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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Two Men Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 5

TWO men were admitted to hospital as the result of accidents in the metropolitan area late yesterday. Donald Christian (21), Tressider…

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R.a.a.f. Men Accidentally Drank Their Bath Water

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 7

R.A.A.F. men based on Kirrawina Island in the Trobriand Group, accidentally drank their own bath water for about two weeks. SERGT. JACK CUMMINS, of the…

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Two Men Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 5

TWO men were admitted to hospital as the result of accidents in the metropolitan area late yesterday. Donald Christian (21), Tressider…

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Two Men Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 5

TWO men were, admitted to hospital as the result of accidents in the metropolitan area late yesterday. Donald Christian (21), Tressider…

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Driver Injured in Speedway Crash

The Sun · Sunday 11 February 1945 · page 6

KEVIN GALLAGHER was treated at Sydney Hospital for a badly-bruised wrist and shoulder after two cars had collided during the six-lap open speedcar race at the Sports Ground yesterday…

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Leg Amputated After Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 4

A young man had his right leg amputated at Lewisham Hospital yesterday after he had fallen under a tram while trying to…

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Woman Drowned in Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 1

Police early this morning were trying to identify the body of a woman who fell from a Manly ferry off Kirribilli Point about midnight…

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Injured Speed Driver to Race

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 10

Kev Gallaher, midget and sidecar expert, did not break an arm, as at first thought, in a crash at the Sports Ground last…

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Salvage After Collision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 1

Judgment was delivered in the British Admiralty Court recently in an action for salvage remuneration brought by the France,…

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Collision in River Thames

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 1

In the British Admiralty Court recently judgment was given in an appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice Pilcher in the Admiralty Division, holding the steamship Nutfield, of London (owner Mr. E. T. Lindley), alone to blame for a…

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Troop Train in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.— A troop train struck a stationary goods train at Coomandook siding, 95 miles south-east of…

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Acquitted of Manslaughter Valley Heights Road Fatality

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 1

AFTER a lengthly hearing, Douglas Baxter [?]obison was acquitted of a charge of manslaughter at Parramatta Quarter Sessions…

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Skin Graft Operation on Boy Injured by Tram

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

JOCK SMITH (11), Mill St., Hurlstone Park, who suffered extensive injuries to the leg when he slipped under a tram yesterday, returning…

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Skin Graft Operation on Boy Injured by Tram

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

JOCK SMITH (11), Mill St., Hurlstone Park, who suffered extensive injuries to the leg when he slipped under a tram yesterday, returning…

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10 Injured in Tram Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Ten passengers were injured--seven being taken to St. Vincent's Hospital--when three trams were involved in an unusual accident in Nelson Rd., Edgecliff, at 8.15 this morning…

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10 Injured in Tram Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Ten passengers were injured--seven being taken to St. Vincent's Hospital--when three trams were involved in an unusual accident in Nelson Rd., Edgecliff, at 8.15 this morning…

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Triple Collision at North Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

The car in which two Servicewomen were injured, one seriously, at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Walker Street, North Sydney, last night. A 3-ton lorry collided with the car, and a few moments later a van collided with…

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Rebuff Led To Fatality, Court Told

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday. --Annoyed because he rebuffed her advances, the girl with whom he had spent nearly a week in…

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