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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Death of Accident Victims

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 7

JUNEE, Thursday. — William Roach, 23, soldier, one of the five passenger in the jeep wrecked on the Junee Allabo road on…

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Killed in Road Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 5

GLOUCESTER: Mr. Ron Gresham, of Stratford, was killed in a road accident near Taree on Monday morning…

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Aberdeen Road Fatality. Coroner's Finding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 3

Mr. R: Clendinning, J.P., District Coroner, held an inquest at Muswellbrook on Wednesday last in connection with the deaths of…

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40 Drowned in Iraq Floods

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 2

TEHERAN June 20.—The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers have overflowed thein banks and flooded more than 1000 acres of…

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Injured Knee in Fall

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 5

Ross Foot. ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Foot, of Nelson’s Plains, suffered a lacerated wound to his left knee to-day,…

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Colliery Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 4

Roy Shears, 34, of Second Street, East Cessnock, a miner at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery, suffered lacerations to the right hand when he was struck…

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Fatal Accident on Old Bar Road Young Stratford Man Killed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 1

Mr. Ronald Gresham, 27, a well-known resident of Stratford, near Gloucester, was fatally injured in a motor accident on the Old Bar Road,…

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Accidents at the Collieries

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Friday. — Roy Shears, 34, of East Cessnock a miner employed at Stanford Main No 2 Colliery suffered severe…

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Miner Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 5

When he was caught between two skips at Richmond Main colliery yesterday afternoon, James Phillips, 30, miner, of Kurri Kurri,…

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Two Women Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

NEWCASTLE: When a utility truck, collided with a car at Toronto, Lucretia Goldring, 64, and Maud Minnie Goldring, 72,…

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Injured in Gar Accident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 June 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday—Two brothers were seriously injured end a third has a lucky escape when a small saloon car overturned in…

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Two Injured in Collision

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.—When a motor-cycle and bicycle collided at Port Waratah yesterday, two people were Injured. They were:…

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Aberdeen Road Fatality Coroner's Finding

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 2

Mr. R. Clendinning, JP, District Coroner, held an inquest at Muswellbrook on Wednesday last in connection with the…

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Injured at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 1

CESSNOCK Wed—John Henry Williams 40, of Crawfordville, fell from a sulky to-day and fractured his right ankle while on his…

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Killed in Lorry Accident

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 3

SINGLETON; Wednesday. — Arthur Taylor, 23, of Narrabri, was killed while driving a motor lorry along the new military…

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Crash Between Car and 'Plane First Known Accident of Its Kind

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 2

Two men were killed at Memphis in the first known collision in the United States between a car and a plane…

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Miner Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 5

James McGarvie, 43, Married, of George-st., Cessnock, a miner at Abermain No. 1 colliery, was struck by a fall of coal…

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Injured by Fall of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — Arthur Kentish, 19. ,of Harriett-st., Wallsend, a miner employed Waratah colliery, had the…

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Young Soldier’s Death at Singleton Officer Remembered Nothing of Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

SINGLETON, Thursday.—An Army officer, whom the Coroner (Mr. Alex Morrison) found had been driving a jeep at the time Cpl. Alan George Beardman was thrown out and fatally injured, gave evidence at the inquest at Singleton that…

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Aberdeen Road Fatality

Maitland Mercury · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 6

MUSWELLBROOK: Mr. R. Clendinning, District Coroner, held an inquest at Muswellbrook in connection with the deaths of…

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