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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

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Terrific Train Crash Near Melbourne Passengers Have Narrow Escape Many injured But None Lose Lives MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 3

The Chief Feature of a railway collision which occurred tonight on a high embankment between Footscray and South Kensington was the…

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Serious Train Accident MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 2

An electric train and a goods train collided at South Kensington, Melbourne last night, when some carriages of the passenger train were…

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Three Soldiers Drowned Glen Innes

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 4

Three soldiers, all Queenslanders—L/Cpl Morris Hoare Barlow, single; Pte Ed Woolgar, single; and Pte Vincent Kelly, single —were drowned when crossing a flooded…

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Air Trainee Drowned in River

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 1

L.A.C. HORACE GEORGE WILLIAMS, aged 19 years, an Air Force Trainee, was drowned in the Edward River on December 24…

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J[?]nde[?]a Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 2

Mr August Schmidt, Jindera, was admitted to Albury hospital on Saturday suffering from shock, severe lacerations to the left forearm, and abrasions…

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Truck Collides with Bridge Soldier Killed, Others Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 1

When a truck skidded and collided with a concrete bridge over a channel three miles from Tocumwal on December 30, one soldier was killed…

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Motor Car Hits Tree One Killed, One Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 1

When a motor car struck a tree on the Cemetery road last Tuesday night A.C.I. KEITH STILLWELL WILSON received injuries to the…

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CORPORAL McGRATH Accidentally Killed

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 1

The Town Clerk (Mr. A. J. Chant) received a telegram last week announcing that CORPORAL ALBERT FRANCIS McGRATH had been…

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Family in Accident Clergyman Has Leg Broken MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 January 1943 · page 4

Rev Leonard G. Bond. Baptist minister, of Dawson St., Ballarat, was driving a louring car with trailer attached on the Bell Brae Hilt, on the Anglesea road…

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Roy Drowned in Lacoon Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 4

Francis Thomas Moxham aged 9 of Harboard, was drowned in a lagoon near Manly today…

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Laurie Meenan Injured. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 6

Victoria's crack cross-country rider. Laurie Meenan. badly injured his right hand when his mount. Timber, crashed while schooling at Epsom on Thursday…

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Boy, Aged 11, Drowned. Burnie

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 1

Reginald Davison, aged 11. of Forest, was drowned in the Black River this afternoon while bathing. The lad slipped oft a log into deep water…

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Huon Gulf Battle Over Several Thousands of Jap Soldiers Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 1

The battle or [?]uon Gulf is over. What is left of the enemy convoy is well clear of the area and probably back in Rabaul, leaving at…

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Man Injured Wheat Carting

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

On Thursday last, Henry Collins, an old age pensioner, of Daysdale, was admitted to Corowa Hospital by ambulance, suffering from a severely…

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Youth Drowned in Undertow Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 4

Philip Davis, aged 16, war. caught in the undertow and drowned at Mt Eliza today, when he was bathing. He was .the eldest son of Mr G. A. Davis,…

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Recent Motor Fatality Inquest On Airman’s Death

The Pastoral Times · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

An inquest was commenced on Wednesday by the Coroner (Mr. Wyse) concerning the death of Keith Stillwell Wilson, who died…

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Woman Injured When Car Overturns

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 2

When a car driven by her son-in-law, Mr Colin Ross, “Wendouree,” Brocklesby, overturned on the road between Howlong and Corowa at the…

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Accident Averted

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 January 1943 · page 3

What might have been a serious accident was narrowly averted on Friday, when a pair of horses owned and driven by Mr. W. B. Mathewson became…

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Soldier Accidentally Killed On Way To Midnight Mass

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 January 1943 · page 4

CORPORAL ALBERT FRANCIS McGRATH, son-in-law of Mr. Ausbuson, of Leeton, was killed on Christmas eve in Queensland…

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Man Drowned in Barnawartha Dam

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 January 1943 · page 2

The body of a 57 years old returned soldier, Sid Gilly, was recovered from a dam near the slaughter yards, Barnawartha, at which he was…

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