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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Cleaner Injured in Car Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 14

John Desmond, 65, cleaner, of Chamberlain Avenue, Rose Bay, received a fractured right thigh and abrasions to the head when he was hit by a car…

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Woman Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 2

People boarding a train at Granville station yesterday morning prevented Mrs. Alice Plummer, of Beresford Road, Pendle Hill, from alighting…

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Injured in Tram Fall

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 14

MRS. BEATRICE BLAKE (55), May St., Leichhardt, injured her head and fractured her left shoulder when she fell from a tram in Norton St.,…

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1 Killed, 5 Injured In Car-Bus Smash

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 5

A soldier was killed and two girls and a civilian were critically injured when a car smashed into a bus near Prospect last night. Another soldier and a civilian were slightly injured…

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Soldier Killed, Five Others Injured Car Crashes Into Bus Driver Charged with Manslaughter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 1

When a motor car crashed into a stationary bus on the Western Road, Pendle Hill, shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday, a soldier was killed…

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Child Saved From Drowning

The Biz · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 2

John Mettau (2), of Togll Street, Canlev Vule, was saved from drowning in 12 feet of water in Prospect Creels Carraman, yesterday, by Thomas Webbe,…

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Killed in Air Accident

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 6

Sergeant Raymond Johnston, RAAF (18). elder son of Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Johnston, of Parramatta, who was recently Killed as…

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Infant Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 4

Beverley Patricia Knock, 14½ months, was drowned in a drum containing about 14 inches of water at her home in Benalong Road,…

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Child 4 Drowned

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

A FOUR-YEARS-OLD girl was drowned when she fell into a bath half-filled with water at her home in Pine St., Randwick, today…

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Child Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 4

Pam Sullivan, 4. of Pine Street, Randwick, was drowned in a bath at her home. Police were told that the child had suffered from paralysis, and…

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Vigil at Injured Boxer's Bedside

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 5

Eight relatives and friends of middleweight boxer Roy Thurgar, 27, spent last night at Lewisham Hospital waiting for him to regain consciousness. Thurgar was injured seriously…

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Paralysed 4-Year-old Girl Drowned in Bath

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 4

A paralysed four-year-old girl drowned in her both of Randwick yesterday. She was Pamela Molly Sullivan, of Pine Street, Randwick…

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Dog, reprieved from drowning bucket, wins H. Park race

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 11

A dog whose owner unsuccessfully tried to drown her five times wop the first division of the Tramway Stake at Harold…

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Escaped drowning 4 times to land big coup in dog race

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 17

OWNER of Doreen's Mite, who landed a confident betting coup in the First Tramway Stake at Harold Park yesterday, tried to drown the dog as a puppy…

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Sixty feet under the sea Submarine collision LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 3

THE British submarine Seraph collided with a German U-boat 60ft. under the sea…

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Injured woman thinks of pet Faces fire to save dog

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 5

THOUGH severely burned when a room heater exploded in her face, a woman last night returned to the…

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Car finished up on the verandah Car runs amok, hits house after collision

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 5

ONE of two cars which collided in Crystalstreet, Petersham, last night, ran amok. It veered to the opposite side of the road, narrowly missed a pole, struck a fence, then shot back across…

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Arteries Severed in Freak Accidents

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 5

TWO men were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital last night with blood pouring from arteries severed in unusual circumtstances. They were Pte. Cecil Love, who…

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Dread fire-bomb found by accident

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 April 1945 · page 36

NEW YORK, Sat. -- The gasoline jelly used in the devastating fire-bomb raids on Japanese cities was…

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Experimenter Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 4

An explosion occurred while Francis Reeves, 40, a fitter, of Breillat Street, Annandale, was experimenting with an acetylene…

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