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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

320 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 16

Child's Brain Injured; Kicked by Horse

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

A three-year-old child, Elleep, Con-Marrar, was admitted to Lewisham Hospital, Wagga, yesterday suffering with a probable fracture of the…

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Aged Man Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 4

Struck by a car an [?] Russen [?], on Sa[?]y [?]ing, William Pester, ag[?] 6[?] of [?] st., west Melbourne, received a [?] sk[?] [?] was ao[?] to Royal…

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V. D .C. Personnel in Car Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

When a mile from Culcairn on the Holbrook side early yesterday morning, a car in which a party of Holbrook V D C personnel going to parade…

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Ex-editor of “P.m.” Injured. London, June 7

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 1

Capt Halph Ingersoll of the United States Army, former editor of the newspaper “PM.” of New York, was knocked down by a taxi yesterday when crossing a street…

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Heavy Loss of Life Munition Ship and Tanker In Collision WASHINGTON. June 7

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 2

The Navy Department announces that merchant ship, laden with ammunition, was lost and a tanker was set on fire as a result of a collision off the east coast…

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Remarkable Pea Rifle Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 2

On May 23, Pte. E. Murphy, of Gunmain, met with a remarkable pea rifle accident. He was dismantling the rifle, when he barrel slipped from…

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Thurgoona Woman Accidentally Shot

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 2

Mrs Phoebe Philips, aged 55, of Thurgoona, was admitted to Albury hospital early last evening with a .22 calibre bullet wound in her chest. Mrs…

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Racehorse Fatally Injured. Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 4

While running on the track at Broadmeadows this morning. Lucky Son crashed into the outside running rail and died few minutes from a broken…

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Car in Two Crashes Driver Killed Conveying Injured Man to Hospital Melbourne

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 3

One man was fatally injured and another, seriously injured on Saturday when a car was involved in two accidents on the Hume Highway,…

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P.O. Brennan Killed Distinguished Flyer in Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— Pilot-Officer V. P. Brennan, D.F.C., D.F.M., who returned to Australia recently, after distinguished service in Europe…

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Remarkable Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 2

Cootamundra is without the services of one of its taxis as the result of an accident which caused one to be destroyed by fire. One owned and driven…

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Girl’s Spine Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 1

Recently Miss Lynette Keely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keely, of Leeton, with a serious accident and sustained an injury to her spine. Miss…

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U.S. Employment Accidents WASHINGTON, June 16

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 2

United press says that accident in employment In the United States between July. 1940, and January. 1943, resulted in 48,500 being killed—a higher toll than the…

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Man Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 4

Fatal injuries were received by Joseph Kennedy, aged 37, of Maribyrnong road. Ascot Vale, when he fell from a bus at the corner of Union and Maribyrnong…

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Man Seriously Injured Accident At Mathoura

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 1

An old identity of Mathoura, Mr. Charlie Ramsay, was seriously injured at Mathoura railway station on Friday afternoon when a railway…

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Verdicts of Accidental Deaths at Wagga

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 June 1943 · page 2

Verdict of death from natural causes was returned by the Coroner, Mr Hugh Oates, at two inquests held in Wagga yesterday. One was into the death…

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Truck Crashes Into Building Accident at Albury Station

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 June 1943 · page 4

A RAF. Rail Transport staff at Albury railway station experienced thrills yesterday when an empty goods truck, after being forced over the…

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Woman Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 June 1943 · page 2

Jean Lambert, aged 25, of Olive st [?]uth, was injured yesterday morning when struck by a motor truck at the intersection of Olive and Smollett [?]ts…

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Car Passenger Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 June 1943 · page 1

When two motor cars coll[?]ded at the intersection of Glenferrle road and High St.. Malern. early today, Donald Craven, aged 32, Gatehouse St., Parkville. a passenger in…

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Injured When Home-made Bomb Explodes. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 June 1943 · page 2

A 17-year-old school boy. Kenneth Knight, of Mcrrylands, was severely injured today by an explosion of a homemade bomb with he and two other school…

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