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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

354 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 18

Tiny Tot Drowned SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 February 1944 · page 3

Judith Allen, aged three years, who wandered away from her home at North Sydney this morning, was later found drowned in the harbor, she having apparently fallen…

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Lad Drowned in Creek SYDENY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 February 1944 · page 3

Edward Ernest Farrow, aged 16, of Arncliff, was drowned in Wolli creek, near Tarella railway station, this afternoon. Farrow went swimming with…

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Soldiers’ Wives And Families Drowned Die in Ships Sunk Bound For Australia CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 February 1944 · page 1

The Minister for Repatriation (Mr Frost) revealed in the House of Representatives today that a number of Australian soldiers’…

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Motorist Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 February 1944 · page 4

When his car overturned at the comer of Douglas parade and North road, Newport, last night, James Joseph Boyle, aged 46 years, Bruswick st., North Fitzroy, was…

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Sad Drowning Fatality Two Children the Victims

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 1

There was a [?] wave of [?] over the town and district at the week end with Mr and Mrs Rod M‘Dennld, in the great affection that…

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Officer’s Fatal Night Swim Drowned in Home Weir

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 February 1944 · page 6

At Wodonga Coroner’s Court yesterday the deputy Cror[?]er (Mr M. returned a [?] of accidental drowning at an inquest into the…

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Lavington Lad in Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 February 1944 · page 2

Alfred William Rixon, aged 4 years, of Dudley st, Lavington was knocked down by a motor car in Townsend st about 1 p.m. yesterday. The driver of…

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Five Injured in Car-Lorry Collision SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

Five people were Injured, three of them seriously, when a motor car and a heavy lorry collided in Market st.. near Kent st.. City, tonight…

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The Children Drowned

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 1

At Berrigan a girl and boy, aged 2½ and 4 years, respectively, were drowned in the irrigation channel, a short distance from the home of their parents,…

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Soldier Fatally Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 1

A tragic accident in Melbourne resulted in the death, at Heidelberg Military Hospital, of Leo James Ferrari, son of Mr. J. W. Ferrari and the late…

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Some Unusual Accidents in 1943

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

Hundreds of times. Aloys Peters, 45, circus star, had made his death defying leap from a high platform with a hangman's noose around his…

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Over 300 Japanese Drowned When Transport Is Sunk (From Frank Dexter at General Mac- Arthur’s Headquarters)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 1

The Allied air and naval blockade has effectively neutralised Japanese air bases at Rabaul, Kavleng and Admiralty Islands…

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Man Fatally Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

John Percival Dalton, aged 52, was fatally injured when he attempted to board a tram at La Perouse last night. He was struck by a rear car and thrown to the…

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Accidents to Pedestrians

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

That 43.4 per cent of the total deaths in road accidents in NSW last year were of pedestrians again demonstrates the need for more effective education…

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Airman Critically Injured. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 4

When he fell from the platform of a train as it was parsing through Summer Hill railway station early today, Lee Conway Mills, aged 21 a member of the RAAF,…

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Old Man Drowned in Dam Fatality At Oaklands

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 March 1944 · page 3

Mr J. Beale, aged 85, an old resident of the Oaklands district, was drowned in a dam on his property on Tuesday evening. Mr Beale went out in a gig to look at…

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News of the Soldiers Flying Officer Donohoe Killed in Motor Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1944 · page 2

A gloom was cast over the town yesterday (Wednesday) morning: when the sad news was received that Plying Officer Albert Beauvais…

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Man Drowned in Dam Tragedy at Oaklands

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 3

Mr. J. Beale, aged 85, an old resident of the Oaklands district, was drowned in a dam on his property on Tuesday evening…

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Tr. Norrie Gillespie Injured Knocked Down By Car

The Pastoral Times · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 1

A message was received form Melbourne yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gillespie, stating that their son Tr. Norris Frank Gillespie, had been…

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Two Accidents on Union Bridge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 6

Whether there was a white line down the centre of the road on the [?]end on the Victorian side of the Murray prior to the Union Bridge…

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