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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Woman Injured in Street

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 17

MRS. EMMA McDUGGAN (58), Taylor St., Darlinghurst, received a probable fractured skull and left leg when struck by a truck in…

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Woman Injured by Car

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 2

Mrs. M. Facey (58) of Merrylands Road, Merrylands was knocked down by a car near her home on Friday night and is in Parramatta District Hospital…

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Four R.n. Men Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 4

Four naval men were injured when a Royal Navy lorry mounted the footpath and crashed into shop premises in Chapel Road. Bankstown, last…

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Child Fatally Injured in Riding Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE, Thursday. --While galloping home from the Mt. Crosby School to his home at Kholo yesterday afternoon. Donald George…

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Girl Injured by Tram

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 10

VERONICA BROMWICK (19), of Telopea St., Redfern, was seriously injured when she was knocked down by a tram outside her home…

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Jeep Accident Driver Fined

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 1

Cases arising out of an accident with a military jeep in Railway Parade, St. Marys, on May 19 came before Mr R. Soiling, S.M., at Windsor…

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2 Killed, 5 Hurt In Traffic Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 7

A six-year-old girl and a man were killed and two boys and three men were injured in traffic accidents last night…

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Coal Fall Fatality

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 21

Resuming after Yesterday's stoppage, the northern mine, Aberdare, went out of production early today when a miner…

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Runaway Van Tears Along Footpath Thirty Injured In City Crowd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 4

Thirty pedestrians were injured, five seriously, when a motor panel van, out of control, jumped the kerb and tore through the lunch-hour crowd in George Street, between Market and King Streets, yesterday…

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Electric Train Fatality

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 June 1945 · page 2

FLIGHT-SGT. CYRIL MITCHELL (40) was killed near Erskineville station last night. He is believed to have been struck by an electric…

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Woman Injured by Car

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 June 1945 · page 4

EVELYN EMILY ELIZA VANDER-PUMP (72). Pacific Highway, Hornsby, suffered a probable fractured skull when she was knocked…

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Injured Foot No Handicap

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 July 1945 · page 26

Eastern Suburbs Australian Rules full forward played yesterday with a piece of plate glass embedded in his right…

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Young ex-soldier saves drowning man from rough surf at Maroubra

The Sun · Sunday 1 July 1945 · page 5

SWEPT off a rock and carried out to sea at Maroubra yesterday afternoon, a man was saved from drowning by a young, recently discharged soldier. The rescued man, Eric Wonders, 50, motor-trimmer, of Malabar-road,…

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Boy Injured by Bomb

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 July 1945 · page 4

A boy who managed to get past guards into an R.A.F. aerodrome near Camden yesterday found a pile of parachute flare…

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Man Did Not Know He Was Injured

The Sun · Monday 2 July 1945 · page 3

Collapsing at his work in Eveleigh workshops today, John Hill, 63, electrician of Goodhope-street. Paddington, was taken to…

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Twin Boys Drowned

The Sun · Tuesday 3 July 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Twin brothers, William Francis Eccles and Albert Michael Eccles, aged 12, were drowned yesterday…

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Late News (Twins Drowned in Quarry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Police and firemen late to-night recovered from a quany at Preston the body of William Francis…

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Child Killed, 2 Hurt In Street Accidents

The Sun · Tuesday 3 July 1945 · page 3

A child was killed and two others were seriously injured in road accidents yesterday and last night. Watched by his mother. Lindsay Francis, 5 of Walker-street,…

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Motorist Did Stop After Fatal Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 July 1945 · page 10

A report published on June 21 stated that Mrs. Lorna McGrath had been the victim, of a hit-run motorist and had died iii Newcastle Hospital…

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Manly Ferries Near Collision

The Sun · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 3

There were moments of alarm on the Manly ferry steamers Barragoola and Dee Why today, when collision was averted only…

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