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Accidents, 1944

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Shunting Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 1

WILLIAM PETER ARENTZ, an acting guard, was killed during shunting operations on Saturday afternoon at Gilmore, near Tumut…

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Shunting Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 1

WILLIAM PETER ARENTZ, an acting guard, was killed during shunting operations on Saturday afternoon at Gilmore, near Tumut…

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Shunting Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

WILLIAM PETER ARENTZ, an acting guard, was killed during shunting operations on Saturday afternoon at Gilmore near Tumut…

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Shunting Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

WILLIAM PETER ARENTZ, an acting guard, was killed during shunting operations on Saturday afternoon at Gilmore near Tumut…

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Shunting Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 1

WILLIAM PETER ARENTZ, an acting guard, was killed during shunting operations on Saturday afternoon at Gilmore near Tumut…

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Boy Chemist Injured by Home-made Bomb

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 5

A 15-year-old chemist's assistant was injured yesterday when a home-made bomb exploded in Rosella Lane, East Sydney. He is John Bonett, of Palmer…

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Accidental Death of Man on Railway Line

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 7

DEATH of Lionel Thomas Luxton (36), whose body was found near the railway line' at Wallerawang on February 13,' was accidental, the…

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Accidental Death of Man on Railway Line

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 7

DEATH of Lionel Thomas Luxton (36), whose body was found near the railway line at Wallerawang on February 13, was accidental, the…

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Accidental Death on Railway Line

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 5

Death of Lionel Thomas Luxton (36), whose body was found near the railway line at Wallerawang on February 13, was accidental, the Lithgow District Coroner (Mr. D. M. Cregan) said at the inquest today…

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Soldier Injured on Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 6

Ronald J. Jarvey, soldier, of Empire Avenue, Concord, was found lying on the railway line near the southern end of the island platform at Redfern[?]…

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Cordale injured in track trial

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1944 · page 10

Cordale, who would have been backed against Moorland in the Berala Handicap yesterday, was a course…

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Accidental Death of Journalist

Truth · Sunday 5 March 1944 · page 21

IN lonely Bowenfels cemetery. A where the tall pines are eternal sentinels, a mound of earth indicates the resting place of Lionel…

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Cyclist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 7

Kenneth Lee, 15, of Haigh Avenue, French's Forest, lost control of a bicycle he was riding along Pittwater Road, Deewhy, yesterday. The…

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Man Found Drowned In Dock

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 2

The body of a workman was recovered today from 60 feet of water in the Sydney graving dock, after…

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Drowned When Hit by Timber

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

STRUCK by a piece of timber and knocked into the harbor while working on a Sydney wharf today, Jack Summers (45), was drowned…

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Drowned When Hit by Timber

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

STRUCK by a piece of timber and knocked into the harbor while working on a Sydney wharf today, Jack Summers (45), was drowned…

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Drowned When Hit by Timber

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

STRUCK by a piece of timber and knocked into the harbor while working on a Sydney wharf today, Jack Summers (45), was drowned…

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Woman Fatally Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

ANNE STEGGA (78), View Street, woollahra, was fatally injured yesterday when struck by a tram at the intersection of Oxford and…

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Woman Fatally Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

ANNE STEGGA (78), View Street, Woollahra, was fatally injured yesterday when struck by a tram at the intersection of Oxford and…

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Woman Fatally Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

ANNE STEGGA (78), View Street, Woollahra, was fatally injured yesterday when struck by a tram at the intersection of Oxford and…

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