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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Scalding Fatality

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Thursday-- Gilbert Davidson (25) was fat? ally scalded at Crescent Head on Tuesday. He upset a…

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Scalding Fatality

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Thursday.--Gilbert Davidson (21) was fatally scalded at Crescent Head on Tuesday. He upset à…

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Boy Drowned

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 5

Frederick John Bunting (8), son of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Bunting, of Moore Streat, Glenbrook, was accidentally drowned in a waterhole on…

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Arncliffe Boy Drowned

The Propeller · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 2

A four-years-old boy was drowned when he fell into a dam on Cattai Creek, near Windsor, last Sunday afternoon. The boy, Leslie James…

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Pole Breaks, Man Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 7

AN electrical linesman was critically injured today when a pole on which he was standing 40ft. above the ground…

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Pole Snaps, Man Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

A N electrical linesman was critically injured today when a pole on which he was standing 40ft. above the ground…

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Pole Breaks, Man Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 7

AN, electrical linesman was critically injured today when a pole on which he was standing 40ft. above the ground…

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Pole Breaks, Man Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 7

AN electrical linesman was critically injured today when a pole on which he was standing 40ft. above the…

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Last Minute News Boy Injured

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 24

Operating a circular saw in [?]rniture factory in Dove-[?]andwick, this after-[?]ecil Edwards, 16, of…

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Australians Injured British Airliner Crashes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 7 (A.A.P.). —Two Sydney people were among the 10 injured when a British European Airways…

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Dog Guides Father to Injured Baby

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 1

Howling of a dog last night led a man to his 2½-year-old son who was lying unconscious near a railway line at Bardwell Park. Francis Cecil Masters, of…

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Car Death Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

A FINDING of accidental death was recorded at Burwood Coroner's Court today at the inquest into the death of…

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Car Death Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

A FINDING of accidental death was recorded at Burwood Coroner's Court today at the inquest into the death of…

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Car Death Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

A FINDING of accidental death was recorded at Burwood Coroner's Court today at the inquest into the death of…

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Veteran S.a. Jockey Hurt in Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--When the car he was driving collided with a tram at Morphettville this morning, veteran…

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Funeral of Mystery Rail Accident Victim

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

THE body of a young man who was killed near Auburn railway station on December 30 was buried today in an…

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Veteran S.a. Jockey Hurt in Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--When the car he was driving collided with a tram at Morphettville this morning, veteran…

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Car Death Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 2

A FINDING of accidental death was recorded at Burwood Coroner's Court today at the inquest into the death of…

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Funeral of Mystery Rail Accident Victim

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

THE body of a young man who was killed near Auburn Railway station on December 30 was buried today in an…

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Police Cyclist in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 9

A police motor cyclist was injured yesterday when his cycle collided with a motor lorry at the corner of Moore…

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