Trooper
Henry John Arthur HARRIS
YEAR OF DEATH
1915
JURISDICTION
Tasmania
DETAILS OF DEATH
On 9 January 1915 Trooper Harris together with Constable John Watson was outside the Imperial Hotel Cygnet coping with a large group of drunken young men. When Trooper Harris attempted to arrest a particularly troublesome young man who resisted and the constable was knocked to the footpath. He was then struck on the head with a full beer bottle while lying unconscious on the pavement. Constable Watson and a local man managed to carry Harris through the crowd and place him on a dray. Henry Harris died of his injuries the following day.
