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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

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Boy Injured In Fall From Bicycle

Northern Star · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 5

Richard Lonsdale, 13, son of Mr. R. Consdale, of Molesworth-street, received a probable fracture of the left collarbone when he fell from…

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Injured While Diving

Northern Star · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday—When he dived into the river at Casino this afternoon, K. Keats (13), a schoolboy, received severe lacerations to…

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Mullumbimby Accidents

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 2
Also in Northern Star

When Robert Turner, a mill hand, of Dalley Street, Mullumbimby, had his left hand caught in a skid while at his work, he…

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Boy Swimmer Injured At Brunswick Heads

Northern Star · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 4

Inglis Wotherspoon (16), of Conway-street, Lismore, sustained a fracture of the right leg above the ankle when he dived off the…

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Accident at Brunswick

Tweed Daily · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 2

Inglis Wotherspoon (16) of Conway Street, Lismore sustained a fracture of the right leg above the ankle while diving off the…

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Five Soldiers Killed in Lorry Accident

Tweed Daily · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Friday: One soldier was killed instantly, four died later and five were injured when a one-ton military lorry smashed into…

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Many Accidents at Byron Bay

Tweed Daily · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 2

Byron Bay Ambulance has been busy recently. Persons given first aid included: Robert Malin, who suffered an…

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Mother Drowned in Attempt to Rescue Children

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1943 · page 2

I SYDNEY, Monday: Mrs Marie Jamieson (32), wife of Mr R. Jamieson, chemist, was drowned when trying to rescue her two…

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Farmer Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 21 January 1943 · page 4

While loading pigs at Lismore sale yards on Tuesday, Val Hansen, farmer, of Woodburn, was jammed between a truck and a crush…

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Three in Jeep Killed In Collision

Tweed Daily · Saturday 23 January 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday: Three of seven occupants of a jeep, including one WAAF, were killed when the jeep and W. Olsson's…

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Boy Kiled In Tram-Truck Collision

Northern Star · Saturday 23 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—As a result of a collision between a military truck and a tram at Mascot today Joseph Rossitter (11), of Mascot,…

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Ankle Injured

Northern Star · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 4

While running into the surf at Ballina yesterday, Gordon Bruce Hynes, a munitions trainee at the Lismore Technical College, trod in…

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Three Airmen Killed in Plane Collision

Tweed Daily · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday: When two aircraft collided and crashed near an operational training station in Australia on Saturday…

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Injured in Fall From Bicycle

Northern Star · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 4

Thrown from a bicyclc when the brake failed near his home in Hunter-street yesterday, Vincent J. Daley received a fracture of the…

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Child Drowned

Northern Star · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 4

GOSFORD, Monday. — Leslie Frederick Durrant (2½) was drowned in Erina Creek to-day…

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Undertow Sweeps Man Cut: Drowned

Northern Star · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Keith Simpson (22), a non-swimmer, was caught in the strong undertow at Corrimal yesterday and was…

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Woman Injured

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 2

When she fell at her home in Whian Street, Mullumbimby, Mrs W. J. S. Robinson fractured her right forearm. She received first…

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Two Women Seriously Injured

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: An acetylene gas cylinder on a motor truck travelling alongside an outward-bound tramcar to Balmoral…

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War Photographer Injured in N.g

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 4

NEW GUINEA, Wednesday.—War correspondents and photographers suffered ther sixth casualty Of the Papuan campaign when…

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