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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

296 stories in New England's papers · page 10 of 15

120 Injured and 6 Killed in Serious Riots in Harlem

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—With 8,000 New York State Guardsmen in readiness in the city's armouries, and 6,000 police, aided by 1,500 civilian volunteers, mostly negroes, patrolling the…

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Level Crossing Fatality Delungra Tragedy Death of Mr. George Davies

The Inverell Times · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 4

A shocking tragedy occurred at the level railway crossing near the township of Delungra, about half past eight this morning, as a…

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Air Collision Three Members of R.A.A.F. Killed MELBOURNE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 2

Three airmen were killed on Wednesday when two aircraft from R.A.A.F. stations collided in mid-air and…

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Painful Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 15

Nita, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bell, of Falconer road, met with a nasty accident when she ran into a barb wire fence, inflicting a…

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Car Fatality Woman Killed WAGGA

The Inverell Times · Monday 9 August 1943 · page 1

After driving the Opposition leader, Mr. Fadden. to West Wyalong on Saturday, Mr. W. R. Snodgrass was returning home when his car skidded…

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Level Crossing Fatality Delungra Tragedy Death of Mr. George Davies

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 9 August 1943 · page 2

A shocking tragedy occurred at the level railway crossing near the township of Delungra, about half past eight on Friday morning, as a result…

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Armidale Soldier Killed Brother Seriously Injured

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 16 August 1943 · page 4

The sad news was received by Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Falconer, of 69 Markham-street, at the week-end, of the death…

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Tingha Fatality

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 August 1943 · page 4

Ernest Stanley Luxford (27), a miner, working on the Star Gully dredging plant, was fatally injured yesterday when a large boulder fell on him…

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Train Fatality Driver Exonerated

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 August 1943 · page 4

At the conclusion of evidence at the Coroner’s Court on Monday afternoon when an inquiry was held into the circumstances surrounding the tragic…

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Car Hits Lorry Collision on Tingha Road Charge of Negligent Driving

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 August 1943 · page 8

At the police court yesterday before Mr. F. T. Scroope, P.M.. William Henry McCarthy was charged with negligent driving…

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Two Injured in Surry Hills Brawl

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 21 August 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.—"William Heard (38), wharf laborer, of Surry Hills was critically injured, and William Worrall (50),…

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Delungra Crossing Fatality

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1943 · page 3

The Coroner (Mr. L. Cloonan) held an inquiry at Inverell into the tragic death of Mr. George Stanley Davies, orchardist of "Clinton,"…

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'Plane Damaged; No One Injured

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 24 August 1943 · page 1

In effecting a landing one of the aeroplanes which visited Glen innes at the week-end for the A.T.C. camp damaged the…

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Eye Injured by Tennis Ball

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 August 1943 · page 6

While watching a game of tennis at the town courts, on Sunday, Miss W. Elks, of Llangothlin-street received a serious injury to the eye…

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Thousands Drowned When Hamburg River Tunnel Gets Direct Hit LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 August 1943 · page 4

It can be revealed that 18,000 persons were drowned when the Elbe River tunnel received a direct hit during a recent heavy raid on…

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Car Fatality Shearer Killed Accident Near Warialda

The Inverell Times · Monday 30 August 1943 · page 2

Whilst proceeding from Moree to Delungra on Saturday afternoon, a motor car containing three shearers and a lad overturned five…

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Motoring Fatality Car Overturned

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 30 August 1943 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon Paul Liddy, 54 years of age, whose place of residence was Kings Cross, Sydney, was killed on the Inverell road five miles…

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Soviet Minister In Car Accident SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 30 August 1943 · page 1

The Soviet Minister to Australia, M. Andrew Vlasov and two other members of the Soviet Legation escaped injury when their car was involved in a…

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Cyclist Injured Collision With Truck

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 September 1943 · page 3

Whilst cycling to work about 4.30 this morning, Mr. J. Cox, an employee at the sanitary depot, collided with a stationary 10-ton truck. He suffered…

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Warialda Fatality

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 September 1943 · page 3

Following the car accident at Warialda on Saturday resulting in the death of Paul Liddy, on Monday at the Warialda Police Court the car…

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