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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

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Abebmain Accident Run Over by Train

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 5

Kenneth Gilmore, 26, living at Islington, and at present boarding in West Maitland, was run over by a train at Abermain at midnight…

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Hunting Accident Viscount's Sister's Fall LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 1

Miss Agatha Beaumont, 22, the youngest sister, of Viscount Allendale, fell while hunting. She received a fractured skull and both her…

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Top-hand Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 5

Alfred Wilkinson, a top-hand employed at Pelaw Main Collery, was admitted to Kurri hospital this morning with injuries to the neck and…

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Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 6

Mr. Kenneth Gilmore, a coal guard, employed by the South Maitland Railways, Limited, living in church-street, West Maitland was seriously injured in the…

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Thrown From Carriage Lord Rosebery Injured Accident at Epsom London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 1

Lord Rosebery, a former Prime Minister, was badly shaken when driving on Epsom Downs, where he is daily a picturesque figure, riding in a…

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Premature Explosion Two Quarrymen Injured MACKAY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 5

Thomas Paterson, 33, and Richard Daly, 45, employed at Mount Bennett quarry, were perched on top of an 80 foot face of rock preparing a…

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Signalman Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 February 1926 · page 8

While unloading trucks at Honey-suckle goods-sheds to-day, Stanley Laycock, 37. was crushed beneath some timber, and received internal…

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Child Shot Accident With Pea Rifle

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 February 1926 · page 5

Edward Ward, 3 having at Oak-hampton-road, West Maitland, was accidentally shot by a pea-rifle at Oak-hampton-road yesterday afternoon…

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Motorist Fined £10 Hunter-street Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 5

The sequel to a collision between a motor car and a sulky in Hunter-street on the night of November 15 was heard before Mr. Shropshire…

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Ran Into Lorry Cyclist Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 5

Alfred James Scotman, 14, living at 47 Little Gipps-street. Carrington employed at a shop boy at campbell's hairdressers was riding a…

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Seaman Drowned Body Recovered SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 5

The body of Walter Joseph Hardy, 55, seaman, who was drowned in Woolloomooloo Bay on Friday by falling from the steamer Port Kembla,…

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Motor Cyclist Hurt Collision With Car

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 9

Basil Besoff, living at Cessnock, was riding a motor cycle along Parallel-street West Maitland, in he direction of Maitland Speedway last night,…

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Maitland District Motor Cyclist Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 6

A collision between a motor car and a motor cycle occurred at about eight o'clock last evening, in Parallel-street, West Maitland, near the exit from…

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Drowned in Pool Tragic Sequel to Flood TOWNSVILLE

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 5

Following on the foods in Townsville, a 4½ years old child. Hazel Hewitt, was found drowned in a pool of water. She ran cut of sight of her…

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Airman Killed Crash at Canberra Machine Wrecked Another Man Injured SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 5

At 10.30 this morning a Defence Department aeroplane crashed near Canberra FLYING OFFICER PITT, of…

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The Sun Stop-press Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 6

James wallace 30, of Maitland-road Islington had his left arm wounded by a piece of street from at Lysaghts this afternoon…

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Cricketer Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 3

W. Lullan, while batting for G. P. O. against Broadmeadow Loco., in the city and suburban cricket competition, on District Park, this afternoon…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 4

Among the articles found on the unidentified body of a man discovered early yesterday morning alongside the railway lines near the Sulphide signal box between…

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Cyclist's Fall. Roy Cotton Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 4

While training on Wallsend cycling track Roy Cotton collided with a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Camp Mission. He fell heavily, and…

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Injured While Diving SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 5

Diving into shallow water at Ettalong Beach. Woy woy, Harold Packham 32 of Midson-road, Epping struck his head on the bottom and…

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