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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

354 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 18

Soldier Critically Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 6

When he fell from a train in a tunnel near St Peter’s railway station night, Sgt Gunner T. V. Heffron, aged 18, was critically injured. He…

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Scalding Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 2

William, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Steele, Jerilderie, was the victim of a nasty accident. He half filled the bath at his home with hot water,…

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600 Killed and Injured San Francisco, July 18

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 July 1944 · page 1

Twelth Naval District headquarters announced today that an ammunition ship a Port Chicagi naval depot 35 miles north cast of San Francisco,…

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17 Hurt. in Head-on Collision Wellington (Nz)

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 July 1944 · page 6

Seventeen people were injured in a head-on collision between a crowded bus and lorry at Lower Butt today. The drivers of both vehicles were…

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Finley Rd. Fatality Miss Martin’s Death

The Pastoral Times · Friday 21 July 1944 · page 3

That the death of Miss Linda Martin was due to the effects of injuries to the spine accidentally received when a utility truck overturned on…

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Fatal Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 21 July 1944 · page 1

Mr. Roy Crawley, 17-year-old sop of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Crawley, of, Boomanoomana, was killed instantly on Sunday afternoon when he fell from a…

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Four-year-old Son Drowned Father Collapses. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 3

When Gordon Taylor Water Board engineer who lives on his yacht in Mosman Bay. [?]und his lour-year-old son drowned, he suffered to badly from shock that he…

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Soldier Fatally Injured MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 July 1944 · page 2

William Clifford Minitrup, aged 36 AIF soldier died in Heidelberg Military Hospital today from injures received on Saturday night when he was struck by a…

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News of the Soldiers FLT.-SGT. J. C. Chenu Killed in Aircraft Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 3

It is with deep regret that we learn of the death, as a result of an aircraft accident of Flt.-Sgt. John Corrie Chenu, eldest son of…

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School Children Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 July 1944 · page 3

On Tuesday last while playing cricket at the High School. Ronnie Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mitchell. sustained a Very badly injured…

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Shooting Fatality Allan Sutherland Loses Life in Pea-rifle Accident at "Bucki"

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 28 July 1944 · page 1

A deep gloom was cast over the community of Henty and district on Sunday afternoon last when it became known that Allan John Mitchell Sutherland, aged 15 years and 10 months, had lost his life in a shooting accident. It appears that Allan, in company with John Duncan and…

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Tractor Fatality Inquest On Culcaim Lad's Death

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 28 July 1944 · page 6

An inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Henry Roy Crawley, aged 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Crawley, of…

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Orchardist Accidentally Shot Dead

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 July 1944 · page 2

A bullet accidentally discharged killed a Bellow. orchardist, Harold Quarmby, yesterday, lie was out shooting parrots, and was shot in the…

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Pensioner Injured Near Gerogery

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 August 1944 · page 2

At an early hour yesterday morning Percy Charles Carlles, pensioner, aged 59, walked into Albury Hospital with a broken arm, bruises, abrasions…

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R.A.A.F. Man Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 1

Struck by a military truck at the corner of Toorak road and St Kilda road on Sunday, AC1 T. H. Haughton, aged 27. of the RAAF. died in the Heidelberg hospital…

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Petrol Causes Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 3

Mr. J. Braneley, sen., of Hillston, met with an unusual accident last week. He accidentally broke a bottle of petrol and saturated his…

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Three Youths Injured When Shell Explodes SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

Three youths all apprentice fitters who were working at the same bench were injured this morning when [?]n aircraft shell cap exploded at Eveleigh…

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Many Killed and Injured; Rail Smash New York, August 6

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 1

At least 47 negro laborers were killed and 532 were Injured at Stockton, Georgia, when a passenger train hit a broken rail and crashed into a freight…

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A Sad Fatality

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1944 · page 4

An accident that was attended by a fatal result happened on the farm of Mr F. H, Dunn on Tuesday of last week. It appears that a lad, 10 years…

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Dog Stood Guard Over Injured Master LITHGOW

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 August 1944 · page 5

Searchers who secured the rough scrub country a few miles from Little Hartley last night for Louis Dull, a 64 year old Little Hartley farmer…

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