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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Inquest on Boxer Accident Verdict Contest Hard and Clean

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 9

DEATH of professional boxer Reginald Erie ("Rip") Bunker, following a contest at Leichhardt Stadium on…

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Inquest on Boxer Accident Verdict Contest Hard and Clean

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 9

DEATH of professional boxer Reginald Eric ("Rip") Bunker, following a contest at Leichhardt Stadium on…

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Inquest on Boxer Accident Verdict Contest Hard and Clean

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 9

DEATH of professional boxer Reginald Eric ("Rip") Bunker, following a contest at Leichhardt Stadium on…

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Man's Leg Broken in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 22

ALLAN FRINLLY (42), Commonwealth Residential, Campbell St., City was knocked over by a car in Oxford St. at 6.20 p.m. yesterday and…

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Man's Leg Broken in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 11

ALLAN FRINLLY (42), Commonwealth Residential, Campbell St., City, was knocked over by a car in Oxford St., at 6.20 p.m. yesterday and…

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Man's Leg Broken in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 22

ALLAN FRINLLY (42), Commonwealth Residential, Campbell St.. City, was knocked over by a car in Oxford St. at 6.20 p.m. yesterday and…

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Man's Leg Broken in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 22

ALLAN FRINLLY (42), Common-wealth Residehtial, Campbell St., City, was knocked over by a car in Oxford St. at 6.20 p.m. yesterday and…

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Inquest on Boxer Accident Verdict Contest Hard and Clean

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 9

DEATH of professional boxer Reginald Eric ("Rip") Bunker, following a contest at Leichhardt Stadium on…

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Man's Leg Broken in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 22

ALLAN FRINLLY (42), Commonwealth Residential, Campbell St., City, was knocked over by a car in Oxford St. at 6.20 p.m. yesterday and…

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Inquest on Boxer Accident Verdict Contest Hard and Clean

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 9

DEATH of professional boxer Reginald Eric ("Rip") Bunker, following a contest at Leichhardt Stadium on…

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Man's Leg Broken in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 22

ALLAN FRINLLY (42), Commonwealth Residential, Campbell St., City, was knocked over by a car in Oxford St. at 6.20 p.m. yesterday and…

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Car Collides With Parked Truck Glenbrook Lady Injured

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 4

Driving down Lapstone Hill on Friday night, in misty weather, Mr. Peter Freeburn was at a disadvantage when, after dimming his lights for an…

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Five Hurt in Road Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 16

Two motor lorries and a tram were involved in a collision in Gardeners Road, Mascot, yesterday. Three passengers and two conductors on the…

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Linesman Injured

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 2

RENDERED unconscious when he came into contact with a live wire while working on a telegraph pole in Tebbutt St., Leichhardt,…

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Injured Man Alone In Hut

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 2

Suffering agony from a probable fractured thigh, a 73-years-old pensioner was. forced to lie alone in his shack in the…

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Injured Woman Carried A Mile

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 5

WOY WOY, Thursday.--Ambulance men carried a woman who fractured one of her legs at Woy Woy Bay to-night a mile on a stretcher to an…

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75 Dead, 300 Injured in U.s. Blast

The Sun · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 1

LOS ANGELES, Thursday.-- At least seventy- five persons were killed and 300 injured by a terrific explosion which rocked the industrial district of Los Angeles today…

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Accident in Kingsway

The Observer · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 9

Gordon Hannah, local fish shop proprietor, had a narrow escape last Thursday when a utility he was driving overturned in Kingsway, opposite…

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Collision Holds Up City Bound Trains

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 5

A railway engine collided with an empty train near Auburn signal box yesterday. The collision derailed the engine and…

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Four Hurt In Accidents

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 2

Four men were injured in accidents in the city and suburbs last night. JOSEPH BROAD (70), Onslow Ave.,…

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