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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

141 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 8

F/SERGT. K. MURRAY Injured In Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 November 1943 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Murray, of 100 Bourke Street, have been notified that their son, Flight-Sergt, Kon Murray has met with an alreraft…

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Jockey Injured: Horse Killed

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 November 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: N. McCrowdi[?] who won the Epsom handicap on Klaree, suffered severn injurles While riding Fort Street at Randwi[?]…

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Leonard Smythe Killed in Air Accident in Canada

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 November 1943 · page 1

L.A.C. Leonard Frederick Smythe, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Smythe, of Strathfield (formerly of Yass), and brother of…

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Three Men Injured In Lorry Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 November 1943 · page 3

Shortly after six o'clock last night a Red Cross lorry attached to the 114th A.G.H. was proceeding from Goulburn to the 114th A.G.H., and…

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DISMISSED Case Arises From Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 November 1943 · page 1

"IT is clear, on the evidence, that if both vehicles had continued their course the utility would have passed behind the tax: and thus no collision could have occurred…

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From Everywhere Finger Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 November 1943 · page 2

Kevin Stewart, miner at Captain's Flat, working on the eights level at the mine, was examining a fan when the fourth finger of the left hand…

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Bicycle Accident Three Children Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 November 1943 · page 2

Three schoolchildren were injured in a bicycle accident on Tuesday afternoon, one being admitted to the hospital…

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200 Japs. Drowned Enemy Cruiser Hit

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 November 1943 · page 1

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Monday: Five Japanese aircraft were destroyed in the air, and 30 more were bombed onthe ground, at Wewak…

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Child Drowned in Air-raid Trench

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 November 1943 · page 2

A 15-monthsold baby, Lesley Yvonne Jones, was drowned in an air-raid trench under a house in Specer Street, Five Dock Sydney…

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Mine Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 2

Caught by a fall of stone while working in Bloomfield South colliery (Maitland.) J. Thompson, of West Maitland received injuries from which he died…

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Accidental Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 December 1943 · page 2

Accidental death was the verdict delivered by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. J. C. Walsh, 'at the conclusion of an inquiry held on saturday at the…

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13 Boys Drowned Clarence River Tragedy

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 December 1943 · page 1

GRAFTON, Sunday: Thirteen well cubs, the oldest of whom was to were drowned when they fell from a 12-foot punt in which 28 cubs, and…

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100 KILLED In U.S. Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 3

LUMBERTON, North Carolina, Thursday: It is estimated that upwards of a hundred persons were killed, and scores of others…

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Father Sees Child Fatally Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 1

Sitting in a parked car 30 yards away, a father saw his child receive fatal injuries when the youngster ran under the rear of a motor lorry which…

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Soldier Killed Railway Accident Frightful Injuries

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 2

The mutilated dead body of a soldier was discovered, on the Southern railway line this morning, at the Gap Cutting,…

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Drowning at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 1

On Wednesday, Charles Arabia Mayne, 46, a veteran of the 1914-18 war, and who has only recently been discharged from the Army during…

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Two Men Injured in Goulburn Fracas

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 1

Resulting from a fracas which occurred at the Southern Railway Hotel yesterday afternoon, Mr. C. A. O'Brien, licensee of the hotel, and his…

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Junee Ambulance Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 4

When one of the cars of the junee District ...Ambulance crashed into Houlaghan's Creek bridge at Wallace low about 2 o'clock on wednesday…

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Shocking Accident Girl's Legs Cut Off And Man Also Loses A Foot

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Seven persons were injured two seriously wa[?] a quarter-inch steel cable trailing From an R. A. A. F. plane flying low over…

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Accidents in School Holidays

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 1

A special plea is made to motorists to observe care in their driving, especially during the school holidays, when happy carefree children will be…

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