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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Spiked by Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 September 1919 · page 4

An extraordinary fatality overtook a Madrasse private of the 61st Pioneers recently in the guard room of the 75th Carnatis Infantry in Cubbon Road…

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Railway Crossing Smash. Goods Train and Motor in Collision

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 September 1919 · page 6

A railway crossing at Cameron's Hill, (Vic.) a mile from Colac was the scene of a serious accident on Tuesday. A goods train from Geelong, travelling at about 30 miles…

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Disorder in Fremantle. Police Officers Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 September 1919 · page 1

The Fremantle (W.A.) police have had to contend with hostile feeling on the part of a portion of the public for some months past. Since the riot Of…

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Claim for £2000. Accident While Trucking Horses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 September 1919 · page 7

An action was begun in Sydney, before Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury, in which Francis Bruce Mitchell seeks to recover from the New South Wales Railway…

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To-day's Telegrams. Motor Fatality. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 5

An inquest was held on the body of Henry Edwards, who was run down and fatally injured by a motor car in Oxford-street a fortnight ago. The coroner in…

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Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 4

Mr. William Kessell, a commercial traveller employed by R. Hall and Sons, Limited, of Newcastle, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri Hospital yesterday afternoon…

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Returned Soldier Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 September 1919 · page 5

While walking along the Watson's Bay ferry wharf with a friend last night, Edmond Ratcliffe, 32, a returned soldier, fell over the edge into about seven feet of water…

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Collision Beats Reeder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 September 1919 · page 7

At the Sydney Hippodrome on Friday night, before a large crowd, Fred Collison, 19.6 knocked out Tom Reedor, 10.6 1/2 in the second round of a contest scheduled to…

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Sailing Boat Capsize. Returned Soldier Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 September 1919 · page 6

The capsizing of a selling boat was the cause of a returned soldier, Robert Ridland, 30 years of age, living at Ascot-street, Kensington, being drowned at Double Bay…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Boy and Pea Rifle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 September 1919 · page 2

A fatal shooting accident occurred at Kempsey on Friday afternoon. A lad named Albert Baker, 14, of Commandant Hill, and his cousin, Joseph Barber, a married man…

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The Motor Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 September 1919 · page 4

Mr. W. Kessell, traveller for R. Hall and Son, Newcastle, who met with a serious motor-car accident on the road leading from Maitland to Kurri Kurri on Thursday afternoon last, is now…

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A Fatality Recalled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 September 1919 · page 4

The passing of the late Sergeant Buxton, of Taralga, in the Goulburn district, recalls a shocking fatality which occurred many years ago on the railway line between Hexham and…

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Kirribilli Point Collision. Marine Court Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 September 1919 · page 3

The collision between the steamer Burringbar and the horse ferry Killara, off Kirribill Point on August 15 last, was the subject of an inquiry by the Marine Court…

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Returned Soldiers Drowned Gallant Attempts at Rescue Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1919 · page 3

As the result of a sailing bo[?]t capsizing in Double Bay yesterday afternoon Robert Ridland, a returned soldier, was drowned…

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Returned Soldier Injured. 100 Stitches

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 October 1919 · page 4

Severe injuries were received by a returned soldier named Harley Cale, son of Mr Jas. Cale, of Rydal, as the result of a collision between a motor cycle, which he…

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Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 October 1919 · page 2

A boy named Bertie Sears, son of Mr. Sears, grocer, of Main street, had a narrow escape from fatal injury last Wednesday…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Lieut Cherry Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 6

Lient. L. G. Cherry, who left Adelalde for Melbourne carly on Friday morning on a motor cycle with a side-car, for the purpose of establishing an overland record, met…

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Kirribilli Point Collision. Marine Court Inquiry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 7

The collision between the steamer Burringbar and the horse ferry Killara, off Kirribill Point on August 15 last, was the subject of an inquiry by the Marino Court…

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Sailing Boat Capsize. Returned Soldier Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 16

The capsizing of a sailing boat was the cause of a returned soldier, Robert Ridland, 30 years of age. living at Ascot-street, Kensington, being drowned at Double Bay…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Boy and Pea Rifle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 7

A fatal shooting accident occurred at Kempsey on Friday afternoon. A lad named Albert Baker, 14, of Commandant Hill, and his cousin, Joseph Barber, a married man…

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