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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Horseman Injured When Mount Stumbles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 1

As the result of a fall from a horse when the animal stumbled on a property near Balladoran on Sunday evening, George Wheaton (23), of…

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Thrown Prom Horse Mr. George Wheaton Injured

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 3

As the renult of a fall from a horse when the animal stumbled on a property near Balla doran on Sunday evening,…

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Sequel to Fatal Accident [?] Manslaughter

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 May 1942 · page 1

At the [?] Thursday, after the District Coroner, Mr. D. M. [?] conducted an inquest into the death of [?] 38, Leslie Albert Bolt, 26, [?] £100 bail until June 9, on…

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Traveller Injured In Collapse in Train

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 2

When he collapsed white travelling from Dubbo to Molong on a rail motor on Saturday night William George Sawyer (35), of 189 Burwood…

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Three Buses Involved in Accidents Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 1

Two mishaps involved there double-decker buses today. However, no persons were injured. A bus proceeding to Summer Hill…

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Attack Fails Jap Midget Submarines in Sydney Harbor Six Naval Man Killed; Thirteen Missing, Believed Killed, And Ten Injured

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 4 June 1942 · page 3

In the attack by Japanese midget submarines on Sydney on Sunday night, six naval men were killed, 13 are…

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Accident at Baradine

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 4 June 1942 · page 5

Mr. Victor Cook, who is employed as a mi[?]hand at Woolleybah sawmills. Baradine, met with serious accident early on…

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Nasty Accident

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 4 June 1942 · page 5

Mr. Ray Ostler, who Is employed as linotype operator at the “Times” office, met with a nasty accident on Friday last. While…

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Railwayman Injured by Falling Coal

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 June 1942 · page 2

Mr. S. George, railway employee, of 15 Bourke Street, suffered a severe laceration to the top of the head on Tuesday night when a large piece of…

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Young Dubbo Airman Killed in Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 June 1942 · page 1

The death in an accident is report of Sergent Ernest Douglas ("Doug") Bayley (20), of a Victorian RAAF station…

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Dubbo Airman Accidentally Killed

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 5

News of the death at Bairnsdale (Victoria), in an aeroplane crash, of Sergeant Ernest Douglas (“Doug.”) Bailety, of Dubbo,…

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Accident

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 4

One of the sons of the late Leo Dutton and Mrs. Doreen Dutton, of Hermidale, met with an accident through his horse falling on greasy…

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Shop Windows Smashed In Freak Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1942 · page 4

Two large plate-glass windows and a car windscreen were smashed in Talbragar Street yesterday morning in peculiar circumstances…

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Collie Man Injured Neck Believed Broken In Fall From Truck

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1942 · page 1

A probable fracture of the neck was suffered by Joseph Scott (58), contractor, of "Glenc[?]e," Collie, when he fell off a lorry load of hay…

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Local & General Serious Accident

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 5

Miss B. Foxall, of the staff of the Coonabarabran Intermediate High School, met with a serious accident while out riding a horse…

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Bomb Accidents

The Western Herald · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

Following the recent accident in Bourke to Mr. H. Webster, similar explosions are reported from other centres. A bomb exploded…

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Man Slightly Injured When Struck by Taxi

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1942 · page 4

Struck by n taxi and knocked down in Erskine Street, North Dubbo, on Saturday evening, Neil Vincent Birks, of Gipps Street, escaped with a slightly…

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Car Accident Four Soldiers Knocked Down

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 3

About 11.15 last night word was received that an accident had occurred at the Obley Road, about four miles from Dubbo,…

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Four AIF Men Struck By Car and Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1942 · page 2

Four soldiers narrowly escaped serious injuries in the early hours of yesterday morning when they Mere knocked down by a motor car…

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Two Dead 20 Injured in Gale Melbohrne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1942 · page 1

Two men were fatally i injured, eight others injured and 12 received minor hurts when a big timber framed building being constructed…

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