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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

1,478 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 74

Armidale Boy Shot Dead Accidentally

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 July 1945 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Monday.--While out shooting rabbits on Saturday, Ted O'Brien (13), son of Mr. and Mrs E. O'Brien, of Armidale, was…

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Hand Injured During Operation; £202 Award

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.--Because her left hand had been jammed and injured in a hospital operating table, Mrs. Ruby Myrtle Oston Harrison, of Adelaide, was awarded £202 damages in the Adelaide Local…

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Many Children Killed, Injured On Roads

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 5

Ninety-four school children under 15 were killed and 1396 injured in road accidents in New South Wales in the 15 months to the end of March. The Commissioner for Road…

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Baby Drowned in Tub Merrylands Mother Had Seizure

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 2

A baby girl, seven weeks old, was drowned in a tub on July 3, when her mother who was bathing her, had a seizure and collapsed into a chair…

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A Strange Collision. British Craft Hits U-boat 60 Feet Below The Surface

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 2

While manoeuvring to carry out a submerged attack on a German U-boat, which also was diving, the submarine H.M.S…

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Two Killed In Train Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 14

Two men were killed by trains yesterday, another collapsed and died in a train at North Sydney, and a fourth received serious…

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Tram Collision in City

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 5

When two trams collided in Castlereagh Street, between Bathurst and Park Streets, yesterday afternoon, a woman suffered cuts to the lip and…

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Fatality on South Creek Bridge

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 2

Mr James Brell (51), of Western Road, St. Marys, received fatal injury when struck by a car travelling in the opposite direction, on South Creek…

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Four Injured in City Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 3

Four persons were injured when a La Perouse-bound tram and a lorry collided in Elizabeth St., City, this afternoon…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Man Killed, Woman Injured by Bullets

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 28

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Guiseppe Anfuso, 46, Sicilian farmer, also known as George Brown, was fatally shot on a tobacco farm at…

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Four Injured In Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 11

A tram conductor and three passengers were injured yesterday when a utility truck skidded and struck a tram in Elizabeth Street, City…

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Injured Player

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 20

AN INCIDENT in the second cricket "test" played at Sheffield (Eng.) shows S. Sismey receiving attention after sustaining…

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Saints Fail Defeat by North Sydney Ends St. George Premiership Chances. Brown, Again Injured, Hay Not Play Again This Season. North's Won 29 Scrums to 18. Reserve Grade Gave Another Great Display. Thirds again defeated

The St George Call · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 4

Falling to produce Its successful form "of previous weeks, St. George first grade rugby league team was outplayed and defeated by North Sydney last Saturday, and has now lost whatever slender chance it had of reaching the premiership semi-finals. Four matches remain to be played but St George is…

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Union Player Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 8

GATHERING a loose ball in the third grade Union match between Randwick and Wests at Coogee Oval this afternoon Randwick winger Alf…

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Seven Injured in Army Truck Crash

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 2

INNISFAIL, Saturday. -- When travelling from Innisfail to Millaa Millaa last night, a military truck failed to negotiate a bend about 11…

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Special Cars for War Injured Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 13.—Ford cars are to be provided, free of cost, with special equipment, to permit disabled Servicemen to…

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Drowned Chinese found in Yarra MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 15 July 1945 · page 2

Police have established the identity of a Chinese whose body was found in the Yarra at South Wharf this afternoon, but they…

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Five injured when lorry strikes tram

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 July 1945 · page 10

Five men were injured yesterday when a lorry on which they were travelling swerved to avoid children's billycarts and collided with a tram. The accident occurred at the…

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Five men injured in truck-tram smash

The Sun · Sunday 15 July 1945 · page 9

FIVE men in a truck were injured when the truck and a tram collided at the intersection of…

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Japanese Who Preferred Capture to Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 July 1945 · page 1

Top: A group of Japanese seamen, who evidently preferred to live rather than die for the Emperor in Samurai…

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