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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

405 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 21

Manildra Magazine Painful Accident

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1942 · page 8

Mr. Len. Sharpless sustained painful injuries to his hand which was caught in the cogs of a machine whilst working on his property…

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Man Injured

National Advocate · Monday 6 April 1942 · page 2

Mr. Herb Kelly (28), of Black Springs Road, Mt. David, received injuries to the neck, back and chest. when the limb of the tree of which…

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Youth Drowned Melbourne

National Advocate · Monday 6 April 1942 · page 3

Harry Tassell (18) was found in a sailing dinghy which was washed up in the bay yesterday. The body had been tied to the mast which was…

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Wrestling Demetral Injured Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 6 April 1942 · page 1

Florred in the seventh round by a drepkick barrage. Leo Demetral was unable to continue his wrestling match with George Pencheff at the…

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Stuart Town Fatality Recalled After 34 Years DUBBO

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1942 · page 1

(Sergeant J. Syk[?]s. or Dubbo, is very much Interested in a report from Stuart Town, between Wellington and Orange, that a memorial erected…

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Road Accidents During Holiday Period

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1942 · page 2

Several road accidents necessitating the attention of the ambulance, occurred over the holiday period. On Thursday, Mr. R. Williams, of…

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Factory Worker Injured

National Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1942 · page 2

Mr. C. Dean, of 62 Havannah-strcet, Bathurst. received a fractured lower right leg when he collided with a car driven by Leo Mulcahy at the…

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Sand Chute Fatality Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1942 · page 2

When three men were trapped in a fall of sand at Brooklyn yesterday, Horace Charles Ogden, 44, of Bellevue-street, Thornleigh, was…

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Taxi Crash Soldier Killed— Another Injured ADELAIDE

National Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 5

In a taxi accident near a city bridge last night Robert Anglesey (37) of the A[?]F was killed and Gunner R. G. Williams Injured. The two men…

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Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 7

Whilst mustering sheep on Monday of last week Mr. T. Carmody's horse bogged and plunged unseating him. He fell on a log. He has…

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Dubbo Accidents All Time Record Dubbo

National Advocate · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

March was the heavies month for accidents that the D[?] District Ambulance has had to attend to for a lona [?] At the April…

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Mishaps and Accidents

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

The following accident cases have been "dealt with" by Lithgow ambulance:-- A boy named William Dellabosca…

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Chinese Killed Bathurst's First Brown Out Fatality Verdict of Accidental Death

National Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 1

At the inquest hold yesterday afternoon into the death of Ahpong an aged Chinese (previously believed to be Mock Pong) the…

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General News Mrs. S. Williams Injured

National Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 2

Mrs. S. Williams, widow of the have Mr. Sam Williams, of Alloway Bank Bathurst and mother of Mr. Lis Williams sustained a fractured thigh…

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Car and Sulky Crash Two Men Injured Near Dubbo Dubbo

National Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 6

Whil travelling on the Dubbo romine road in sulky an known man was injured when a motor which collided with him and threw…

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Dubbo Accident Dubbo

National Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 6

The too of Mr. J Emery'a thumb, was cut off by a falling pipe at Barbigal station, near Dobbo, when the wire hawser of windless be was…

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Surfer Drowned Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 3

Believed to have suddenly developed cramp, Norman Weygand (42), of Sydney, was drowned at Ocean Beach, Woy Woy this afternoon…

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Fatally Injured £100 Married Bonus Little Sweetheart of Old Mens Home Sydney, Saturday. Not Favored by State Government Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 1

Elizabeth Bennett, aged 13, the "little sweetheart" of inmates of Lidcombe State Home, died in Auburn District Hospital today. The State Government is not likely to adopt the suggestion of £100 to newly married couples until at least the end of the war This was…

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Tragic Death Man Found Shot at Eurunderee Theory of Accidental Death

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 5

TRAGIC circumstances surround the death at Snake's Creek, near the Home Rule Road, of Harry Sills 132, who…

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PRIVATE SANDRy Accidentally Killed Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1942 · page 2

A casualty list issued today included the following: ABROAD Previously reported died of wounds,…

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