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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

1,478 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 74

Children Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 13

Three children were seriously injured in accidents yesterday. FREDERICK McDONALD (12), Boyce St., Glebe, received a…

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Children Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 5

Three children were seriously injured in accidents yesterday. Frederick . McDONALD (12). Boyce St., Glebe, received a…

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Children Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 5

Three children were seriously injured in accidents yesterday. "Prederick Mcdonald (12), Boyce St., Glebe, received a…

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Country Boy Loses Life in Accidental Shooting

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 2

ARMIDALE, Thursday.-- Lionel Bell (10) died this morning from a rifle wound accidentally received yesterday on the property of his uncle…

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Drowned From Rocks

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 3

GOSFORD, Friday.--Ernest Spears (51), married, of Mann St., Gosford, was washed off the rocks at Avoca Beach this afternoon and…

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Two Youths, Gire and Baby Drowned Tragedies in N.S.W.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 4

Four lives were lost by drowning in New South Wales yesterday. A youth was swept out to sea while surfing at Maroubra; a youth and a girl were drowned in waterholes, and a baby wat drowned in a bath…

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Train Accident Inquiry Listed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 6

A departmental investigation into the train smash at Merrylands on Wednesday would be held immediately, the Premier (Mr. McKell) said last…

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Cyclist Injured, Does Not Remember Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 2

UNABLE to tell police how he became injured, David Leonard Helzinger (29), Wentworth Rd., Wentworthville, was admitted to…

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Cyclist Injured, Does Not Remember Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 2

UNABLE to tell police how he became injured. David Leonard Helzinger (29), Wentworth Rd., Went- worthville, was admitted to…

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Fisherman Missing, Believed Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 6

GOSFORD, Friday.--Mr. Percy Spears, 55, is believed to have been drowned this afternoon at Avoca Beach. He was fishing off the rocks when…

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Man Injured in Car Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 28 January 1945 · page 5

A man was seriously injured yesterday when a car somersaulted and rolled on its side on Neath Road, Kearsley. The injured man, Andrew Mason, 38,…

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Wins sailing after collision

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1945 · page 7

A COLLISION with a skiff, shortly after the start, did not prevent X-Press from winning the Sydney Flying…

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An accident made a new air chief

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1945 · page 3

A Mountbatten Order of the Day revealed this week that 53-year-old Alfred Guy Roland Garrod had been made Air…

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Cyclist Injured

The Sun · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 3

Keith Henderson, 14, of Chisholm-street, Darlinghurst, was seriously injured today when his push bike and a car collided in…

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Express Trains in Collision

The Sun · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Between 20 and 30 passengers, including a land girl who had a hand severed, were injured last night when…

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Man Dies After Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 8

TWO people were injured, one fatally, in accidents yesterday and last night. Elliot Scott (35). Margaret St…

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Man Dies After Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 8

TWO people were injured, one fatally, in accidents yesterday and last night. Elliot Scott (35), Margaret St.,…

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Man Dies After Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 8

TWO people were injured, one fatally, in accidents yesterday and last night. Elliot Scott (35), Margaret St.,…

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Man Dies After Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 11

TWO people were injured, one fatally, in accidents yesterday and last night. Elliot Scott (35), Margaret St.,…

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Soldier Dies in Train Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- A Canadian soldier was killed and 30 people injured last night, when two heavily- laden express trains collided at Esher…

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