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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Young Man Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 December 1941 · page 2

While operating a wheat kicker at Blighty on Sunday, Mr. Alfred Treasure had the misfortune to receive a nasty knock on the head necessitating the…

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Road Accidents are Sabotage

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1941 · page 4

Road accidents to-day are destructive of national fitness and therefore cannot be tolerated. An avoidable road accident is virtually…

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Enemy Causes Road Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 December 1941 · page 4

The Christmas appeal to the people of England about road accidents is to remember that though there have been fewer cars on the roads there…

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Italian Railway Accident: 25 Killed Rome, December 22

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 December 1941 · page 2

Twenty-five persons were killed and several hundred injured in a railway accident at a station five miles to the east of Naples- All traffic has been…

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Painful Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 December 1941 · page 1

Mr. J.M. Innes met . with a painful accident when fishing on Sunday. He fell off a log and broke one of. his fingers. After receiving medical attention…

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Two Men Drowned Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 December 1941 · page 2

Caught in a strong undertow at Dee Why this, afternoon, two men were drowned. They were: Edgar Walter Carter, of Petersham, and Richard…

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Sixty Year Old Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 December 1941 · page 2

Archibald J. Marsden, aged [?] of South street, Wodonga, was admitted to the Albury Hospital yesterday with lacerations to the face in which several…

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Buddy Baer Injured Long Beach (N.j.), Dec. 25

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1941 · page 3

Buddy Baer who is to meet Joe Louis in a ma[?] for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship next month, suffered scratches to the face and bruises to the body in a…

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Injured in Car Illegally Takes?

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 December 1941 · page 2

A motor car taken from Wagga on Saturday afternoon was later found extensively damaged some three miles from the town on the lake Albert r[?]…

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Two Airmen Killed a Mid-air Collision SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 December 1941 · page 3

When two R.A.A.F. training plane's collided at 3000ft., near Junee yesterday, two airmen were killed, but two others parachuted to safety…

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50 Killed in Railway Accident in France. Vichy. December 30

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 December 1941 · page 1

Fifty persons are reported lo have been killed and many injured in a railway accident which occurred near Hazebrough…

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