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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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1,000,000 Tons of Bombs More U.S. Planes Lost by Accident Than in Action

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: American Air Forces have dropped 1,000,000 tons of bombs on enemies since the-Pearl Harbour attack of which almost half was. dropped inside D Day. This was revealed to-day by…

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Road Accidents

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1944 · page 1

Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of (New South Wales for the year ended June 30th last, totalled 1150, causing the death of…

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Baby Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 October 1944 · page 1

Carrying her 11-months-old child, Mrs. Melva Bowditch, 25 walked into the heavy surf at Belmont, Newcastle, on Sunday…

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From Everywhere Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 October 1944 · page 2

When his bicycle colleded with a car on the Braidwood Road on Friday afternoon, Herbert Warburlon received injuries…

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Two Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 October 1944 · page 1

PERTH: Of 12 people thrown into shallow water near the sandbar at Walpole Inlet when a 27ft. motor launch was overturned by…

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Cyclist Injured Fall While Training

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 October 1944 · page 3

Falling heavily from his bicycle at the Sportsground yesterday. Cecil Nelson, 17 years, suffered extensive injuries…

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Child's Foot Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 October 1944 · page 1

The list of cycle accidents in recent week-was added to on Saturday morning when Peggy (Berwick 8 years, of 133 Addison…

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Car Accident Near Coolac

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 19 October 1944 · page 1

At about 8 o'clock on Sunday' night a Chevrolet utility containing a party, of shearers who. were returning to Kiora Station, Bookham,…

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Injured in Shed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 October 1944 · page 3

Mr. Noel Marzol, of Yass, was taken to the District Hospital by ambulance .on Tuesday, suffering from head injuries and the loss of…

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Goulburn Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE: 12 R.A.A.F. sergeal were injured and an other killed when a hand grenade expoded during throwing…

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Motor Car Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 2 November 1944 · page 4

A party of four from Harden had a miraculous escape from death yesterday afternoon, when a car in which they were…

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Level Crossing Accident Father and Son Are Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 November 1944 · page 6

Thomas Whillans, of Narrandera, and his son, Ronald, had a miraculous escape from death when the mail train from Sydney…

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Cycle Accident Man Killed at Katoomba

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 November 1944 · page 3

KATOOMBA: James Campbell, 42, married, was killed, and Frank Rooney, 30, injured, when the bicycle on which they were…

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Gunning Resident's Claim for Compensation After Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 November 1944 · page 5

Of interest to Gunning residents, a compensation case was conmmenced before His Honour Judge Moffitt at the Goulburn Court House on Tuesday, and then adjourned to Sydney…

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Cyclists’ Pranks Cause Accidents

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 November 1944 · page 6

When it was reported the other day that a schoolboy rode his bi-cycle along a track on the edge of a 300ft. cliff in Sydney and fell to…

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Fell From Pole Railway Employee Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 1

Mr. C a court of 52 Braidwood Road a Baesman employed by the N.S.W.G.R. Signals Branch slipped and fell 20 feet to the…

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Unusual Accident Shunter Kicked On Arm

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 December 1944 · page 1

Mr. A. W. Cotter of 224 Bourke Street suffered abrasions and contusions to the right arm yesterday afternoon in an…

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Cyclist Injured Collided With Truck

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 December 1944 · page 2

Thrown from her bicycle when she was involved in a collision with a truck at the corner of Clinton and…

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Boy Injured by Shanghai; Awarded £305 Damages

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 December 1944 · page 2

A 13-year-old boy, who had last 80 per cent of the sight of one eye through being hit by a pellet from a shanghai, was awarded £805…

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Country Road Accident Figures Inure (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 December 1944 · page 4

Road accidents in country to and rural areas of the State [?] a substantial increase for three months ended September…

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