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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Wagga Street Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

Running across Baylis-street, Wagga, yesterday afternoon, a small boy narrowly missed being struck by a large military vehicle…

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Injured Playing Football

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 2

On Sunday evening Michael Grant, of 67 Tirana street, Wagga, while playing football sustained a fracture to the arm. He was…

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Miraculous Escapes From Drowning When Launch Fails Three Men Caught in Heavy Seas

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 3

GOSFORD, Monday: Fighting terrific seas from yesterday afternoon until 5 o'clock this afternoon, three Sydney men had…

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Luxury Liner Ablaze Many Passengers Injured

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1945 · page 1

SARNIA (Ontario), Wed : Many of the 225 pasengers on board the Great Lakes luxury liner. Harmonic, were burned and injured…

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Express Crashes Into Goods Train Driver Killed and 52 People Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Sun.: The midday express from Glasgow to Euston (London), with 600 passengers on…

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Shire Utility Crashed Into Tree Sheridan Street Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 8

On Saturday evening last, Electrical Engineer to the Gundagai Shire Council (Mr R. E. Moore) a fortunate escape from serious…

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Cyclist Injured in Kurrajong Avenue

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 3

Keith Lamont was riding his bicycle along Kurrajong Avenue on Sunday night when he was struck by a motor vehicle and remembered…

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Horse Destroyed At Wagga Training Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 6

Well-known Melbourne sportsman Mr. Eddie O'Brien and trainer Laorie Cox suffered a severe loss yesterday morning when the promising galloper…

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Collision Near Bridge

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1945 · page 2

A collision between a motor vehicle and a horse drawn lorry occurred on Saturday at 6.30 p.m. at a point past the Hampden…

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Man Killed in Car-Truck Collision

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Flung to the roadway from his car when it was involved in a collision with a utility truck at Concord…

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Lorry Overturns Sixteen Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 July 1945 · page 3

A large International lorry, the property, of Mr. Geo. Williams, carrier, of Stockinbingal, overturned on a hill about three miles on the…

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Child Accidentally Smothered The Coroner's Inquest

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 31 July 1945 · page 4

AT the conclusion of an inquest into the death of a two-months old baby, Dorothy May Greenwood, at the Leeton Court House…

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Police Sergeant Injured in Motor Cycle Crash

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1945 · page 2

Sergeant Ted Ritchie was admitted to the District Hospital yesterday as the result of a crash from the police motor cycle and side car, suffering…

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War Casualties Accidentally Wounded Nx140355 Pte. LESLIE S. GAVEL has been wounded accidentally

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1945 · page 2

A telegram to this effect was received by his parents Mr. and Mrs. G. Gavel of Wandoo Street, on Tuesday last…

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Sixth Division Commander Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Sunday: Major General J. E. S. Stevens commanding officer of the Sixth Division was slightly injured in an aircraft…

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Manslaughter Charge Follows Truck and Car Collision

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1945 · page 2

WOLLONGONG. Monday: Hedley Arthur Bell of Kogarah, was charged with manslaughter and with driving under the influence…

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Accidentally Wounded

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1945 · page 2

Former residents of Narandera. Mr. and Mrs. G. Gavel, of Leeton, were last week officially notified that their son. Pte. Leslie S. Gavel, had been…

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Courtship Injured at Randwick

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 August 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY. Tuesday: Courtship whose first three-year-old engagement was to be the Hobartville States at the Red Cross…

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Can You Beat It?- a Chapter of Accidents at Gobarralong

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 August 1945 · page 2

A recent paragraph from an old Gundagai Times which described the dirty doings at a Gundagai funeral some 70 years ago has…

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Fettlers Injured in Derailment

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 August 1945 · page 5

When the tricycles conveying about twenty fettlers to their work were detailed near Barmedman on Monday morning, five men were admitted to…

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