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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 187

Died After Riding Accident Nairobi

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

CAPTAIN Sir Pyers Mostyn, late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who married Miss Margery Marks, eldest daughter of the late Alfred Marks…

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Doctor Reaches Crash Victims Injured Men Treated Beside The Wrecked Stinson Survivor's Heroic Struggle for Water Agonising Trips to Creek by Mr. Binstead Men's Condition Serious But Improving Rescuers' Grim Journey Beaudesert

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 1

DR. LAWLER REACHED THE CRASHED STINSON PLANE IN THE MACPHERSON RANGES BEFORE NOON TODAY, AND TREATED MR. PROUD WHOSE LEG WAS FRACTURED AND MR. BINSTEAD, WHO WAS SUFFERING SEVERELY FROM SHOCK…

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Jockeys Injured at Menangle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 2

TWO jockeys were slightly injured at the Richmond meeting held at Menangle yesterday. R. James was dislodged by the…

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Killed in Train Collision London

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 1

A COLLISION between a passenger train and a goods train in Langley (Bucks.) resulted in one person being killed and seven…

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Blasting Fatality. Evidence at Inquest. WOLLONGONG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 11

The Deputy Coroner (Mr. Musgrave), during an inquest to-day on the body of Mr. William Halberg, who was killed at Port Kembla on February 17, urged that adequate…

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Violent Storm. Damage in Melbourne. Three Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 15

A violent thunderstorm, which swept over the southern and eastern suburbs early this morning and disorganised the railway, telephone, and electricity services. Two houses…

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Man of Steel Succors Injured Superhuman Job by Doctor Beaudesert

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 3

OUTSTANDING among the rescuers is Dr. Noel B. Lawler, of Darlinghurst, Sydney, who fought through uncut scrub, and…

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Toll of the Road Killed on Scooter in Street Five-Years Old Boy In Collision With Car Two Men Die

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 1

TWO young men and a email boy were fatally injured last night in motor cradhes at Bondi, Bexley and Concord, Roads…

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Victim of Slippery-dip Accident [?] LITHGOW

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 10

Victim of a slippery-dip accident at Portland about fourteen months ago, the death took place at the Royal Price Alfred Hospital Sydney of…

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Accidents of the Week. Motor Cyclist Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 7

Alan Hunter, 18 years of age, of Mortdale, was riding a motor cycle along Railway Parade, Mortdale, on Tuesday when his cycle collided into…

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Injured in Forest

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--Answering a call to Olsen's Forest, near Martinsville, today, Lake Macquarie Ambulance found a relief worker, James…

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Drowned in River at Wallacia

Nepean Times · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 5

William Jeffries, of Petersham, who was staying at Muroobah guest house, Wallacia, while swimming in the river at the weir, yesterday,…

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Show Rider Fatally Injured

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 5

Critically injured in the ring at the Barraba Show on Tuesday, Mr. Harold Cameron, of Tamworth, who was one of the most outstanding Show…

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Ambulance in Collision Damages Against Driver

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 7

Judge Sheridan, in the District Court yesterday, gave reserved Judgment on the action in which Edward Cockman, a professional violinist, of…

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Boy Drowned in Dam. Bulli

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 6

An inquiry was held to-day concerning the drowning of George Leslie Taylor, 12, in the colliery dam at Scarborough, on February 6. Ernest Taylor, 14, said his brother (deceased)…

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English Team's Plans. Barnett's Injured Knee. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 13

C. J. Barnett, the successful English opening batsman, is to enter a private hospital in Melbourne to-morrow and will undergo an operation on a knee. A chipped bone has…

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Toll of the Road Women Injured in Car Mishaps

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 1

Two women were treated at Newcastle Hospital after [?] in which they were returning from Newcastle to their homes figured in a collision…

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Wheel Dropped Off 'Plane in Air Pilots Not Aware Landing Crash Injured One Machine Over

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 1

AS a 'plane rose from the Kingsford Smith aerodrome at Mascot shortly after 7 a.m. to-day, one of…

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Memory Fails Result of Injuries in Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 5

Heather Wynne, who was with John Edwin Munro (34) when the latter was fatally injured in a car smash at the foot of tapstone Hill on 13th…

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"Accidental" Boy Killed at Work

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the district coroner (Mr. G. R. Williams) on Monday after an inquest on Frederick Thomas Erwin (16),…

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