was given a full military funeral.
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