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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 115

Two Injured At Newcastle

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-- Jockey N. Smith (Chamars) and W. Clement (Laughing Cavalier) had nasty falls…

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Injured Police in Hospital

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 5

DET.-SGT. BENNETT TOMS (43), who, with three other detectives was injured when a police car was crushed by a…

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Vic. Jockey Injured in Hurdle Crash

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Hurdle jockey J. Cooper was admitted to hospital with a dislocated shoulder and thigh…

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Vic. Jockey Injured in Hurdle Crash

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hurdle jockey J. Cooper was admitted to hospital with a dislocated shoulder and thigh…

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Man Killed In Accident

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 51

A man was killed and two others slightly injured last night when a three-ton truck overturned on…

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Crowded Baths Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 3

Ronald Alwyn McMonigal (13) was drowned unnoticed, although more than 1000 people were…

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Crowded Baths Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 3

Ronald Alwyn McMonigal (13) was drowned unnoticed, although more than 1000 people were…

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Crowded Baths Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 3

Ronald Alwyn McMonigal (13) was drowned unnoticed, although more than 1000 people were…

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Boy Drowned in Crowded Baths

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 3

Cross marks where Ronald Atwyn McMonigal (13) was drowned in Granville Municipal Baths last night while…

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Boy, 3, Drowned In Pool

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 1

A 3-years-old boy was drowned yesterday in a tiled swimming pool in the grounds of a house next to his home at Sans Souci. He was Warren Dehn Worner, son of Mr. and…

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6 Killed, 23 Injured In Accidents Husband, Wife Die

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 5

Six people were killed in road accidents during the weekend. Twenty-three people were injured…

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Boy, 13, drowned, in Granville pool

The Sun · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 7

A 13-year-old boy, reported missing at midnight, was found drowned in Granville Pool at 3am today. He was Ronald Alwin…

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Boy of 13 DROWNED Unnoticed By Hundreds Body Found Early Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

RONALD ALWYN McMONIGAL (13) was drowned unnoticed, although more than 1000 people were present, at Granville Municipal Baths East night…

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Accident Toll Five Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

Week- end accidents killed five persons and injured 35 in Sydney. Central District Ambulance…

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Boy Drowned

The Sun · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 7

GRAFTON, Tuesday. -- George Vincent Tobin, 17, railway employee, of South Grafton, was drowned in the…

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Injured in Trials

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 19

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- Jockey Ashley Burgess and Gordon Williams received minor injuries during barrier trials at…

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Three men hurt in collision

The Sun · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 3

Three men were injured in a collision today between a truck and a car at the intersection of Clovelly Road and…

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Three Youths Hurt in Cycle Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 12

THREE youths were injured last night in a collision between two bicycles and a motor cycle at the corner of George's…

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Three Youths Hurt in Cycle Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 12

THREE youths were injured last night in a collision between two bicycles and a motor cycle at the corner of George's…

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Three Youths Hurt in Cycle Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 12

THREE youths were injured last night in a collision between two bicycles and a motor cycle at the corner of George's…

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