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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

1,584 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 80

Fatal Lorry Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 11

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--His neck broken when a motor lorry overturned between Stroud and Bulahdelah on Saturday afternoon…

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Accident to Ferry

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 4

Passengers aboard the Manly ferry Curl Curl were transferred to another ferry after the Curl Curl fouled an object in the…

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Fatal Lorry Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--His neck broken when a motor lorry overturned between Stroud and Bulahdelah on Saturday afternoon,…

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Fatal Lorry Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--His neck broken when a motor lorry overturned between Stroud and Bulahdelah on Saturday afternoon,…

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Accident to Ferry

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 4

Passengers aboard the Manly ferry Curl Curl were transferred to another ferry after the Curl Curl fouled an object in the…

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Injured In City Tunnel

The Sun · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 3

Severely Injured, a man who gave his name as Mathew Carolan, was found in the tunnel at the Quay end of the St. James…

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Roy Saved From Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 11

Clive Coleman. 7. of Wollongong Road, Arncliffe, was saved from drowning in Fairlight Pool, Manly, yesterday…

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R. J. Parsons Slightly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 10

The Jockey, R. J. Parsons, was slignt[?]lured yesterday when a car he was driving and a bus collided at Masect. He was treated at South Sydney Hospital and allowed [?]…

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Saved From Drowning

The Propeller · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 2

Clive Coleman, aged seven years, of Wollongong Road, Arncliffe, was saved from drowning in Fairlight Pool, Manly, on Tuesday. When Thomas…

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Haripur Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 7

Haripur, who was heavily backed in the Paddington Handicap at Randwick last Saturday and finished near the rear of the field, is not likely to race again for some time. He…

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Fatality at Closed Road

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 1

About 10.45 p.m. on Saturday Rex Austin Newell (17), a soldier, was riding a motor cycle in an easterly direction along the section of High Street,…

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Cycle and Car Fatal Collision

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 1

A motor cycle driven by Corporal Colin Vincent McGrath (20), a resident of South Grafton, and a car driven by James Vogt, of Epping (at…

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14 Injured When Cylinder Explodes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 7

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--When an acetylene gas cylinder on a motor truck travelling beside an outward bound tram to Balmoral exploded at East…

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Chlorine Gas Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 7

Many people were treated at Prince Alfred Hospital after a cylinder containing chlorine gas was accidentally broken at Chippendale early yesterday morning. Left: Bobby Weston, who lives only a few houses away from where the cylinder was…

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Series of Plane Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 5

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (A.A.P.).— Officials of Pan-American and Grace Airways have announced at Buenos Aires (Argentina) that a full…

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Accident in Kingsway

The Observer · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

On Saturday last, 23rd instant about 11.30 p.m., Mrs. Johnson, of Tricket Street, Cronulla, was knocked down by a motor car in Kingsway,…

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Jap General Was Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 2

A special release from General MacArthur's Headquarters today confirms the report published in the communique of…

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Jap General Was Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 2

A special release from General MacArthur's Headquarters today confirms the report published in the communique of…

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Jap General Was Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 2

A special release from General MacArthur's Headquarters today confirms the report published in the communique of…

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Woman M.p. Injured in Glider Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--During a demonstration for M.P.s at Salisbury plain, the Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Ministry of Home…

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