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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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Ambulance Cases Accidents at Week-end

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 April 1944 · page 2

The Grafton District Ambulance treated the following cases over the week-end :- Ian Stewart McGill, 16 years…

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Seelands Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 April 1944 · page 4

Eric, son of Mr. C. Weatherstone, met with an accident whilst working amongst cattle. He kicked his foot against a stump and broke a bone in…

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Servicemen Injured In Crossing Smash

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 April 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wed.--When a motor truck was involved in a collision with an express train at a level crossing at Cooper's Plains…

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Railway Fatality At Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 April 1944 · page 6

WOLLONGONG. Fri.-- Harry Matuschka, of Wollongong railway refreshment room, was fatally injured at Wollongong railway…

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Accident In River St., Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 May 1944 · page 4

A horse being driven by Mrs. R. J. Ellem, of Harwood, slipped on the bitumen just below the Municipal Baths, in River street,…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--When a bottle of lemonade, left in an oven, exploded when a fire was lighted, the door of the oven…

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"Celebration" Caused Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Only prompt action on the part of the driver of a bus containing between 40 and 50 soldiers prevented a truck…

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American Soldier Accidentally Shot By U.S. Patrol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.--A United States naval rating, George Woodey, 23, was accidentally shot by a member of the United States shore patrol who was…

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Three Killed in Collision with Truck

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.--Although the evidence did not justify committing Harold Francis Waldron, a negro truck driver, he had been…

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Child Drowned When Truck Crashes Into the Sea

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--When Neville Lockwood, three years, of Dover Heights, was in a cabin two-ton truck, owned by his father, which…

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Damages Claim Against Commonwealth For Car Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 2

TOOWOOMBA, Wed.--A civil case was decided to-day before Mr. Justice Douglas, in which Maria Matilda Weis claimed £1000…

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Straying Stock Causes Accident At Upper Copmanhurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 2

UPPER COPMANHURST, Wed.--The straying stock menace amost caused a tragedy last night on the Upper…

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Drowning Inquest at Deniliquin

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

DENILIQUIN, Thurs.--At the conclusion of the evidence into the deaths of Mrs. Amelia Laura Winnell and her five children at…

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Airmen Injured In Traffic Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Henry Thomas. 23. R.A.A.F., of Parramatta. fell from a crowded Leichhardt tram last night, near the junction of the…

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Many Injured In Tram Collision

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--When a tram crashed into the rear of another in Anzac Parade, Malabar, last night 18 people, including many…

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Accident at Sawmill Young Man Seriously Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 2

WOOLGOOLGA, Fri.--A young married man named Charles Lee, received severe and painful injuries whilst at work at Mr. F. Morgan's sawmill at…

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Soldier Injured In Coogee Brawl

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Corporal Cecil Thisle (A.I.F.), formerly of Coogee, was seriously injured in a brawl outside the Coogee Bay…

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Ten Injured When Trains Collide

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Ten people were injured late yesterday afternoon when two crowded trains, one steam and the other…

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Fatally Injured by Train

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--When he fell from a platform at Wynyard, in front of an incoming electric train to-day, Sergt. David Percy…

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Road Accidents Show Increase

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--There were 1688 road accidents in New South Wales for the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26 over those…

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