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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Three Trams in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Three city bound trams were Involved in a sensational smash at Woollahra today, and the passengers had…

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7000 Nazis Drowned When Big Ship Torpedoed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Over 7000 persons are reported drowned as a result of the sinking of the German 25,000…

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Pte. Thomas K. SHIEL Believed Drowned in Action

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 2

As stated in our last issue, Pte. Thomas Kennedy Shiel, previously reported missing believed drowned accidentally, is now reported…

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Woman Injured Unusual Features

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 February 1945 · page 1

At 9.15 last night Mrs. R. Hall, of 64 Clinton Street, was found lying below a high balcony which fronted the upstairs room to…

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Mr. Tom Grooms Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 February 1945 · page 3

Mr. Tom Grooms, of Coromandel Street, who is employed on the elerical staff at the Town Hall, is in the District Hospital…

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Neither Injured Motor Car Overturns

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 February 1945 · page 5

While travelling along the Robertson Road late on Thursday afternoon en route to Wollongong, where they reside, two men…

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MR. C. SHEEKEY Injured at Factory

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 February 1945 · page 2

Mr. C. P. Sheekey, of Sheekey's ice and cordial factory, was badly hurt this morning. It appears he was standing on…

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Man Killed Six Injured When Car Hits Pole

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 February 1945 · page 3

Just after dusk last night, at Braidwood, a V8 Ford touring car, conveying seven young men from Captain's…

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Motor Accident Truck and Car Verdic for Plaintiff

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 February 1945 · page 1

In a case arising out of the collision of a utility truck and a motor car on the Binalong-Harden Road, the plaintiff…

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Second Death From Braidwood Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 2

Seriously injured in the motor accident at Braidwood on Wednesday last, when a car containing seven young men collided with…

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43 Injured in Train Near Windsor Seven Admitted to Hospital

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY: Eighteen civilians and 25 R.A.A.F. personnel were injured when a Sydney-bound train smashed head-on into a stationary Air Force train, carrying 700 members of the Air. Force, at Clarendon Station, between Richmond…

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Train Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 3

ZORRA, Ontario, Monday: Eighty persons were injured when nine cars on a Canadian Pacific railway train from…

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Six Persons Drowned ?

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE: Six persons are believed to have been drowned when they were trapped in the guard's van of a train on…

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Drowned in Kerosene Tin

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

A pathetic accident occurred at Marrar, when 10 months old Eileen Olive Schiller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Schiller, was drowned in…

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Chapter of Accidents Boy Collides With Gas Producer

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

Robert Chuck, aged -8, son of Mr. Leslie George Chuck, of Cooma Street, was injured on Saturday afternoon about 5 p.m., whilst…

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Fall From Ladder Mr. Gustafson Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 2

Falling from a ladder when it slipped in the A.M.P. building yesterday afternoon, Mr. G. E. Gustarson, jeweller, received…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 3

Two men are in the District Hospital as a result of accidents which occurred yesterday. N. Hadlow (21), of…

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Succession of Accidents Ends in Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 2

At an inquest held on Saturday into the circumstances which led to the death of Arthur Ernest George Lansdowne, 45, grazier, of Shaw s Creek, the Deputy Coroner, Mr. P. Jackson, found that he died on March 3 from the…

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Nine Hurt in Tram Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY: Nine persons were injured in a collision between two trams on Broadway yesterday and one of them, Miss Bertha…

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Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 2

When unloading steel girders at the railway yards yesterday, Bernard Skelly, employed by the Farmers and Graziers' Company,…

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