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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

1,195 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 60

Motor Collision Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 8

A motor car, driven by Mr, E. Headly, or Abbey Green, and a motor cycle, ridden by Leslie Charles Cox, collided at the comer of John…

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Car Overturns Six Singleton Men Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 4

Six men were injured in the early hours of Sunday meeting when the ear in which they were travelling overturned as the driew attempted to…

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Singleton Men Injured When Car Overturns

Singleton Argus · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 2

Six occupants of a touring car were injured when it overturned on the New England Highway on the Maitland, side of Lochinvar early…

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Injured in Car Smash Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 1

Struck by flying glass from the windscreen of car which [?] with another at Neath Hill to-day, Mrs. A. Camphell. 33 of North Avenue…

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Freighter Sinks Off Sydney After Collision No Loss of Life

Singleton Argus · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 1

The interstate freighter Cardross (1896 tons) sank at 7 a.m. yesterday after having collided with the Sydney freighter Fiona…

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Fall on Stone Miner Seriously Injured NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 5

Caught In a toll of atone at Central Lambton Colliery to-day, William kerf, 40 a miner staying at the General Roberts Hotel, New Lambton,…

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Miner Fatally Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 December 1940 · page 1

A miner was fatally injured by a fall of stone in Central Lambton colliery yesterday…

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Drowning at Clarence Town Girl's Heroic Effort at Rescue

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1940 · page 2

Despite heroic efforts to rescue him by a girl companion and another man, Jack Dempsey, aged 26, a sign writer, of 87 Northumberland-street,…

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Brothers Drowned in Lake Parramatta One Went to Other's Aid

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 December 1940 · page 2

An attempt by a schoolboy to save his brother from drowning in Lake Parramatta had a tragic end on Monday afternoon. Both were drowned…

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Leg Severed Man Found Near Train Line Badly Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1940 · page 1

Giving his name as Billy Smith and his address as “The World,” a men war brought to West Maitland railway station last…

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Sawmill Accident NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1940 · page 1

Edwin Bramble (47), sawmill menager, of Bulabdelah, died in links Hospital, Newcastle, on November 29, from internal injuries…

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Fell at Work Mineworker Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 December 1940 · page 6

Matthew Watson, 28, of Cessnock Road, North Rothbury, was injured when he fell while working at Maitland Extended No. 1 colliery…

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Victim of Flying Accident Cootamundra

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 December 1940 · page 6

A cable has been received announcing the death in flying accident in England of Sergeant Pilot Kenneth Matter [?], 23, eldest, son of Mr…

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Injured in Motor Accident Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 6

When his bicycle collided with a has river who was crossing the road near the Hamilton Depot, Jack Drew, 17, of Hamilton, sudd[?] a islocated…

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Leg Severed in Car Collision

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 5

With his right leg sever ed below the knee in a collision with a motor car near Port Curtis Junction (Q.), Gerald Francis Davis, 22, insurance…

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Drowning at Clarence Town Girl's Bravery Tributed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 4

It transpires that the young man, John Sidney Dempaey, who was drowned in the Williams River at Clarence Town on Sunday afternoon…

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Drowned in Baths Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 5

The body of James Henry Hubert Owen, 21, of was discovered yesterday in 12 feet o£ water in the Enfield Olympic Swimming pool…

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