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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

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Two Men Killed Head-on Collision

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: When a motor cycle and a motor car collided head-on at the intersection of two streets in Er[?]ngton…

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Items of News Child Injured by Burns

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 2

Kevin M'Guiness, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M'Guiness, of Cowra, received a severe electric shock on Sunday…

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Airliner Forced Down Pilots and Hostess Injured 12 Passengers Unhurt

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—When the Douglas airliner Warana made a forced landing in a paddock because of engine trouble, two pilots…

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A.I.F. Casualties Staff Sergeant E. Pigdon Killed in Accident

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 1

Word was received in Lockhart on Thursday that staff Sergt. Ewan Pigdon, of that town, had been killed in an accident in Queensland…

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"Accidental Deaths" in Plane Crash

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 2

At the Inquiry into the cause of the accident by which L.A.C. Harold Thompson, of cootamundra, and L.A.C. Walker lost their lives on 8th…

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Coroner's Inquiries Into Aeroplane Accidents

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 1

THE Narandera Coroner, Mr. J. S. Dickson, conducted two inquiries into the accidents that happened near Narandera on March…

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Sydney Apprentice Injured

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 March 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The apprentice rider Thompson received serious head injuries when he was thrown against a post at Randwick…

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Drowned at Bondi Mr. Patrick J. MALONEY

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 26 March 1943 · page 2

The Coolamon community was greatly grieved and shocked when it was learned that Mr. Patrick J. Maloney, of Coolamon well-known all over Riverina, was…

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Drowned at Bondi Well Known Coolamon Man

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1943 · page 2

Mr. Patrick J. Maloney, farmer, of Coolamon, well-known all over Riverina, was drowned in the surf at Bondi yesterday afternoon. Mr. and…

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Dangled From Plane for 40 Miles Fell Into Lake and Was Drowned

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1943 · page 2

Dangling at the end of his parachute after it had become caught on a plane, a trainee was carried along for 40 miles on Thursday evening last…

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Mid-air Collision Near Wagga Remarkable Evidence at Inquest

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1943 · page 2

A trainee-pilot took over the controls of a plane after the pilot had been killed in a mid-air collision, brought the machine out…

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Two Soldiers Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 2

While travelling in a train between Kapooka and Wagga yesterday afternoon two soldiers, whose names have not been…

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Mid-air Collision Findings of Accidental Deaths Trainee-pilot's Fine Save

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 3

Evidence was given at an inquest at Wagga on Thursday that, after his instructor had been killed in mid-air in a collision with another aircraft, a…

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Injured in Train Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1943 · page 2

The men who were injured in the train accident at Wagga on Sunday afternoon were Sapper G. L. Bailey, who sustained severe head injuries…

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Drowned at Bondi

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1943 · page 1

Mr, Patrick J. Maloney, farmer, of Coolamon, well-known all over Riverina, was drowned in the surf at Bondi on Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs…

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Air Collision Two Killed SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1943 · page 1

When their aircraft collided in midair during training exercises near Sydney. Sergeant Colin Cameron Martin, 23. of Strathfield, and Sgt…

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Jockey Charged Two Women Injured by Cars

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1943 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Miss Lorne Steel, 31, of Rushcutters' Bay, was crossing King's Crossroad, near Surrey-street, to-night…

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Leeton Man Injured Disturbance in Billiard Saloon

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1943 · page 4

Following upon a disturbance in a billiard saloon in Pine avenue, Leeton, on Saturday evening, Alfred Burton, a middle aged man…

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Youth’s Arm Almost Severed Accident At Tumblong

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 April 1943 · page 2

Frank Nolan, aged 16. employed at Jellingroo Station at Tumblong, was the victim of an accident yesterday which resulted in him…

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Drowned in the Surf Well-Known Riverina Resident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 April 1943 · page 2

News of the drowning in the surf at Bondi of Mr. Patrick J. Maloney, who is the father of Sister Mary Acquines of St. Mary's Convent,…

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