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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Distinguished Airman Injured at Football

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 4

While playing football for Yanco against Leeton on Sunday afternoon at the Leeton sports ground. Stanley Webster, a…

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Collision with Train Motorist Charged with Negligent Driving

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 4

Francis Charles Gladman was charged with negligent driving, failure to report an accident and with being an unlicensed driver…

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Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Girl's Leg Fractured Collision at Football Match

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 4

The enthusiasm of an onlooker, and the desire of a line umpire at a Rugby League football match to be at a certain spot…

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Accidental Death Mr. Darcy B. M'gee Motor Accident Near Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 4

The coroner (Mr. Hugh Oates) returned a finding of accidental death when he conducted an inquest yesterday into the cause of death of Mr…

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Twenty-two Injured Riverina Express Derailed

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 June 1945 · page 2

Twenty-two persons, including driver and fireman, were injured when the Riverina Express was derailed two miles from Tahmoor, near Picton,…

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Disastrous Floods and Gales Mother and Four Children Drowned

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1945 · page 1

R.A.A.F. planes from Brisbane on Tuesday dropped food and blankets for flooded-cut families at Murwillumbah and Lismore, whore hundreds…

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Schoolboy Injured

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 4

Eric Antill aged 12 years, of 27 Best-street. Wagga was admitted to lthe Wagga Base Hospital yesterday suffering from slight concussion and…

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Fifty Killed Train Collision in Italy

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 1

ROME, Friday: At least 50 persons were killed and many more injured yesterday when two trains carrying Allied personnel and…

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Fatal Collision Ambulance Waggon and Cart

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 4

KATOOMBA, Friday: While loading a butcher's cart in front of a shop in Katoomba during the early morning mist to-day, James…

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Man Drowned It Wollundry Lagoon Apparently Slipped on Bank

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 4

Missing from his home since about 6 o'clock on Thursday night, the body of Mr. Herbert Holloway aged 76 years, of 69 Thorne-street…

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Car Overturns in Wagga Street Driver Injured: Passengers Escape

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 4

Mr. Ernest Edward Diebert, aged 62 years, of Fitzmaurice-street, wagga, was admitted to the Wagga Base Hospital last night…

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Accident At Yellowin

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 18 June 1945 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dowling had a miraculous escape from more serious injuries when their horse bolted at Yellowin on Friday last, smashing the…

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Negligent Driving Charge Collision with Train on Back Yanco Road

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 June 1945 · page 4

A NARROW escape from injury or death when a motor lorry collided with a train at the level crossing on the back Yanco…

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Accidental Death Russian Commander in Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): Berlin radio to-day announced the death of the Russian commandant [?] Berlin (Colonel-General…

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Three Drowned Taxi Hurtles Into Creek

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY. Wed.: When a taxi was returning from Bill[?]udgel, about 20 miles from Murwillumbah. to-day three people were…

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Repatriated P.o.w. Seriously Injured Near Yass

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 June 1945 · page 4

Private Thomas Johnson, a repatriated prisoner of war, of Canterbury, Victoria, lies seriously injured in the Yass District…

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Repatriated P.o.w. Seriously Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 June 1945 · page 5

Private Thomas Johnson, a repatriated prisoner of war, of Canterbury. Victors lies seriously injured in the District Hospital at Yass…

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Fatal Motor Car Accident Story of Survivor

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 June 1945 · page 2

An admission to police that he had escaped from a taxi cab which hurtled 50 feet over a bank into Dunbible Creek near Murwillumbah and…

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British Seaman Injured

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: When he was struck by a tram tonight, Stanley Robinson, 24. British naval rating suffered a probable…

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Lads Injured by Firearm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 2

While testing out an old 22 calibre pea-rifle late on Saturday afternoon, two boys received facial injuries when the weapon…

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