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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Two Inquests : Accidental Death and Open Finding

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 May 1945 · page 1

Scattered along the Crookwell railway line for a distance of nearly 90 yards, the mutilated. remains of Thomas Joseph McDevitt were found on the afternoon of May 12, about half a mile from the Goulburn Railway station…

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Collision

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 5

At about 3 p.m. to-day (Wednesday) a collision between a car and a motor lorry occurred at the intersection of…

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Two Trainees Killed In Plane Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two trainee pilots were killed when aircraft collided in mid-air near an R.A.A.F. training establishment in southern N.S.W…

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Albury Mail in Trouble Eight Cars Derailed Early This Morning at Carrick Fortunately No One Was Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 3

Thought to be due to a broken rail, eight cars of the Albury Mail on its way to Sydney, were derailed on the main line between Towrang and Carrick at about 2.30 this morning…

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Train Accident Local Resident’s Experience in Overturned Carriage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 June 1945 · page 2

Mrs. W. J. Gorman was a traveller on the Albury Mail, when eight carriages were detailed about six miles from…

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Stan Sismey Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 June 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: The Australian wicket-keeper, S. Sismey, was injured during the first innings yesterday of the Lancashire v. R.A.A.F…

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Railway Accidents Tahmoor and Mt. Murray

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 June 1945 · page 3

Accidents on the railway line have resulted in the death of two men during the past week. ''The first occurred near Tahmoor,…

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Inquest Into Car Tragedy Coroner Finds Fatality Was Accidental

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 June 1945 · page 2

Following the submission of evidence at the inquest concerning the death of Pte. Frederick Wilson, held on Saturday at the Goulburn Cout House, the Deputy Corner, Mr. P. Jackson, found that he died from injuries…

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Shot in Jaw Gunning Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 June 1945 · page 1

Mr. Colin Alchin, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Alchin, of Chain of Ponds, Gunning, was the victim of a shooting accident at the…

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Floods Take Toll of Life Mother and Four Children Among Those Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: After their home on the Richmond River near Casino was flooded yesterday, following torrential rains which swept the far North Coast over the week-end, a mother and her four children were…

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Fred Wilson's Death Fatality Was Accidental, Coroner Finds

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 June 1945 · page 5

The Goulburn District Deputy Coroner, Mr. P. Jackson, J.P., after hearing evidence at a coronial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Pte. Frederick Wilson, which occurred at Goulburn…

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22 Injured in Train Derailment Riverina Express Off the Rails Near Tahmoor

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Twenty-two passengers, including the driver and fireman, were injured when the Riverina Express was derailed two miles from Tahmoor, near Picton, last night…

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Shot in Jaw Painful Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 3

Mr. Colin Alchin, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Alchin, of Chain of Ponds, Gunning, was the victim of a shooting accident at the…

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Sad Accident Repatriated P.O.W. Seriously Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 19 June 1945 · page 2

Private Thomas Johnson, a repatriated prisoner of war, of Canterbury, Victoria, Iies seriously injured in the Disitrict…

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Three Drowned in Taxi

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY: An upturned taxicab containing the bodies of a man and two women was found yesterday morning submerged in…

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Over Embankment Caves Resident is Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1945 · page 3

Mr. Ted Hughes, an old resident of the Wombeyan Caves district, was driving home in his utility truck on Wednesday evening, when…

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Man Injured When Car Dives Off Roadway

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1945 · page 2

On Wednesday, Mr. E. M. Hughes of Tallaweena, was returning front Mittagong and, when about two miles from home, the…

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Man Over Falls Holiday Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 June 1945 · page 5

When Allen Sugden, a youth of 18 years of age, of Thirroul, slipped and fell over a precipitous…

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Child's Death Tallong Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 1

Leaving the house of Mrs. Nobes at Tallong, where she was spending a holiday with her parents from Bondi…

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Soldier Accidentally Shot Dead

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 1

SINGLETON: A Victorian soldier was shot dead by a Bren-gun during exercises "under fir" on June 5. witnesses said at an inquest…

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