Killed in Aircraft Accident
Five members of the R.A.A.F. were killed in an aircraft accident in Western Australia. The victims included Sgt. Colin George…
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Double Accident
While using a reaping hook to cut the tall grass, the groom at the Bank Hotel cut his hand, which bled freely. Whilst washing the hand in the…
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Maxwell Russcil 17, of Raymond-street Homeville, received concussion and contusions to the back of the head when be fell…
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"There have been four fatal accidents and four serious ones at this colliery in the last twelve months. The mine…
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CESSNOCK Friday.— Herbert Davies, 31, of Congewai-st. Aberdare, a miner employed at Aberdare Central Colliery, was…
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Mrs. Marie Jamieson (32), wife of Mr. Russell Jamieson, chemist, was drowned when trying to rescue her two children, one aged eight and the…
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Flight-Sergeant J, O. Bond, of Nhill (Vic), his neck broken, stumbled a mile and a half across desert to help his…
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KURRI Mon.â George Moore, 41, a machine man if 16 Lang-st., Kurri Kurri had two fingers of his right hand crushed when they…
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NEWCASTLE Tues.— When a motor van struck two trams in Maitland-road, Islington, last night, nine tram passengers were…
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Mrs. Jamieson, 32 ,wife of Mr. Russell Jamieson, chemist, Forster, lost her life on Sunday, when she went to rescue her two children, aged 9 and 4…
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LITHGOW Tues.— Swimming at factory dam, [?] Johns, [?] of Lithgow, was drowned, Other swimming noticed his body on…
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Mrs. Marie Jamieson, 32, wife of Mr Russell Jamieson, chemist, was drowned when trying to rescue her two children, one aged eight and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle. Tuesday, January 19, 1943. Awful Experience of Two Injured Airmen. Crawled Across Desert to Help Comrades
Flight-Sergeant J. O. Bond, of Nhill (Vic.), his neck broken, stumbled a mile and a half across desert to help his comrades. His…
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NEWCASTLE Tues.— When his heel caught in the wheel of a bicycle which he was riding down Darby-street, Cook’s Hill, this…
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Mrs. Marie Jamieson, 32, wife of Mr. Russell Jamieson, chemist of Forster, was drowned on Sunday afternoon when trying to rescue her two children, one aged…
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SYDNEY Thurs.—Mrs. Dorothy Smith, 38, who was accidentally shot by her son, aged eight, at her home in Louis st., Redfern,…
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CESSNOCK Friday. — William Whyte, 30, of Congewai-st., Aberdare, a wheeler, received injuries to his back and also suffered from…
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Surrounded by American Marines shortly after the opening of the Guadalcanal assault, 200 Japanese soldiers walked into the sea and drowned themselves in preference to surrendering. This was related by Colonel Leroy Hunt, who led the victorious Marine…
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Surrounded by American marines shortly after the opening of the Guadalcanal assault, 200 Japanese soldiers…
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