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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

2,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 148

Injured Man's Death After 300-Mile Drive

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

AN elderly man who was brought 300 miles from Walcha to Sydney by ambulance on Tuesday, with a fractured thigh, died in the Royal…

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Injured Man's Death After 300-Mile Drive

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

AN elderly man who was brought 300 miles from Walcha to Sydney by ambulance on Tuesday, with a fractured thigh, died in the Royal…

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Injured Man's Death After 300-Mile Drive

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

AN elderly man who was brought 300 miles from Walcha to Sydney by ambulance on Tuesday, with a fractured thigh, died in the Royal…

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Injured Man's Death After 300-Mile Drive

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

AN elderly man who was brought 300 miles from Walcha to Sydney by ambulance on Tuesday, with a fractured thigh, died in the Royal…

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Injured Man's Death After 300-Mile Drive

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

AN elderly man who was brought 300 miles from Walcha to Sydney by ambulance on Tuesday, with a fractured thigh, died in the Royal…

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Injured Man's Death After 300-Mile Drive

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

AN elderly man who was brought 300 miles from Walcha to Sydney by ambulance on Tuesday, with a fractured thigh, died in the Royal…

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Stop Press Shield Cricket Victorin won the loss and will bat Burning Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 32

Geoffrey James (28), produce merchant, Short St., Leichhardt, was burned about the hands and face in Market St., City, this…

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Holiday Drowning

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.-- A holiday-maker has drowned this morning when washed off the rocks at Windang Island, about…

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Stop Press Man Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 16

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at Windang Island, a…

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Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. --John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at…

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Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. --John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at…

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Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. --John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at…

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Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. --John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at…

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Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at…

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Washed Off Rocks, Drowned

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. --John Joseph Everitt (40), plasterer, 18 Bower St., Lakemba, was washed off the rocks at…

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Injured On Wanganella

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 3

WELLINGTON (NZ), Saturday.-- Horace Alanson, 61, of Sydney, greaser on the stranded Wanganella, was seriously…

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Boy Drowned at Baths Enfield Tragedy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 4

Ronald Stanley Smith, aged 9, of 47 Lord's Road, Leichhardt, was drowned in the Enfield Baths yesterday morning…

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200 Injured in Indian Clash Moslems' Demonstration In Lahore Angry Women Defy Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 7

LAHORE, Saturday. --Nearly 200 Moslem League demonstrators were injured in a police baton charge in Lahore yesterday…

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Injured in march past

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 January 1947 · page 15

Maroubra standard-bearer Charlie Lenton had an agonising 10 minutes during yesterday's march…

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Boy Injured by Motor Cycle

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1947 · page 9

William Settle, aged three, was badly injured When he was struck by a motor-cycle outside his home in Ashburner-street, Manly,…

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