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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

580 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 29

Two Injured in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 5

A motor cyclist and pillion rider were injured when the machine and a car collided at the Cross Roads, yesterday afternoon…

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Accident Restored Violinist's Skill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 6

Following a plane crash while in the R.A.F., David Burt, known as "The Great Bertini," become paralysed for 16 months and was unable to…

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Miners Injured in Pit Mishaps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1945 · page 5

Edward Knight, 45, of Teralba, employee of Northern Extended mine, had his right foot crushed when a waggon ran over it. Lake Macquarie…

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Miner's Foot Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 5

Frederick Proudlock, 33, of Thomas-street, Wallsend, a miner at Rhondda colliery was token to Wallsend Hospital by Wallsend…

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Mineworker Injured by Fall of Stone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 2

Lewis Davies, 45, of Speers Point, received severe abrasions to both legs, right arm and back when struck by a fall of stone at…

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Injured League Players Replaced by Reserves Sports Ground Match

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 15

Three reserve graders, E. Hetherington, P. Clarke and J. Pascoe, have been promoted for the first grade League match between North and West at the Sports Ground tomorrow. In each case they are replacing players injured last Saturday…

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Footballer Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 April 1945 · page 8

J. Allanson. 17, of Henry Street, Merewether, was Injured today while playing in a Soccer match at Wallsend when he collided with another…

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Cessnock Accident's

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 April 1945 · page 5

John Gall, 57, of Edgeworth St., South Cessnock, a miner employed at Aberdare Colliery, was struck by a fall of coal and had several ribs…

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Man Drowned on Cruise

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The body of Robert William Ray McKenzie, 50, of Pymble, was washed up on Manly Beach this morning. McKenzie left…

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One Dead, Two Injured Lorry Capsizes at Boolaroo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 April 1945 · page 1

John Edward Richard Bede nicks, 36 of Davis-street, Speers Point, was killed near Teralba on Saturday night when a lorry swerved to avoid a…

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Child Drowned in Well

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1945 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Monday.—Daphne Coates, 4, living with her parents in Gray-street, Keiraville, was found drowned in a disused well near her…

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Want Injured Men Paid for Time at Hospital

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

There was no provision in the Ship Painters and Dockers' award for payment to men who lost time attending hospital, said the Minister for Public…

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"Girl's Death Was Accident"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1945 · page 6

Pinned beneath a motor-car which skidded over an embankment on the New England Highway near Four-mile Creek on April 15. Shirley Mary Yates,…

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Finger Injured in Bone Crusher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1945 · page 10

Kevin Driscoll, 17, of Nelson-street Wallsend, was operating a bone-crusher at Newcastle Abattoir when he had the third finger of…

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Three Footballers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 May 1945 · page 5

Three footballers were injured during games at the week-end. Walter Porter, 17, of Minmi-road, Young Wallsend, had a finger of…

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Fisherman Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 May 1945 · page 2

Washed from the rocks while fishing at One Mile Beach, Nelson's Bay, on Saturday, William Thomson, of Thomas-street, Adamstown,…

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Circus Performer Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 May 1945 · page 13

SYDNEY.— When a wooden ladder broke during last night's performance at Wirth's Circus. Joyce McDonald (15) crashed to the ground…

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Man Gravely Injured in Fall From Mast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—August Signell, 57, seaman, of Bondi, fell 30 feet from the mast of a ship in Darling Harbour. He received broken…

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Adamstown Death Trap: Boy Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 May 1945 · page 5

The notorious Pacific Highway-South Street road junction death trap, Adamstown, was again the scene of a serious…

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Brooklyn Survivor Seriously Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Raphael Italiano, 65, of Annandale, who was injured, and whose family was killed, in the Brooklyn level crossing tragedy…

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