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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

92 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 5

Bridge Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 November 1927 · page 1

Last Sunday afternoon, the intercity coach ran into a buggy and pair on the Turalla Creek bridge, on the Goulburn-Cooma road. The buggy…

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Burning Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 November 1927 · page 3

The Queanbeyan Coroner (Mr. John Gale) held an inquest last week concerning the death o£ Mrs. Anne Hellmund, which took place in…

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Collision Ix Sydney Harbour

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 November 1927 · page 1

Off Bradley’s Head, at 4.30 yesterday afternoon, the ferry steamer Greycliffe, bound for Watson’s Bay, was cut down by the steamer Tahiti…

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Harbor Collision Big Death Roll

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 November 1927 · page 6

The worst disaster in the history of the port of Sydney occurred on Thursday afternoon when the Union S.S. liner Tahiti collided with the…

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Fell Off a Waggon Mr. Gamble’s Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 November 1927 · page 1

Mr. W. A. Gamble, a well-known farmer, of Woodfield, who was admitted to Queanbeyan District Hospital last Tuesday evening, is…

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Flying Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 November 1927 · page 2

Flying Officer McKenzie Richardson was killed at East Grinstead, Sussex, last night, when his parachute failed to open…

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Fatal Collision at Canberra

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 November 1927 · page 6

One man was killed and another Injured when a motor cycle and sidecar crushed Into the railing of a bridge over Mill Greek, on the…

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Fatal Car Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 November 1927 · page 1

Mr. Charles McKone, Field Supervisor for General Motors, Ltd., died in Bega District Hospital early on Saturday morning as a result of…

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Shocking Accident at Suicide Corner Woman Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 1

A collision occurred at Canberra on Sunday last between the big Intercity Coach and a Dodge car driven by Thomas Carter and having as…

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Man Drowned in Molonglo River

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 1

At Canberra Hospital yesterday, an inquest was held by Mr. Coroner Gale touching the death of Emanuel Edwin Turner, whose body was recovered…

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Canberra Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 December 1927 · page 1

Whilst a seven-seater motor car, carrying seven residents of Young; was proceeding along the Yass-Canberra Road, about four miles from…

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Painful Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 December 1927 · page 2

Whilst throwing a handline into the the Murrumbidgee River, Mr. T. J. Murray, town clerk, who was one of a party of fishermen in the…

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