Shark attack, 1949-01-23 (Unprovoked)
Location: Bar Beach, Newcastle , New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Time: 15h00
Activity: Lifesaving exhibition
Victim: Ray Land (M, age 20)
Injury: FATAL
Fatal: Y
Species: White shark, 3.6 m [11'9"] 
Source: G.P. Whitley (1951); V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp. 77 & 78; A. Sharpe, pp.84-85