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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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"Accident Ended Skill At Bridge"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 7

Miss Nance Fallon, 61, nurse and bridge teacher, of Bellevue Hill, said in the Supreme Court yesterday that since an…

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Boy Shot Dead Accidentally

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 1

GYMPIE, Friday.--A live shell left in a rifle at a shooting gallery today by a customer, was responsible for the death of Ray Lane, 16, grocer's…

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Two Injured by Car

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 2

Dennis Murphy (70), a sheep-breeder from Burrowa, and his wife, Mary Murphy (65), were seriously injured last night, when they were…

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Critically Injured Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 9

With both hands mutilated, and his chest, legs and face burned. Victor Morris, 11, was rushed to hospital to-day after a detonator had…

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Played While Mother Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Mrs. Elsie May Armstrong, 27, of Dendy Street, Middle Brighton, was drowned at Lome today while her two children, aged…

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Woman Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 9

Within sight of her husband Mrs. Elsie May Armstrong, 27, of Middle Brighton, was drowned while swimming at Lorne to-day…

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Three Drowned in N.Z. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 9

An air trainee and two women were drowned when the car in which they were returning from a cabaret crashed into the Avon River, Christchurch, early this morning. A…

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Man, 78, Charged After Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A man aged 73 has been charged with having driven a car while under the influence of liquor…

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Boys Wounded In Shooting Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

PERTH, Sunday.--Two ambulances arrived together at Perth Hospital today with boy victims of shooting accidents at places 50 miles apart…

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Fires in Suburbs. Man Injured at Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 10

Firemen received several calls to outbreaks in the suburbs yesterday. A spark from a grinding machine is believed to have started a fire at the works of…

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Lindrum Drive Touch Not Impaired By Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 16

A man who has just recovered from a broken shoulder and a fractured skull set a six-ball billiards record at…

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Councillor Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 3

Councillor Harry Moore, of Blacktown Council, who recently had the misfortune to break an arm while at work, is reported to be progressing…

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Riding Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 1

Hilary Burke (40), of Harris-street, Harris Park, suffered injuries to the ankle and right elbow when a horse he was riding in Harris-street stumbled…

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Head-on Collision

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1

On Sunday night, March 9, a car, owned and driven by Mathew Nicholson, of 41 Hume Street, Crows Nest and one driven by Eric Tithers, of…

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Due to Speed Coroner on Triple Fatality "Negligent Driving"

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 7

TWO young men and a young woman received [?] injuries when a car [?] with a tree at a curve on the [?] Road at…

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Plane Crash Airmen Perish Cause of Accident Undetermined

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1

"I AM unable to say what caused the crash, and would not say that any fault was due to the pilot whilst the machine was under his…

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Cycle Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 2

Master Charles Oxenham (12), of Cam Street, Cambridge Park, met with an accident in High Street, Penrith, on Tuesday afternoon…

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Minister in Accident Car and Lorry Collide

Liverpool News · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 2

The pleasure of Rev. F. H. Meyer's introduction to Liverpool was somewhat marred on Monday night, at 7.50 p.m., when his car, in which he was travelling…

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Minister in Accident Car and Lorry Collider

The Biz · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 2

The pleasure of Rev. F. H. Meyer's introduction to Liverpool was somewhat marred on Monday night, at 7.50 p.m.. when his car in which he was travelling…

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Three Men Hurt. Car in Double Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 6

Three young men were seriously injured just before midnight last night when a single-seated car, after colliding with another car and a taxi-cab in…

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