Shark attack, 1942-09-12 (Unprovoked)
Location: Trinity Beach, 17 km northwast of Cairns, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Time: 16h30
Activity: Treading water
Victim: Athol Wearne, Royal Australian Air Force. officer (M, age 24)
Injury: Right foot severed & calf removed, leg  surgically amputated below the knee
Fatal: N
Species: Tiger shark, 2.4 m to 3 m [8' to 10'] 
Source: A Wearne, J. Green, pp.44-50; G.P. Whitley (1951), p. 193, cites Sydney Morning Herald, 8/11/1943;  V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.87 & 238