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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Some Peculiar Accidents Tragic And Humorous

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 3

Accidents have been caused in many strange ways and have had strange consequences. Some of these have been humorous or…

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Body in River Taralga Woman Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 2

Less than half an hour after she had left a house in Kenmore Street early this morning, Mrs. Amelia May Aiders, 58, married,…

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"ACCIDENTAL" Bungonia Man's Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Deputy-Coroner, "Mr. J. C. Walsh, after inquiring at the Goulburn Court…

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Train Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): in a train collision at Slough between the Plymouth express and a goods train fived persons were killed…

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Collision at Temora

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 1

When a car and lorry collided at Temora the other night the car swerved across the street, knocked down two verandah posts at…

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Fatality at Cunningar Mr Thomas O'connor Killed Instantly

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 4

When returning with a load of wood on Saturday night last and within 50 yards of his gate, Mr. Thomas O'Connor, of Cunningar,…

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Wool Trade War Fund Branch Formed at Gundagai Convalescent Homes For Injured Soldiers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 3

A branch of the Wool Trade War Fund has been formed at Gundagai. The graziers of the Gundagai district have decided to…

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Demondrille Railway Accident Goods Train Crashes Through Dead-end £5,000 Damage Estimated

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 4

On, Friday last, a goods train of about ten trucks, crashed through a dead-end at Demondrille railway junction and continued for about…

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The Inquest Verdict of Accidental Death Recorded

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 4

At the Murrumburrah Court House on Monday morning, the District Coroner (Mr W. H. Powell) held an Inquest surrounding the death of…

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Horse Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Day Star was injured in a schooling lesson at Randwick this morning. The rider, A. R. Eills, escaped without injury, but…

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Taxi Driver Charged Tragic Accident Recalled

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 July 1941 · page 5

A tragie accident in Cowper Street On March. 30 last, when a soldier and a girl companion were killed and two others injured,…

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Strange Accident Child's Leg Broken

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 2

Three-year-old Daphne Carthew sustained serious injuries as the result of an unusual accident at the residence her parents Mr. and…

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Shoulder Injured Trucking Accident at Railway Yards

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 July 1941 · page 2

Mr. Percy Bourke of Crook well, employed by Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. as trucking clerk at the Crookwell railway trucking yards,…

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American Nurses Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): The American Red Cross announced to-day that a British vessel, in which ten Red Cross nurses…

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Gave Germany Her Dive-bombers Air Ace's Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 3

The Nazis most valuable weapon, apart from surprise and Fifth Column methods, is the Junkers dive-bomber--yet it was…

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Mother and Daughter Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1941 · page 6

The bodies of Mrs. Mary Yolande Lovett, 37, and her daughter, aged 7, of Forbes, were recovered from the Lachlan River, near Forbes. by…

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Soldier Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 July 1941 · page 3

Supper Frederick Albert Cannell, 23, of Mount Druill, was drowned in the sea at the foot of Rosa Dully, Vancluse, yesterday, and his body…

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Car Overturns But No One Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1941 · page 3

Three people had an amazing escape from injury yesterday afternoon when their car capsized near Governor's Hill after it had skidded off the…

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PTE. W. WEBSTER Reported Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 July 1941 · page 1

Ple. W. T. B. Webster, of Captain's Flat, previously reported wounded in action and now reported as injured, is the only district man mentioned in…

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Two Injured Fingers In Machinery

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 2

When their hands were caught in different types of machinery while at work this morning, two Goulburn men suffered injured…

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