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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Four Drowned in British Flying Boat Crash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--The British Overseas Airways flying boat Cassiopeia crashed while taking off on Monday from a Dutch East Indies…

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Four Drowned in British Flying Boat Crash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--The British Overseas Airways flying boat Cassiopeia crashed while taking off on Monday from a Dutch East Indies…

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Four Drowned in British Flying Boat Crash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--The British Overseas Airways flying boat Cassiopeia crashed while taking off on Monday from a Dutch East Indies…

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Four Drowned in British Flying Boat Crash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--The British Overseas Airways flying boat Cassiopeia crashed while taking off on Monday from a Dutch East Indies…

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Accident in Train

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 1

Mr Herbert Beaver, of 40 Woodriff street, [?]enrith, suffered a fractured]eft arm, injury to his left hip, and shock, and Mr George Upton, of…

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Horse's Injured Foot

The Land · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 9

"M.C.": I have a draught horse which a lew months ago evidently trod on a sharp obstruction and pot a small punctured wound in the sole…

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Two Injured In 6-Day Bike Crush

The Sun · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 8

Six-day cyclists R. Cook and W. Guyatt were injured in a sensational crash at the…

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Cook Injured, Guyatt Fined in Six-day Race

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 16

Randall Cook broke the second finger on his left hand and Billy Guyatt was fined £1 as a result of a sensational fall at the Sports Arena Six Day race this afternoon. GUYATT and Cook fell on the far…

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Cook Injured, Guyatt Fined in Six-day Race

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 16

Randall Cook broke the second finger on his left hand and Billy Guyatt was fined £7 as a result of a sensational fall at the Sports Arena Six Day race this afternoon. CUYATT and Cook fell on the far…

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Cook Injured, Guyatt Fined in Six-day Race

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 16

Randall Cook broke the second linger in his left hand and Billy Guyatt was lined £1 as a result ol a sensational tall at the Sports Arena Six Day race this afternoon. GUYATT and Cook fell on the far…

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Cook Injured, Guyatt Fined in Six-day Race

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 16

Randall Cook broke the second finger on his left hand and Billy Guyatt was fined £1 as a result of a sensational fall at the Sports Arena Six Day race this afternoon. GUYATT and Cook fell on the far…

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Runner Killed Sgt. Backhouse in Air Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Sergeant, Gerald lan Backhouse, R.A.A.F., aged 28 years, champion mile runner of Australia,…

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Two Riders Injured Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 6

Trainer R. Sinclair had an unusual experience at Moonee Valley to-day when two jockeys he engaged…

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Browser Injured on Fallen Hurdle

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1942 · page 9

MOONEE VALLEY, Saturday. -- "Browser won't race again for some time," said trainer-rider Ron Sweetnam after today's Moonee Valley…

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Air Raid Scare Accidental Blackout at Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 7

When a failure in electricity supply last night blacked-out Parramatta and parts of Granville, Guildford, and Merrylands, many people thought that…

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Rumanian Found Drowned Police Save Body From Shark

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 15

Christo Joanades, 44, a Rumanian, either fell or jumped from the rocks into the sea at Clovelly yesterday, and was…

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Saved From Drowning

The Propeller · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 6

Peter Grainger, aged ten years, of Gloucester Road, Hurstville, was saved from drowning. in Manly Harbour Pool yesterday by Mrs. Thelma Hart,…

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Woman Rescues Drowning Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 5

Diving fully clothed into Manly Harbor Pool yesterday, Mrs. Thelma Hart grasped a drowning boy from the bottom and, carrying him over her…

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River Drowning Visiting Young Woman

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 1

ON many occasions in district history Nepean River has been the scene of a drowning fatality, and on Saturday it claimed yet…

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Taxi-driver Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 6

When a tram and a taxi-cab. collided at Alexandria last Sunday a woman was killed and three persons were injured. The driver of toe taxi, Thomas…

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