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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 32

Roy Hinton Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1943 · page 4

The Newcastle apprentice, Roy Hinton, had his right leg broken in a fall at Morce races on Saturday. He was admitted to hospital…

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Child Fatally Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Elwyn Barbara Sutton, 7, of Chatswood, was fatally injured when she was run over by a motor-car on Pacific…

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Yesterday's Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1943 · page 5

Kenneth Cousins, 3, of Speers Point, fractured his left arm when he fell from a tricycle. Lake Macquarie Ambulance took him to…

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Road Accident Cuts Off Gosford Electricity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1943 · page 3

GOSFORD, Tuesday.—Owned by the Lake Macquarie Shire Council, a heavy truck containing two men crashed into an electric light standard…

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Slaying Charge Follows Sulky Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 April 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Ernest George Amos, 29, laborer was charged before Mr. Harris, SM. at Parramatta Court today, with feloniously…

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Mineworker Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 April 1943 · page 3

Herbert Cook, 17, of Dickenson Street, Charlestown, was taken to a private hospital after an accident at the Burwood Colliery this…

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Police Sergeant Fatally Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1943 · page 2

Sergeant W. T. Ryan, of Mayfield police, who was injured in a motoring accident in the Gloucester district on Tuesday, died soon…

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One Pilot Killed in Air Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1943 · page 3

Sergeant Raymond Jack Blackie, a pilot, of North Bondi, was killed when two aircraft collided during training exercises along the north…

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Killed in Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1943 · page 5

SERGEANT REX PALMER, 30, of Newcastle, who was accidentally killed while on active service…

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Colliery Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 April 1943 · page 3

Richard While, 40, of Power Street, Islington, a loco, driver employed at the John Darling Colliery was injured this afternoon…

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Injured in Collision at Broadmeadow

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 3

Two people were injured when a car in which they were passengers came into collision with a tram at Nine Ways…

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Five Soldiers Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—The names of the five soldiers who were drowned when two assault boats capsized during…

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Woman Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 3

Struck by a motor vehicle in High Street. West Maitland, this morning Mrs. Merle Dann. 30, of James Street, West Maitland,…

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Mine Workers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 6

Richard White, 46, of Power-street, Islington, fractured ribs on the right side and injured his right hip when he fell from a locomotive at John…

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Shunter Fatally Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 2

George Schneider, about 40, of 5A Railway-street, Wickham, was fatally injured late last night when jammed between trucks near Port…

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In Sydney— 50 Hurt in Tram Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—About 50 persons, most of them elderly women, were injured to-day when a runaway tram…

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86 Service Men Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, April 30.—Eighty-one Servicemen were drowned when two barges were overwhelmed in rough seas off the Welsh coast on Saturday…

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Child Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 3

Ten-year-old Neville Blanche, ofg 123 Teralba Road, Adamstown, fractured his left elbow when he fell in the children's playing area…

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Boy of 4 Drowned in Dam

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 2

While playing with several small friends on the banks of a dam at Islington early this afternoon, Kenneth Lewis,…

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Three Dead in Road Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Two men and a woman were killed by a motorcar on the Castlemaine-Maryborough road, Newstead, yesterday afternoon…

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