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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Famed Violinist Badly Injured--hit by Truck New York

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 April 1941 · page 3

Famous violinist Fritz Kreisler, 66, was knocked down by a truck in Madison Avenue, New York, yesterday afternoon. He was rushed to hospital,…

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Boy Wounded. Accident With Rifle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1941 · page 11

Keith Cole, 17, of Imperial Avenue, Bondi, was accidentally shot through the neck when a companion was handling a pea-rifle which he did not know was loaded, at a camp at…

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Grenade Shatters Hand. Accident at Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1941 · page 6

The right hand of Harry Howard 28, fireworks manufactuer, of Malton Road, Epping was shattered by the premature explosion of a hand grenade during, a…

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Two Men Hurt in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 6

When a motor car and motor truck collided at the intersection of Hargrave and Elizabeth Streets. Paddington, yesterday, Arthur G. Purcell, of Cathedral…

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Injured Soldier May Take Action

The Sun · Wednesday 30 April 1941 · page 3

Possibility of Signaller George Moore, who was injured at Holdsworthy detention camp, taking action against the Federal Government was…

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Risks Life in Tunnel to Save Injured Man

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 April 1941 · page 5

At the risk of being hit by a train an Air Force trainee last night ran into a tunnel at Newtown station to rescue a man whose right leg had been severed…

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Cycle Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1941 · page 2

In a collision between his bicycle and a motor-lorry at the corner of Water-street and Cockthorpe-road on Saturday, Isaac Willis (54), of Auburn-road,…

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Cyclist Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 7

Walter Overend, aged 16 years, of Canterbury, suffered a fractured right leg and lacerated scalp when his bicycle and a car collided in Belmore…

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Accidents of the Week. Motor Cars in Collision

The Propeller · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 7

An accident occurred at the intersection of Forest and Dumbleton Roads, Penshurst, last Saturday morning, when two motor cars…

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Child Injured by Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 9

Terence Johnston, 4, of Edgecliff Esplanade, Seaforth, was knocked down by a car which was crossing a footpath to enter a garage yesterday…

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Woman Drowned in Bath. Fainting Fit Suspected

The Propeller · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 1

Margaret Peck, aged 31 years, wife of Mr. Arthur George Peck, dentist, of Forest Road, Hurstville, was found drowned in scalding water in the bath…

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Casualties in Britain. 29,000 KILLED; 40,000 Injured. London, April 30. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 7

The Minister for Health, Mr. Ernest Brown, announced in a speech last night that, up to March 31, 29,000 people were killed in Britain in air raids…

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Man Loses Memory. Accident on Rocks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 8

Police are trying to establish the identity of a man in Hornsby Hospital who can only remember that his name Harry. At 5 a.m. yesterday the man appeared at the…

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Motor Car Accident

The Propeller · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 3

Two persons were injured on a recent Sunday when two motor cars came into collision in Stoney Creek Road, Beverly Hills. Mr. B. Tyson, of…

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R.A.A.F. COLLISION. "No Negligence," Says Coroner. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1941 · page 10

The Canberra Coroner, Mr. Goodwin, to-day found that Corporal William Barry Ramsay, 36, was killed accidentally when the Air Force plane in which he was a passenger…

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Family Man Needs Accident Cover

The Sun · Friday 2 May 1941 · page 7

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8 Injured in Tram-Engine Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 May 1941 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Eight persons were injured when a tram containing 30 passengers and a railway engine collided at Tunnel Crossing,…

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Two Victims in Air Fatality

Truth · Sunday 4 May 1941 · page 20

TWO Air Force officers were killed when a single-engined plane crashed at Sackville Reach, near Windsor, yesterday, during blind-flying practice. THEY were:…

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3 Injured When Car Somersaults

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 May 1941 · page 8

WALCHA, Sunday.--Three youths were injured, two critically, when they were thrown today from a car on the main Oxley Highway, a mile from…

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Guildford Man Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 7

Struck by a car in Fairfield on Sunday night I. Hollier (56) of Cecil-street, Guildford, suffered a broken leg…

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