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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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Tahmoor Injured After Final Trial To Miss Challenge 'Dead Money' for Books

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 12

AFTER executing his final trial at Randwick this morning Tahmoor, prominent candidate for the £1000 Challenge Stakes to be run next Saturday, was frightened by a…

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Tahmoor Injured After Final Trial To Miss Challenge 'Dead Money' for Books

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 12

AFTER executing his final trial at Randwick this morning Tahmoor, prominent candidate for the £1000 Challenge Stakes to be run next Saturday, was frightened by a…

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Tahmoor Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 7

Tahmoor sustained injuries at Randwick yesterday, which will prevent his starting in the A.J.C. Challenge Stakes to-morrow. He collided…

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Tahmoor, Injured, Out of Challenge

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 11

Frightened by a bird which flew under his nose, Tahmoor collided with a fence after exercises at Randwick yesterday. He struck his forearm and was so…

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15 Dead in Smash at Crossing Train Wrecks Bus Near Hawkesbury River Five Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

Fifteen people, including six children, are dead and five others are in hospital, as a result of a collision between the Kempsey mail train and a bus at a level crossing near the Hawkesbury River station yesterday…

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Detective's Son Dies After Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 2

ROBERT EVERETT DEVONPORT (4), of Wollongong, who was hit by a bus at the corner of Tunstall Avenue and Gardiner's Road,…

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Detective's Son Dies After Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 2

ROBERT EVERETT DEVONPORT (4), of Wollongong, who was hit by a bus at the corner of Tunstall Avenue and Gardiner's Road…

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Complete Short Story Out-matched Drowning men clutch at straws. But the Secret Service Agent in an equally lough spot grasped at a matchbox

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 2

THE cellars were fitted with electric light and Carringford was glad of the…

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Stop Press Boy Drowned Quarry

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 12

A woman, who declined to give her name to the police, dived into a quarry in Roberts Avenue, Mortdale, this afternoon in a vain…

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Stop Press Boy Drowned in Quarry

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 12

A Woman, who declined to give her name to the police dived into a quality in Roberts' Avenue, Mortdale, this afternoon in a vain…

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Orphans Injured by Exploding Shell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Sunday.— Several children from an orphanage escaped death when a shell with which they were playing exploded. Five were…

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Boy Drowned En Quarry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

A young woman dived fully clothed into Hannon's quarry. Robarts Avenue, Mortdale, yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue from drowning…

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Court-Martial Today Off Beach Accident

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 5

SALE, Tuesday.--The official sequel to the Boxing Day accident at Seaspray, on Victoria's Ninety-mile Beach, when a girl and ah elderly man were maimed by the towing wire of a target which had come adrift from an R.A.A.F. aircraft…

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Airman On Beach Accident Charge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

SALE, Tuesday.--Flight-Sergeant Lindsay Pynor White, pilot of a Fairey Battle aircraft which trailed a steel cable across Seaspray, on Victoria's 90-mile Beach on December 27, maiming an elderly man and a girl, was tried by R.A.A.F…

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Airman On Beach Accident Charge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

SALE, Tuesday.--Flight-Sergeant Lindsay Pynor White, pilot of a Fairey Battle aircraft which trailed a steel cable across Seaspray, on Victoria's 90-mile Beach on December 27, maiming an elderly man and a girl, was tried by R.A.A.F…

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Airman On Beach Accident Charge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

SALE, Tuesday.--Flight-Sergeant Lindsay Pynor White, pilot of a Fairey Battle aircraft which trailed a steel cable across Seaspray, on Victoria's 90-mile Beach on December 27, maiming an elderly man and a girl, was tried by R.A.A.F…

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Court-Martiat Today On Beach Accident

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

SALE, Tuesday.--The official sequel to the Boxing Day accident at Seaspray, on Victoria's Ninety-mile Beach, when a girl and an elderly man were maimed by the towing wire of a target which had come adrift from an R.A.A.F. aifcraft…

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Court-Martial Today On Beach Accident

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 5

SALE, Tuesday.--The official sequel to the Boxing Day accident at Seaspray, on Victoria's Ninety-mile Beach, when a girl and an elderly man were maimed by the towing wire of a target which had come adrift from an R.A.A.F. aircraft…

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Beach Accident Inquiry R.A.A.F. Pilot at Court-Martial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Flight-Sergeant Lindsay White, R.A.A.F. pilot, was charged at a court-martial in Sale to-day…

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Airman Acquitted in Beach Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 7

SALE, Wednesday. -- Flight-Sergeant Lindsay Pynor White was acquitted by R.A.A. F. court-martial at Sale today on a charge of having flown…

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