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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

241 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 13

FINED £15 Illegal Use Of Car Young Man in Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 3

For having taken and used a motor car on Tuesday without the consent of the owner, Mr. V. H. Copas, John Lance Baker, 21,…

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250 DROWNED Big Liner Torpedoed Off American Coast. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 5

The 8000-ton Canadian liner. Lady Hawkins, has been torpedoed. Two hundred and fifty passengers are missing…

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Prince Street Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 4

The left rear mudguard was ripped off a utility truck belonging to Mr. A. Ensbey, storekeeper, of Wooli, in Prince street,…

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Man Drowned Found Floating in Pool. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1942 · page 2

A short time after he left a party of friends for a swim at Manly yesterday, William Pye, 50, of Haberfield, was seen floating,…

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Train Smash 11 KILLED, 25 Injured in England. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1942 · page 2

It is officially stated that 11 were killed and 25 injured when an express crashed into the rear of a light engine at Cowlair East…

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Nine Dead Boulder Bomb Outrages Nineteen Injured Shocking Affair in W.A. KALGOORLIE

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 5

Two bombing outrages resulting in nine persons being killed and 19 injured, occurred in Boulder early this morning…

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Vicious Assault Man Seriously Injured Police Search for Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 5

Since the admission to St. Vincent's Hospital last night of William Coleman, 44, hotel cook, of King's Cross, police have been…

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Military Trainee Drowned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 1

While swimming at Fuller's Beach on Lane Cove River today. Leslie Aldous, 18, military trainee, was drowned. The body…

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Tragic Accident Young Man Killed

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 2

The community was shocked on Wednesday morning to learn of a well known young man of the Dorrigo cistrict having lost his life on the…

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Tangier Bomb 25 DEAD, 60 Injured. Tangier

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 3

Twenty-five persons, including six British subjects, one of them a British Consular messenger, are reported to have been killed by an…

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Three Die In Traffic Collision Two Others Injured. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1942 · page 3

A man and two women were killed and two other men injured as a result of a collision between a motor car and omnibus soon…

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Pinned Under Cart Accident at Maclean. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 4

Master Pat Grayson, 14-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Grayson, of Union street, Maclean, suffered a painful accident on…

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Coronial Inquiry Verdict of Accidental Death Sequel to Motor Cycle-lorry Collision

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 2

At the Dorrigo Court House, yesterday, the District Coroner, Mr. E. J., Andrew, J.P , held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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Train Smash 10 KILLED, 42 Injured. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 5

Ten were killed and 42 injured some critically in a troop train faster at Brighton Station near Sheffield. The accident occurred…

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Jetty Accident Aftermath in Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 3

Frederick George Hillery was charged before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at Coffs Police Court this morning with having driven his motor vehicle…

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South Arm Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 2

Mr. M. Davis, a member of the local tick staff, met with a painful accident on Tuesday when engaged droving stock. His horse…

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Air Crash Five R.A.A.F. Men Killed Accident in Riverina. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 4

When a training plane from an air school at Cootamundra crashed 14 miles north-west of Ungarie, late yesterday afternoon, five…

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Shotgun Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1942 · page 2

As Reginald Walter Gorman, 25, of the A.I.F., was getting through a fence at Southgate yesterday morning, a shotgun ne…

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Four Die R.A.A.F. Planes Collide Collision in Mid-air. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 2

Four Victorian R.A.A.F. air crew trainees were killed when two training planes collided at a South Australian service flying…

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Sad Fatality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 2

A particularly sad fatality occurred on the Comboyne last Tuesday. Mrs. Graydon Trotter, when she returned home to Comboyne from Sydney…

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