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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Queensland Floods Five People Drowned; Homes Lost

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Floods, the worst in Queensland's history, have drowned five people and thousands of sheep and cattle, and destroyed crops and…

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Queensland Floods Five People Drowned And Homes Lost

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: Floods, the worst in Queensland's history, have drowned five people and thousands of sheep and cattle, and cattle, and destroyed crops…

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Air Fatality Funeral Three of the Five Buried Here

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 3

Three of the five airmen from, the Observers' School at Cootamundra who were killed when an Air Force plane from the school crashed 14…

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TUMUT D.C. Man Injured By Inflammable Bomb

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 2

Mr. Mark Macadam of Tumut, who is in charge of the Tumut contingent of the Volunteer Defence Corps, had a narrow escape from very serious…

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Griffith Boy Dies After Street Accident

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 3

GRIFFITH, Wednesday. — The death has occurred in the Griffith District Hospital of Patrick Ryan, aged 14 years, an employee of the…

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Accident at Yass Baths Swimmer Slips When Diving

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 1

John Sample, aged 7, son of Mr. J. W. Sample, had a narrow escape from more serious injury when he slipped and fell from…

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Injured at Baths

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 2

Pat Hinch, 11 year old daughter of Mrs. P. Hinch, Yunco Road, was joining in the fun at the Methodist Picnic, held at the Baths on Wednesday…

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Woman Killed in Bus Eight Injured Near Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—A woman wag fatally injured and eight other persons injured when a bus travelling from Cardiff to Newcastle skidded and…

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Jockey Injured in Race Fall at Flemington

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 February 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday,—Apprentice T. Wells, who fell from Tonlagee shortly after the start of the St. Clair Trial, second division, at Flemington this afternoon,…

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Youth Drowned at Swimming Carnival Competed In Long Dive and Disappeared Tragic Death of Norman Livermore

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 February 1942 · page 2

THE TRAGIC DEATH of young Norman Livermore at the Gundagai Swimming Carnival yesterday caused astonishment to the hundreds of people who lined the banks of the river, as the fatality occurred in the most amazing circumstances Livermore, who…

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Sixteen Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1942 · page 1

NEWPORT (Kentucky), Sunday.—Thirteen men and three women were drowned when, in a fog, a towtboat smashed against a pier of a bridge on…

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Soldier's Death Too Much Travelling After Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—Returning a finding of accidental death at the inquest on Gunner Gordon Robert Greentree, aged 21 years, the City…

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Youth Drowned at Gundagai Swimming Carnival

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1942 · page 2

Norman Livermore at the Gundagai swimming carnival on Sunday. was competing in the long dive, disappeared and, despite that over a hundred…

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Pathetic Tragedy Two Children Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 5

MELBOURNE. Thursday.—Bery[?] Svenborg lost her life to-day—her seventh birthday— In a vain attempt to save her two-year-old nephew, Robert Clarke, from drowning. The…

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Man Injured at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 2
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Mr. W. Lewis, employed in Jeff Bros flour mills at Junee came in contact with portion of the machinery and received several lacerations to the head…

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Missing—Believed Drowned PTE E. A. OLIVER

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 3

The and intelligence has been received with profound regret throughout the Matong and Darwin districts that NEX16363, 2/13 [?] Pte E. A…

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Young Man Drowned at Gundagai During Swimming Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 2

Disappearing in the water during the annual swimming carnival conducted by the Gundagai Club in the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai last…

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The Plane Fatality Coroner's Finding Crashed in Severe Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 4

In finding that the five airmen who were killed at Ungarie in a plane crash on February 11 died instantaneously from the effects of injuries…

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Youth Drowned At Gundagai Swimming Carnival Competed in Long Dive and Disappeared Tragic Death of Norman Livermore

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 1

The tragic death of young Norman Livermore at the Gundagai Swimming Carnival on Sunday caused…

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