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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

1,673 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 84

Six Killed. Three R.a.a.f. Crashes. Accidents During Training

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 7

Six members of the Royal Australian Air Force—two officers and four leading aircraftmen—were killed in flying training accidents during…

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Man Drowned. Nyngan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 14

Alfred Smith, aged 20, of Moonagee Station, was drowned in the Cowal River yesterday. Another employee on the station, Clem Moxham, went to his…

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Driver Did Not Stop After Accident. Aged Woman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 11

Police are searching for the driver of & lorry which struck Mrs. Margaret Robinson, 89, of Holden Street, Ashfield, at the corner of her street and Liverpool Road yesterday…

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Billiardist Injured. London, Jan. 19. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 12

Tom Newman, the English billiards player, received concussion and was taken to hospital as a result of a motor car and bus collision. Melbourne Inman, another…

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River Thames Collision (Continued from last issue.)

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

The judgment of Mr. Justice Langton is given below in the case in which the Russian motor vessel Felix Dzerjinsky collided with craft in Woolwich Reach, River Thames, and contended that the Dutch vessel Brabant, lying at…

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Masie Mack Injured. Greyhound Match Affected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 14

The match race between the greyhounds Masle Mac and King Cloud, scheduled for February 1, at Casino, is unlikely to take place…

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Man Believed Drowned. Speed Boat and Launch Collide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 12

It is feared that Frank Light, 29, single, of Lower Fort Street, Miller's Point, was drowned off Bradley's Head last night when a speed-boat and a fishing launch collided…

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Railway Tunnel Collapses. Three Men Killed; Eleven Injured

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 6

Three men were killed and 11 others injured when the roof of a tunnel being excavated near Cox's Gap for the new Sandy Hollow-Maryvale…

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Man Drowned in Whirlpool. Fishing Line Tangled About Body. MOREE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 11

When a boy's fishing line was twisted round and round his body in a whirlpool, Keith George Boulton, 20, was drowned in the Mehi River at Moree,…

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Hope for Accident Victims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 13

Doctors think that Thomas Redford Bromley, 25, of Spit Road. Mosman, and Miss Daphne Bennett, of Huntley Point, who were seriously injured when a motor car swerved…

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[?] Into Tree Motoring Fatality

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

Between 10.30 and 11 p.m. on Saturday. a car driven in an easterly direction by Samuel Charles Bell (23), of Lurline Street, Katoomba, in…

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Fatality at Rope's Creek

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 4

A car driven by Lieutenant Chie, of Leura, who was accompanied by his wife and Fur children, and another car driven by John Hain, of Pacific…

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Saved From Drowning. Surfer Entangled in Line

The Propeller · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 4

At North Cronulla Beach last Sunday, Malcolm George, aged 17 years, of Forest Road, Bexley, was almost drowned during life-saving practise…

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"Driving Under Influence" Sequel to Collision

Liverpool News · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 4
Also in The Biz

Before Mr. Bliss. P.M., at Liverpool Police Court on Monday. William Benham was charged with having driven a motor car in Hume Highway, on…

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Woman Found Drowned in Orphan School Creek

The Biz · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

At 2 p.m. on Sunday last, James Chapman, of Canley Vale, was standing on the verandah of his home, behind tile the works, when he saw what appeared…

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Turf Notes. From Stable and Course. Lady Neith Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 13

The Ascot trainer, C. O'Rourke, withdrew his three-year-old filly Lady Neith from the Adrian Knox Stakes during the week owing to an injury. O'Rourke…

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Accident Proves Fatal

The Propeller · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 7

Gunner Leslie P. Thomas, of the. Survey Training Battery,, Warwick Farm, died yesterday' at the Royal South Sydney Hospital, as the result…

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Man, Hit by Sling, Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 8

Struck by a sling of iron bars being hoisted on to a ship last night, Edward John Thornton, 36, wharf laborer, fell into Jones Bay, Pyrmont, and was…

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Zionist Federation Press Release Immigrants Drowned in Vessel

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

Details have reached here from Istanbul concerning the foundering of the small antiquated Bulgarian vessel Salvador (100 tons) on the reefs of the…

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