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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

54 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 3

Bus Overturns Many Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 September 1945 · page 2

Forty-eight people were injured and 26 were admitted to Maitland, Kurri Kurri, and Cessnock hospitals yesterday afternoon as the result of…

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Telegraphic News Prisoners of War Drowned

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE.—British prisoners on war who arrived by air yesterday reveal that 517 British prisoners of was were drowned in Rabaul harbour in…

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Four Drowned Car Capsized Into Creek

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 2

A man and three children were killed on Monday when a overturned near Guyra fell into a creak…

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Train Wrecked Many Dead and Injured LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 2

The death-roll in the Perth-London express smash, 30 miles from Euston (London terminal) yesterday has reached 51. In addition, 47…

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Mill Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 October 1945 · page 2

Braldwood Ambulance received a hurried call on Tuesday from Messrs. Moore & Wills' sawmill at .Togganeggera, where a. nasty accident had…

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Car Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 October 1945 · page 2

A motor utility which was approaching Michelago about 10.15 p.m. one last week overturned twice, the occupants, two men from Central…

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Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1945 · page 3

Mr. Bill Goward had a nasty accident when travelling to Araluen with little on Friday night. Crossing Bell's [?] bridge his horse fell, throwing…

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Accident to Bay on Escala[?]o

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 2

Slipping on a descending escalator at Wynyard Railway Station on Sunday, 11-year-old John Philpot, of North Sydney, had his hand caught…

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Araluen Notes Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 November 1945 · page 2

While felling timber about three miles from his home, in company with Mr. J. Marshall, of Deep Greek, Mr. R. Sturgiss met with a nasty…

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Thirty Drowned Bombay Tidal Wave LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 November 1945 · page 1

A tidal wave which swept twenty feet high across Bombay’s palm Beach on Wednesday, drowned thirty persons…

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Shocking Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 November 1945 · page 2

A 12-year-old boy, Maxwell Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Brown, of "Trafalgar," a few miles from Young, was shockingly injured when caught…

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Naval Rating Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 1

A naval rating from the air-craft carrier, H.M.S. Implacable, Jock Maccauley, 22, was drowned in the Bong Bong River, Moss Vale, about…

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General Patton Hurt in Collision LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 2

General George S. Patton, farmer commander of the U.S. Third Army, was seriously injured when his sedan collided with a big army truck wear…

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Moruya Tragedies Women Dies in Crash; Two Drowned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 December 1945 · page 2

A woman was killed in a motor car accident and two boys were drowned at Moruya on Sunday afternoon. They were: Mrs. Lillian Boots, of Leeton…

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