“A fatal accident occurred on the railway line in the vicinity of  the Trentham Camp at a late hour on Thursday night. The last train from Wellington left the Lambton Station at II o'clock, end was drawing into the Trentham Station about midnight, when Private Thomas Wallace, of E Company, '10th Reinforcements, fell off the platform of one of the carriages and was run over, death being instantaneous. The guard felt the tram bumping over some object and signalled to the engine-driver, who put on the brakes and promptly brought the locomotive to a standstill. A search along the line revealed Wallace's body, The deceased, who was 25 years of age and unmarried, belonged to the West Coast, where he had worked as a miner. Before he enlisted he was employed at Arthur's Pass by the Public Works Department. 

THE INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, Coroner, held an inquest touching the death of Private Wallace. One of the military police who gave evidence stated that he was of opinion that Wallace had been standing between the carnages when the train started, knocked him down, and ran over him. The Coroner found that death was accidentally caused, and that no-one was blameworthy.”

[Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2711, 4 March 1916, Page 7]