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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

1,478 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 74

Airman Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 4

L AC. LEONARD BOND (19), stationed at Bradfield Park, received a probable fracture of the right foot, lacerations and abrasions…

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Man Drowned in Nepean River

Nepean Times · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 1

The body of a man afterward identified as Henry William Goldspring, of 25 Roseby Street, Marrickviille, was found floating in Nepean River, north…

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Home from Abroad, Accidentally Killed W/o. Paul G. WITTS

Nepean Times · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 1

It was heartbreaking irony of fate that that gallant young man, W/O. Paul Geoffrey Witts, second son of Mr and Mrs E. J. Witts, of Castlereagh…

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Girl's Story Of Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 2

Fay Elsie Lorraine Jackson (15), said at Manly Court today the first thing she remembered when she regained…

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Injured Mill-hand Making Progress

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 August 1945 · page 10

Cornelius Clutterbuck, mill-hand, who was injured while working on a logging contract near Armidale on Wednesday, was reported to be…

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Two Injured in Tram Collision

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 September 1945 · page 5

A SOLDIER and an elderly woman were slightly injured in a tram collision at the corner of Darley and Alison Rds., Randwick. today…

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Two Hurt In Tram Collision

The Sun · Saturday 1 September 1945 · page 3

Two passengers were injured in a tram collision at the junction of the Clovelly branch line…

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Guard Drowned Wounded Survivor of Massacre

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 September 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sat. -- A Japanese guard put his foot on the head of a wounded prisoner and held if under wafer till he was drowned. Ron Miscamble, of…

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20 Passengers Hurt P in Bus Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 September 1945 · page 8

PERTH, Sat. -- Twenty people were injured, six seriously, when a crowded Fremantle-bound bus crashed on its side after colliding with a utility truck…

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Famous Hoare-laval Plan an Accident

Truth · Sunday 2 September 1945 · page 23

LONDON, Saturday.—The Hoare-Laval Agreement, which played such a large part in the tragic history of the last decade, came into being by accident. THE agreement, in 1935,…

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Falstein in accident; no charge

The Sun · Sunday 2 September 1945 · page 2

INSTRUCTION that Flying-Officer Max Falstein, MHR, was to be charged as a result of damage to a…

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Murmurings Give Clue to Accident

The Sun · Sunday 2 September 1945 · page 6

THE mutterings of an unconscious man in St. George Hospital, have given a probable explanation of how h…

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Drowned Women Tied Together

The Sun · Monday 3 September 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Monday--The bodies of two women tied face, to face have been recovered from the River Dee at Chester…

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Cremin to Be X-rayed Injured Shoulder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 September 1945 · page 7

J. Cremin, Randwick Rugby Union captain, will have his injured shoulder X-rayed to-day. Cremin may have to be an onlooker…

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Foot Cut Off in City Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 September 1945 · page 10

An elderly woman had her right foot cut off yesterday when she fell under a tram at Broadway. She is Mrs. Alice Joseph, 63, of…

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Tito's Son Wounded in Revolver Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 September 1945 · page 8

BELGRADE, Monday. -- Zarko, a son of the Yugo-Slav guerrilla leader, Tito, and a lieutenant in a tank regiment was seriously wounded…

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Setback To Polar Star; Injured Shin

The Sun · Tuesday 4 September 1945 · page 10

Metropolitan candidate, Polar Star, has been off the racing scene for more than six weeks…

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Stabbing Was Accidental

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 September 1945 · page 4

Leo de Sil, 29, a coloured N.E.I. Serviceman, died as the result of a knife wound in the chest accidentally received during a quarrel with Esther…

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Hurt in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1945 · page 5

A young woman was injured last night when a car in which she was a passenger overturned. The car and a five-ton lorry collided at the corner…

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Man Fatally Injured Knocked Down by Car

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 September 1945 · page 1

Wheeling a bicycle across Church Street, Parramatta, near the Dunlop Street intersection, on Sunday afternoon Joseph s John Head (79), of…

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