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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Bonegilla Soldier Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 1

Suffering from head injuries, Malcolm Alexander, aged 35, a. soldier, of Bonegilla camp, was found in a lane off Gertrude st, Fitzroy, to-night. He…

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Lad Drowned at Swimming Pool Double Tragedy Narrowly Averted

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 4

A veil of gloom spread over Deniliquin and district when it became known that under tragic circumstances Michael Daly (13), a…

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Accident in Railway Yard

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 2

While transhipping goods at the Albury railway yards yesterday morning, Mr. C. J. Rhyme, a casual worker, met with [?] accident in which he sustained…

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Two Boys Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 2

Two boys were injured, one seriously. when a bicycle which they were rid[?] collided with a tram at the corner of Bay and St. Kilda Streets, [?]righton, to-day…

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Woman Fatally Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 5

A middle-aged woman was fata[?] injured when struck by a car at the comer of Heidelberg Road and [?]enwick Street, Clifton BUI, shortly after…

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Motor Cyclist Seriously Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 5

Charles Geoffrey Jones ([?]), of Dow Street, Port Melbourne, was seriously injured when his motor cycle crashed on the Hume Highway near Tallarook…

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Shooting Tragedy One Dead; One Critically Injured MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 January 1942 · page 1

A man was shot dead and another critically wounded during an argument at a Frankston home this morning…

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Injured Airman‘s Condition

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 1

A.C.I John "William Clemmitt, who was seriously injured in a motor accident on Thursday night and was subsequently taken to Melbourne by ambulance;…

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Shooting at Frankston Former Wahgunyah School Master Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 3

While in the garden of his home at Park-street, Frankston, on Sunday morning Harold Hughes, 55 years, head teacher at Frankston State…

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Melbourne Accidents Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 1

Struck by a car in Yarraville, Doreen Elizabeth Davis, aged 10, of Wilson St., Yarraville, received fatal injuries, dying shortly after admission to the…

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Boy Drowned in Attempt to Save Brother

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 3

Diving unobserved into the Edward's River at Deniliquin to rescue his 17-year-old brother, Michael Daly, 13, was drowned on…

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Motor Accident at Deniliquin

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

A young man named William Ronald Bennett, aged 17 years, a well-known resident of Deniliquin, died in Deniliquin Hospital on…

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Archbishop’s Death Accident Finding Recorded. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 6

Giving evidence at the resumed injuiry to-day into the death of Frederick Walde-grave Head, aged 67. of Blahop[?]court. [?] Melbourne, late Ang[?]cian Archbishop of…

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Boys' Story-Of Drowning Fatality Swimmers Unaware Lad Was Missing

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

The story of the drowning fatality in the river on December. 27 was told to the Coroner (Mr. M. Wyse) at an inquest field on Wednesday. At the conclusion of the evidence the Coroner said the loss…

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2 Lads Injured by Tree Limb Accident at Mathoura During Windstorm

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

Our Mathoura correspondent writes: What might have been a very serious accident occurred at the swimming pool on Monday afternoon during a…

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Level-Crossing Collision Mailman and Child's Miraculous Escape Horse Killed When Struck by Engine

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

On Tuesday morning, at about 9.45 a.m., Mr. Frank Brady and his granddaughter, Patricia, aged 10 years, had a miraculous escape from…

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Drowning Fatality at Deniliquin

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 10 January 1942 · page 3

A very sad drowning fatality occurred at Deniliquin swimming pool recently, when Michael Daly (13), son of Mrs. and the late Mr. W. Daly, of…

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[?] People Believed Drowned. London. Jan. 10

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 4

Three hundred and sixty p[?]gers [?] reported [?] have been on the [?] steamer [?] which the Vichy Government announces sank in a storm of…

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A Shooting Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2

Kevin Salmonds. of Narrandera road, Wagga, accidentally shot himself through the left foot on Saturday evening while out shooting [?] He…

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Another Drowning Fatality Body Recovered This Afternoon

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1

The Edward River claimed another victim last evening when Orville Foster (32) was drowned in deep water a couple of hundred yards below the District Hospital. Foster, who was a plumber in the…

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