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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

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Girl Swimmer Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 3

A painful accident happened to Betty Mitchell, daughter of Mr and Mrs. A. Mitchell, of Jerilderie, at the Swimming Carnival on Sunday afternoon…

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Five Firemen Injured, one Fatally, in Road Accidents SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 5

Five firemen were injured in two different road accidents to-day at Lane Cove and Mascot. At Lane Cove four firemen were…

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Soldier Drowned at Puckapunyal Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 6

Finding that Private Charles Harry Dusting, aged 19, had been accidentally drowned in the military swimming pool at Puckapunyal on January…

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Motor Cyclists Injured SYDNEY--Thursday

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 5

When a motor cycle rider Reginald White, aged 22 years, and his passengers, Bessie Jones, aged 14 years, who was riding pillion, were thrown to…

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Trials of the Outback Injured Child Taken 240 Miles to Hospital

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 6

Alter a painful journey of more than 240 miles over rough and flooded Country. Mary Guild, aged 6 years, of Maranboy Station, has been admitted…

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Serious Motor Accident near Denliquin

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 3

Four well-known young people of Deniliquin were injured (one seriously) in a motor accident on the Rangemore road, five and n half miles west of…

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Boy Drowned in Less Than Two Feet of Water Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 January 1940 · page 3

Wallace Ford, a 15-year-old boy of Queanbeyan, was drowned in less than two feet of water in the Cotter swimming pool to-day in view of over [?]…

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Hitler’s Friend Has Injured Brain Australian Doctor Her Attendant London, January 27

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 January 1940 · page 6

An Australian Rhodes scholar. Dr. H. W. B. Cairns, who is a brain specialist, and is Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford, is attending…

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Girl Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

When Anne, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Baillieu, of Torrumbarry Estate, was riding her pony in the vicinity of the swimming pontoon at…

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Two Children Nearly Drowned Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

Bruce Carroll, aged 15, and Corri[?] Santeen, aged 13, narrowly escaped drowning when the 12 feet boat the[?] were sailing on Sydney Harbor…

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Militiaman Killed Collision Near Tallarook Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

Arthur Keeley, of Simpson street! Box Hill, was killed late last night [?] a collision between a motor truck and the motor cycle on which he was…

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Youth Injured Found Unconscious on Road

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

A youth in an unconscious condition was discovered on the Moama-Deniliquin road on Friday evening (states Echuca “Herald”). The discovery was…

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Six People Injured in Wagga Car Smash

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

When a car driven by Arthur Cain, aged 39. a telephone mechanic, was about to pass a bus on the Monaro highway about 30 mils from Wagga…

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Mathoura News From our Correspondent Painful Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 1

Miss Dulcie Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Cook, met with, a painful accident when fishing. She was endeavoring to throw a hand-line into the…

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Horse Killed in Collision With Motor Lorry

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

Colliding with a motor lorry on the Culcairn-Albury road, about two miles from Culcairn yesterday afternoon. a horse ridden by Mr. T. Bullock,…

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Man Drowned at Inverloch MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 5

A dinghy in which a man was making a fishing excursion capsized at Inverloch this morning, with the result [?] he was drowned. His…

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Drowned When Boat Capsized London, January 31

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 2

Sixteen members of the crew of the Giralda. which sank off the Orkney’s on Tuesday, were drowned when their small boat capsized a quarter of…

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Militiaman for Trial Coroner's Committal at Inquest Aftermath of New Year’s Day Accident Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 2

Early on New Year’s Day a military car. driven by Kenneth Harold Lambert. 21 year old militiaman, collided with terrific force with a taxi…

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Open Verdict at Drowning Inquest

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 4

At the inquest at Mulwala yesterday into the death of Edward J. Knight, aged 58, of Corowa, who was found drowned in the lake of the…

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Little Girl Seriously Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 4

Margaret Ness, aged three years, Thompson st, Wagga. was seriously injured yesterday when she fell from the cabin of a motor lorry…

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