Richard Joseph Maguire age 13 was killed by a shark on April 17th, 1949. He was bathing in .9 m deep water at Ellis Beach when a 10’9’’ shark attacked and severed his left leg, killing him.

G.P. Whitley (1951), p.194; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.239; A. Sharpe, pp.38 & 9