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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

2,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 128

Sailors Fear Collision, Dive Into Sea

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

Four Royal Navy ratings dived fully clothed from a launch 50 yards from Man O'War steps today when a…

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Sailors Fear Collision, Dive Into Sea

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

Four Royal Navy ratings dived fully clothed from a launch 50 yards from Man O'War steps today when a…

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Sailors Fear Collision, Dive Into Sea

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

Four Royal Navy ratings dived fully clothed from a launch 50 yards from Man O'War steps today when a…

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Sailors Fear Collision, Dive Into Sea

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

Four Royal Navy ratings dived fully clothed from a launch 50 yards from Man O'War steps today when a…

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Hit by Car, Two Men Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 7

KNOCKED down by a car, two men were injured, one seriously, in William St., near Crown St., City, last night…

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Novel of the Week a hero by accident Repent in Haste, by John P. Marquand. Boston: Little, Brown, and Cox

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 15

JOHN Phillip Marquand, winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and author of, among…

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Dying Statement by Injured Man

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 6

A dying declaration has been take by Dorrigo police from Charles Vincent Graham, 63, timber-cutter, found critically injured in Veech Street, Dor…

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Accidents: Cycle Hits Men on Road

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 5

WHEN a motor cyclist crashed into a crowd of soldiers in Belmore-road, Herne Bay, last…

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Lottery prizes weren't accidents Claims Big Wins by 'System'

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 9

CENTRAL District Ambulance Superintendent H. J. Mitchell claims he has a secret system which has…

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Eight Injured in Car-lorry Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 3

Eight persons were injured in a collision between these two vehicles at the corner of Archer and Ashley Streets, Chatswood, yesterday. The occupants of the lorry (right), who were on their way to a picnic, were thrown out when it was turned on to its side…

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Drowning At Baths

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

A woman was drowned while swimming in the ladies' baths in the Sydney Domain this afternoon. After artificial…

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Drowning At Baths

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

A woman was drowned while swimming in the ladies' baths in the Sydney Domain this afternoon. After artificial…

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Two Killed, 9 Injured in Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 7

Two people were killed and nine injured in three road accidents yesterday. A girl was killed and a man…

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Drowned In City Baths

The Sun · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 3

Treatment in an iron lung and with carbogen gas failed to revive Elizabeth Kay, 38, who was found in 15 feet of water at the…

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140 Drowned At Festival

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 13

CALCUTTA, Monday. -- More than 140 people were drowned yesterday when two jetties collapsed on the Hooghly River…

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Royal Navy Pilot Drowned in Baths

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 11

A 20-year-old R.N. pilot attached to H.M.S. Glory was drowned yesterday while swimming in the Nowra Baths, South Coast…

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Aged Man Drowned on Fishing Trip

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The body of a 77-year-old man who, with a younger companion, failed to return from a fishing trip on Friday, was…

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Boy Seriously Injured in Fall

The Sun · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 5

John Wight (7). of Great Buckingham-street, fell 5ft. from a window-sill of a building at the corner of Elizabeth and Dawson…

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R.N. Officer Drowned in Nowra Baths

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 4

NOWRA, Sunday.—A Royal Navy officer, Sub-Lieutenant A. C. Dooley, was drowned in the public swimming baths at Nowra to-day…

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Girl Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 3

When she was struck by a motor car while riding a bicycle in Lakemba Road, Lakemba, last night, Valmai Verran, 17, of Wangee Road…

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