Shark attack, 1940-12-28 (Unprovoked)
Location: Stockton Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Time: 09h00
Activity: Standing on sandbank
Victim: Clarence Hammond (M, age 23)
Injury: FATAL, injuries to lower back 
Fatal: Y
Source: J. Green, p.33; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.235;  G.P. Whitley (1951), p. 192