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Accidents, 1941

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Injured Jockey Is Improving Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 39

Jockey A. Dewhurst. who suffered severe injuries in a race fall at Ascot yesterday, was reported to-day to have spent a comfortable night in…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Hurt In Collision With Horse

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 7

WHEN his motor-cycle collided TV with a horse that bolted with a milk-cart in Parramatta Road, Asnfield this morning Peter Taylor (19)…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Hurt In Collision With Horse

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 7

WHEN his motor-cycle collided with a horse that bolted with a milk-cart in Parramatta Road, Ashfield this morning, Peter Taylor (19),…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Hurt In Collision With Horse

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 7

WHEN his motor-cycle collided with a horse that bolted with a milk-cart in Parramatta Road, Ashfield, this morning, Peter Taylor (19)…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Hurt In Collision With Horse

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 7

WHEN his motor-cycle collided with a horse that bolted with a milk-cart in Parramatta Road, Ashfield this morning, Peter Taylor (19)…

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Jockey Dewhurst Injured. Fail at Ascot (Vic.). MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 10

Catapulted high into the air when his mount. Midas. apparently clipped the heels of a horse in front and fell. after going a furlong and a half in the second…

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Accident at Knapsack Bridge

Nepean Times · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 1

About 9.15 p.m. on Tuesday, a motor car driven by Allan E. Tonkin (19), of 13 Alton Avenue, Concord, a member of the Air Force, on leave from…

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Injured Rider's Improvement Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 13

Further improvement was reported to-day in the condition of A. Dewhurst who is in hospital as the result of the injuries he suffered in…

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News Brevities From Far and Near Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 9

THREE youths were injured in a collision between two motor cycles at the intersection of Burwood Road and Lakemba Street, Belmore,…

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News Brevities From Far and Near Injured in Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 9

THREE youths were injured in a collision between two motor cycles at the intersection of Burwood Road and Lakemba Street, Belmore,…

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News Brevities From Far and Near Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 9

THREE youths were injured in a collision between two motor cycles at the intersection of Burwood Road and Lakemba Street, Belmore,…

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News Brevities From Far and Near Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 9

THREE youths were injured in a collision between two motor cycles at the intersection of Burwood Road and Lakemba Street, Belmore,…

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Dewhurst's Spine Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- The X-ray examination of jockey Arthur Dewhurst, who was injured in a fall at Ascot last…

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Dewhurst's Spine Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The X-ray examination of jockey Arthur Dewhurst, who was injured in a fall at Ascot last…

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Dewhurst's Spine Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The X-ray examination of jockey Arthur Dewhurst, who was injured in a fall at Ascot last…

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Dewhurst's Spine Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The X-ray examination of jockey Arthur Dewhurst, who was injured in a fall at Ascot last…

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One Killed In Plane Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Flying-Officer B. G. Jones, of Hobart, was killed today when two training planes collided as they were taking off at Western…

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Two Killed; Seven Injured. Lorry Skids and Overturns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 14

Thomas Chapman, 38, of Lydbrook Street, Wentworthville, and George Gray, of Lansdowne Street, Parramatta, were killed and seven other men were injured last night when…

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Nazi Bombs on Dublin; Heavy Toll Five dead and 100 injured so far reported in worst raid yet on neutral Eire LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 1

German bombers carried out a heavy raid on Dublin, capital of neutral Eire, at 1 a.m. to-day. Bombs started big fires in various parts of…

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Injured Boy, 5, Risks Drowning For Brother

The Sun · Sunday 1 June 1941 · page 2

A painful broken arm did not deter a five-year-old boy, Tommy O'Brien, from jumping into the deep waters of a lake in Centennial Park in an effort to save his two-year-old brother Johnny…

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