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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Pillion Rider Injured Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 August 1939 · page 4

Miss Agnes Walters, 20, of Bulli, who was riding pillion, suffered a fractured left leg, and was admitted to Bulli hospital, when a motor cycle…

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Fall of Stone Miner Injured KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 August 1939 · page 7

When buried by a fall of stone and coal while at work to-day Harry Morgan, 45, of Station Hotel, Kurd Kurri, [?] miner, employed at Richmond Main…

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Tram Hits Car Four Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 August 1939 · page 3

Four people were injured when a tram and car collided at the intersection of Yurong-street and William-street, City, last night…

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Ran Into Train Railway Cyclist Injured WOLLONGONG

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 August 1939 · page 3

Thomas P. McInnes, 34, of Thirrou[?] a railway employee, was seriously [?]jured last night, when a railway tricycle he was riding, crashed into…

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Members of I.R.A. Injured Attacked by Convicts. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 August 1939 · page 1

In the course of a Darsmoor par ade, convicts attacked and injured 11 members of the Irish Republican Army who expressed pleasure at the…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 5

Charles Biggers, 61, of Neath, a miner, employed at Neath colliery, received lacerations to the head and lower lip and an injury to the left…

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Crossing Smash Lorry Cut In Two Driver Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 13

Hit by a tram at a level crossing near Toronto railway station a motor-lorry, hauling 10 tons of logs on a jinker, was cut in halves…

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GLOUCESTER Leg Badly Crushed Bush Accident Gloucester

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 15

Mr. Arch Chubb, Junr., of Copeland, had his left leg badly crushed when he got it jammed between a winch and a log at…

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Former Muswellbrook Boys Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 7

While motor cycling from Rydalmere to Sydney, Brian Munro and his brother, Eric, collided with a motor car. The former sustained a fractured leg, while…

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Tourist Injured Katoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 2

Mr. Rosemond Thornton, 19, of Carrington Avenue, Hurstville, fell to the road from the footboard of a car on which he was riding. He was treated…

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Fall From Bicycle Boy Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 2

When he fell from his bicycle at his home on Wednesday, John Smith, aged 13, of the Bendolba post office, was thrown on to a barbed wire fence…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 7

Harry Morgan, 45, miner, received a cut on his head, abrasions to his left leg and right shoulder, and an injury and…

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Leg Crushed by Log Accident at Waukivory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 1

Archie Chubb, junr., of Copeland, had his left leg badly crushed on Monday morning when he got it jammed between a winch and a log…

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Constable Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1939 · page 11

Plain-clothes Constable Charles Fulton, 24, of Parramatta, who lives in Brien's Road, Northmead, was seriously injured when his motor cycle and a…

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Woman Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1939 · page 2

Mrs. Ellen Smith, 69, of Adamstown, sustained a probable fracture of the skull, contusions to the back of the head, general abrasions, and…

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Relief Worker Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1939 · page 5

James Lamson, 65, a relief worker, of Newcastle Junction, was injured this morning when the shaft of a water waggon he was lifting out of…

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Cow Injured Malicious Wounding Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1939 · page 5

At the Cessnock Police Court to-day, William George Plumb charged Matthew Hopkins with maliciously wounding a cow…

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Cyclist Killed Collision With Motor Car NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1939 · page 3

Kenneth Tiplady, 25, of Eavescourt-road. New Lambton, was killed last night when the bicycle he was riding and a motor car collided in…

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Train Smash Fireman Killed Passengers Injured BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1939 · page 3

When a livestock train collided with a stationary passenger train at Eudlo railway station on Saturday night, Daniel Devlin, 45, a fireman, of…

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Two Injured Motor Cycle and Car Collide SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1939 · page 3

When a motor cycle and a car collided at Coogee on Sunday afternoon, Kwong Wing, 18, of Church-street, Parramatta, had his cheek bone…

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