15 Killed, Five Injured When Train Crashes Through Bus SYDNEY
North West Champion · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1
Fifteen people are dead, and five others are seriously injured, as the result of a tragic level crossing smash at Hawkesbury River today, when the Kempsey mail train crashed into a bus carrying about 20…
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Manilla Express · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
Fifteen people were killed and five were seriously injured when the Kempsey day train clashed into a bus at Hawkesbury today,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Children Injured. Auckland, N.Z.
North West Champion · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 1
Five children from an orphanage were injured, one seriously, and the others narrowly escaped, when a shell with which they were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident
North West Champion · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 4
Whilst working on the Collarenebri road on Monday morning, miles from Moree, Mr. H. Smith, is employed by the Boomi Shire, fell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ACCIDENTS. Thrown from Horse
North West Champion · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 2
Mr. Derek Hayes (18), employed on Terlings station, sustained concussion when he was thrown from a horse at about lunch time on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Airman Injured
North West Champion · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 1
Mrs. M. A. Maloney, of "Gnoulamein," Gurley, has received the following cable in connection with the injuries to her son: "Regret to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pilliga Drowning Fatality
The North Western Courier · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 4
Arthur Hughes (15), son of Mr. Alfred Amos. Hughes, of Coonamble, was drowned yesterday in Bungle Gully Creek, about 26…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident
Manilla Express · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 2
Word was received in Manilla on Tuesday afternoon that Frank (Chum) Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Green, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Wynn Baldwin Killed in Tractor Accident
Manilla Express · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 2
In tragic circumstances the death occurred at Manilla Hospital yesterday evening of Mr. Wynn Baldwin. of Lonou,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Killed, Another Injured in a Fire. Sydney
North West Champion · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 1
One man was burned to death and another injured in attempting to rescue him during a spectacular fire which gutted a large…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truck Overturned Six Passengers Injured
The North Western Courier · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 4
Late on Saturday night last a utility truck overturned at Narrabri West and came to a standstill up-side-down. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →400 DROWNED When Jap. Liner Sinks CHUNGKING, Wednes
The North Western Courier · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 1
The Central Newsagency has reported that the Japanese liner "Nanhai Maru," struck a Chinese mine near Canton recently, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents
North West Champion · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 8
Mr. V. Reynolds, of "Allambie," Moree, was thrown, off a young horse at his home yesterday morning and sustained injuries to the back. He…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Car Accident. Two Men Injured
North West Champion · Thursday 13 April 1944 · page 5
Two men were injured when a motor car in which they were travelling, after skidding on the road, collided with a post and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pea-rifle Accident
Manilla Express · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 4
A youth named Bernard Christman, son of Mrs. Christman, of Rowan Street, was accidentally shot on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pilliga Road Accident at Gwabegar
The North Western Courier · Thursday 4 May 1944 · page 10
What might of resulted in a serious accident occurred on the Pilliga-Gwabegar road on Thursday night, when a utility truck…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Accidentally Shot. Mossvale
North West Champion · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 1
William Arnold Swindell (50), of Artarmon, was fatally shot within sight of his two-year-old daughter at Bandanoon yesterday. It is thought…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Level Crossing Accident. Young
North West Champion · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 1
The death roll in yesterday's level crossing accident, in which a special stock train and a motor car collided, reached three last night when Mr. Ben…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents
North West Champion · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 4
While exercising a horse at "The Wilgas" recently, Mr. Fred, M was thrown, and as he strock the ground he was kicked on the chest by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents
North West Champion · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 4
On Saturday last Bill Frazer of 55 Oak Street, East Moree, sustained a lacerated wound on the forehead as the result of an accident at the…
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