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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Accident at Yanko Man Badly Burnt

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 29 November 1945 · page 3

A young man named Walter Sutton son of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Sutton, of Deniliquin (formerly of Jerilderie) was the victim of a…

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Italian Pow Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 December 1945 · page 2

Carmine Romano, an Italian POW, was drowned in the Murray River late yesterday afternoon in a feet of water just below the camp. With five other…

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Mission Worker Fatally Injured MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 December 1945 · page 2

Injured when a RAAF. truck, crashed into the car in which she was travelling, Miss Ailsa Stewart, aged 34 mission-worker of Ascot Vale, died in…

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Sunday Night’s “Accident”

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 December 1945 · page 1

A man was knocked down and killed by a [?]it-and-run motorist in Cressy street on Sunday night . . . The driver of the car has not been found . . . He…

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Man Critically Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 December 1945 · page 2

Mr L. Flatt, who is employed by Mr N. C. Bolt, of Yarrawonga, was critically injured yesterday mien the tractor he was driving over-turned when…

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4000 Are Drowned Villages Engulfed; 40,000 Homeless KARACHI

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 December 1945 · page 1

Four thousand people are believed to have been drowned and 40,000 left homeless when several villages were washed away in a tidal wave…

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Fell From Bridge and Killed Fatal Accident Near Tallangatta

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 December 1945 · page 2

A railway employe, William McGregor Newman, aged 28, wan killed on Monday morning at Derbyshire, near Tallangatta, when he fell 12…

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Carpenter’s Fatal Fall Accident at Yarrawonga

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 December 1945 · page 2

[?] working on contraction at silos at the flour mills at Yarrawonga yesterday, George Edward Guymer, aged 42, of Rutherglen, a leading…

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Gay Revelry Killed in Accident Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 December 1945 · page 5

Following an accident on the track at Caulfield this morning, Gay Revelry, surprise winner at Caulfield last Saturday week, was destroyed…

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Mysterious Motor Accident PERTH

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 December 1945 · page 2

Two women were killed instantly a man seriously injured just [?] boon today when a sedan car [?] the Great Eastern Highway…

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Items of News Elderly Man Has Bicycle Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 December 1945 · page 2

An elderly man, Mr J. J. Tanner, of Barnawartha, was admitted to Albury hospital yesterday titter a fall from a bicycle. He was badly shaken,…

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Oaklands Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 December 1945 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon, Mr Robert Mackie, of Oaklands, fell from his bicycle in the Oaklands main Street. He was taken to Corowa hospital by…

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A Young Sailor Drowned SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 December 1945 · page 2

A 20 year old member of the Ra: was drowned near Mossrvale today James McAuley was swimming in tin river when he suffered a cramp and…

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A Politician Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 December 1945 · page 5

Senator J. Large received facial injuries when he was hit by a car after he had alighted from a bus at South Hurstville yesterday. He was taken to…

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Six Die In Accidents Toll At The Week-end SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 December 1945 · page 2

Sydney’s death roll as the result of accidents yesterday totalled six, including a 70 year old man, who fell over a 70 foot cliff at Manly…

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Injured by Broken Bottle

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 1

Joyce Bond, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bond, sustained an incised wound to the left foot on Sunday, when she stood on a broken bottle at the…

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Four Men Drowned; Tug Sinks LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 2

Four were drowned when a tug assisting the Royal Mail liner, Highland Monarch, sank after colliding with the liner at Southampton. There of…

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General Patton Seriously Injured Frankfurt, Monday. AAP

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 3

General Patton was seriously injured in a motor car accident. His sedan collided with a big army truck [?] Mannheim. He is suffering…

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Road Accidents Taking Heavy Toll of life SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 6

Eight per cent of road accidents continue to take a heavy toll of lire in NSW and for the three months ended September last, there were 2411…

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Air Force Officer Fatally Injured Jeep Overturns on Tocumwal Finley Road

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 December 1945 · page 3

As a result of an accident, in which a jeep turned over on the Tocumwal-Finley road on Tuesday night, Fit-Lieut Kenneth George McKenzie…

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