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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Motor-cycle Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A motor-cycle accident which happened at Port Melbourne on Saturday afternoon was attended by serious consequences to Arthur Martini (27), of…

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Colonel Oswald Watt. Drowned While Surfing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

Colonel Walter Oswald Watt, O.B.E., Ceroid Gaerre, and Legion of Honor, was drowned in the surf near Newport on Saturday morning. In accordance with his usual custom, Colonel…

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Colonel Watt. Drowned Near Newport. Splendid War Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 8

Colonel Walter Oswald Watt, late of the Australian Flying Corps, and a director of the firm of Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt, and Sanderson, Ltd., was found drowned at Bilgola…

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Fell From Trams. Woman and Boy Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 6

Concussion of the brain and scalp wounds in each case were sustained by an elderly woman and a boy through falling from moving trams yesterday…

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Thrown From Horses. Boy Killed, Man Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 6

Herbert Charles Vandenberg (14), lately residing at North Sydney, died on Saturday afternoon from the effects of a fall from a horse in Alfred Street earlier in the day…

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Motor Car Capsized Five Occupants Injured LISMORE

Evening News · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 4

A [?] motor [?] occurred yesterday afternoon next [?] to a car containing [?] of [?]. William Donn,…

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Aeroplane Smash. Three Killed. Machine in "Back-wash" Sunday Afternoon Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Port Melbourne the scene of a calamitous aeroplane smash this afternoon. An Avro machine, piloted by Major Ross,…

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Washed Off the Rocks. Rescue by Fishing Line. One Man Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 4

Three men were washed off the rocks at Little Bay yesterday morning, and one was drowned. Sydney Fitzhenry, Cecil Smith, and James…

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Washed Off the Rocks Fisherman at Little Bay. One Man Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 9

A fishing party on the rocks at Little Bay [?]sterday was swept into the sea by an un[?]pectedly big wave, and one of them, Sidney [?]crules Fitzhenry, aged 30, who lived in…

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Aviation Disaster. Two Men Killed, Another Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 9

In the sight of hundreds of people on the beach at Fisherman's Bend, Port Melbourne, this afternoon, an Avro aeroplane, owned by the Shaw-Ross Engineering and Aviation…

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Motor Capsizes Five Men Injured Thrown Into Ditch Alstonville

The Sun · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 8

Five Alstonville residents were injured, one dangerously, in a motor accident when returning from Byron Bay last night…

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Frightfully Injured Run Over by a Tram Leg Off and Skull Fractured

The Sun · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 7

A man named Jacob Abrahams, aged 66, whose address is unknown, was frightfully injured in Pitt-street, near Circular Quay, about noon to-day…

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Man's Leg Cut Of Tram Accident Near Quay

Evening News · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

An elderly man, whose name is not [?] met [?] He was [?] when…

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Railway Collision Goods Trains Crash Head On Engine-driver Injured MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 6

Up and down goods trains collided at 6 o'clock this morning at a point about a mile on the Melbourne side of St. Arnaud. Driver Wheeler was…

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Electrician Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 15

Herbert Anderson Proudfoot, an electric main, repairer, was working at the top of an electric sole in Pacific St. Manly, yesterday afternoon, when the pole snapped at the ground level…

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Boy Fatally Injured. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 10

On Saturday afternoon Aubrey Milton Cameron, aged 11 years, was riding a pony in a lane, when the pony slipped and fell on him. This caused the boy to lose his grip of the…

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Motor Car Capsizes. Bank Manager Seriously Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 14

ALSTONVILLE, Monday.--A motor accident occurred yesterday afternoon near the canal bridge at Ballina. A party of Alstonville residents bad been to Byron Bay to view the wreck…

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Motor Car Smash. Five People Injured. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 9

About 5 p.m. yesterday a serious motor car accident occurred about two miles out from Ballina on the Tintenbar-road, when a car containing five residents of Alstonville, who…

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