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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Two Injured in Road Smash

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 3

When a car collided with another [?] Mayfield this morning the driver and his wife were injured. They were Alan Wilmott, 26, of…

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Seaman's Death After Carnival Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 2

Attempting to alight from a moving horse-o-plane at the carnival at Parnell Place on Saturday night. William Daniel Chant, 20, seaman, of…

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Through Car's Steel Roof 2 Killed, 5 Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—When a car crashed into a culvert and somersaulted in Essendon to-night, two of the seven occupants were…

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Cessnock Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 2

When David Hunter. 45, of Milton-avenue. Cessnock, fell in Vincent-street yesterday, he received head injuries as well as lacerations to the…

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Northern Man Killed in Jeep Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— L/Ae. Peter Abererombic, of Belmont and Cessnock was killed in a jeep accident on the Richmond-road last…

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Jockey Injured in Fall in 1938 Dies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — J. Castles, a former cross-country jockey, who had his spinal cord severed in a fall at Ascot in July, 1938, died…

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Today's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 5

This afternoon, two young boys trod on broken glass and had to have stitches inserted in the wounds John Taylor, aged 11. of Darby…

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Youth Drowned at The Entrance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 2

GOSFORD, Sunday.—John William Brown, 18 of Wyong, was drowned in the surf at The Entrance to-day. He was near a sand bar when he…

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21st. Car Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 6

GRAFTON: Sir Earle Page met with his 21st motor car accident yesterday. While he was motoring in…

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Boys Injured By Exploding Shell

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 8

AUCKLAND.—Boys played with a live shell they found near Hastings Drill Hall until Donald Lowe, aped 14, tried to knock the cap off against…

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Miner Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 4

Edward James, 26, Pokolbin-street, Kearsley a miner at Aberdare colliery, received a probable fracture of the right…

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Legs Broken in Road Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 2

Compound fractures of both less were suffered by Alan Solomon, 7, of Rear-street, Lambton, when he was struck by a motor-lorry on…

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Unsolved Mystery in Dual Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—"One of those mysterious tragedies that occur in swimming" was the description applied to a double drowning in the…

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Apprentice Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 3

Alee McPhee, 19, of Dudley, an apprentice al Cardiff Workshops, had his toes crushed when a trolly ran over…

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Kesselring's Eight Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 2

Australian Associated Press LONDON, Thursday.—Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring, German commander in Italy, has been…

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Accidentally Shot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 4

When Duncan Tweedie, 25. Chidgey street, Cessnock, was out shooting yesterday the gun accidentally exploded. A bullet entered his right…

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Kesselring Has His Eighth Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, January 12. A.A.P.—Marshal Kesselring, German Commander-in-Chief in Italy, was shaking off the effect of his eighth…

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Brothers Hurt in Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 3

A 13-year-old boy and his three- year-old brother were injured in accidents at Maitland on Saturday. Guy Duggan, 13 of Portland-street…

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Boy's Death Follows Bicycle Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 3

Thomas Peattie, 11, of Main-road. Cardiff Heights died in Wallsend Hospital yesterday from injuries he received in an accident a fortnight…

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Airman Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Evans, of Lawson-street. Hamilton South, have been notified by the Minister for Air that their son, Acting Flying…

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