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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

1,350 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 68

Drowned at Malaya

The Biz · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

P[?] Gerald Chapman, of Smithfield previously reported missing, is now reported drowned by enemy action, on February 9, 1942, at Malaya…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, was injured at Randwick this morning. While exercising the Manitoba…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, was injured at Randwick this morning. While exercising the Manitoba…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, was injured at Randwick this morning. While exercising the Manitoba…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, was injured at Randwick this morning. While exercising the Manitoba…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, was injured at Randwick this morning. While exercising the…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

"PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, A was injured at. Randwick this morning. While exercising the…

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Apprentice Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 12

PROMISING apprentice, T. Clarke, A was injured at Randwick this morning. While exercising the Manitoba-…

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Tram Collision at Balmain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

The smashed driver's cabin on one of the two trams which collided in Darling Street, near The Avenue, Balmain, last night. Mr. Peter Legdin, a driver, was admitted to hospital with a broken leg…

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Woman Driver Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

WHEN a car driven by Mrs. P. Salmon (56), of Belgenny Plats, Taylor Square, collided with a lorry at the corner of Burton and Bourke…

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Woman Driver Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

WHEN a car driven by Mrs. F. Salmon (56), of Belgenny Flats, Taylor Square, collided with a lorry at the corner of Burton and Bourke…

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Woman Driver Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

WHEN a car driven by Mrs. P. Salmon (56), of Belgenny Plats, Taylor Square, collided with a lorry at the corner of Burton and Bourke…

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Man Killed, Girl Injured

The Biz · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 3

John Thomas Jones (57), nightwatch-man, of Clive Street, Granville, was fatally injured when his bicycle and a lorry collided at the corner of Platform St…

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Two Trams Collide; 4 Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 7

A from driver, conductor, and two passengers were injured in a tram smash at Darling Street,…

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Trams Collide at Balmain Four Persons Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

Four people were injured when a tram ran into the rear of another tram in Darling Street, Balmain East, near The…

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Accident From Tyre Blow-Out

Nepean Times · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 4

When a car driven in a westerly direction by William Robinson, of 66 Warner's Avenue, Bondi, on the Western Road, Colyton, approached Rope's…

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Apprentice Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 6

T. Clarke, apprentice rider, had his left leg bruised when thrown from a yearling on the sand track at Randwick yesterday morning. After…

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Bus Damaged in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 3

This Manly-Narrabeen bus collided with a military truck at Collaroy yesterday afternoon, but none of the 70 school children and 10 adults on the bus were hurt. John Dwyer, who was standing just inside the bus, is shown examining the damage…

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60 Schoolchildren in Bus-truck Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 5

Sixty children and 10 adults were badly shaken yesterday when a military truck collided with the double-decker bus in which they were travelling. The children were pupils of…

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Man in Runaway Lorry Injured

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 2

A man was injured and two lorries badly damaged in a collision in Curlewis St., Bondi, last night…

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