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Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 76

Fire Damages Burgled Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which severely damaged a weatherboard cottage in Sydney…

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Fire Damages Burgled Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which severely damaged a weatherboard cottage in Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fire Damages Burgled Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which severely damaged a weatherboard cottage in Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fire Damages Burgled Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which severely damaged a weatherboard cottage in Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fire Damages Burgled Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which severely damaged a weatherboard cottage in Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fire Damages Burgled Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which severely damaged a weatherboard cottage in Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Hailstorm Lashes Town in Qld. Bushfires Raging in Other Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday.—Eighty points of rain fell in 20 minutes in a hailstorm at Dirranbandi, in south-west Queensland, this…

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Tenth Bushfire Victim Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Another man. burned in last week's bushfires near Wangaratta, died In the Wangaratta Base Hospital yesterday…

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Tenth Bushfire Victim Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Monday.--Another man, burned in last week's bushfires near Wangaratta, died in the Wangaratta Base Hospital yesterday…

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Tenth Bushfire Victim Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Another man, burned in last week's bushfires near Wangaratta, died in the Wangaratta Base Hospital yesterday…

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Tenth Bushfire Victim Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Another man, burned in last week's bushfires near Wangaratta, died in the Wangaratta Base Hospital yesterday…

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Tenth Bushfire Victim Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Another man, burned in last week's bushfires near Wangaratta, died in the Wangaratta Base Hospital yesterday…

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20 Fatherless Through Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Twenty children have been left fatherless by the Wangaratta bushfires last week…

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Taxi Blaze at Bondi Swift Action Saves Driver

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 4

Clothing was flung from windows by flat residents in Campbell Parade, Bondi, yesterday to smother petrol flames which…

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Bulldozers Keep the Home Fires Burning

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.--Bulldozers and mechanical scoops are fearing up Wentworth Woodhouse, famous Yorkshire country home, to obtain coal. Wentworth Woodhouse is the…

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Washing Catches Fire While on Clothes-line

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 9

A clothes-line of washing caught fire at the home of Mrs. Charles Solly-Flood, Ocean Avenue, Edgecliff. Cause of the fire is unknown. Mrs. Solly-Flood had hung the…

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Five Fire Victims on Danger List Victorian Governor to Visit Area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Five of the Victorian bushfire victims in hospital are still named on the danger list and the condition of Laurie…

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Victims of Bushfire on Danger List

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 5

WANGARATTA, Tuesday.--Arthur Wellington, of Markwood, and Laurie O'Keefe, of Boorhaman, both bushfire victims, are on the danger…

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Fire Destroys Homestead

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 2

BALLARAT, Wednesday. -- Erected 30 years ago at a cost of about £20,000 the homestead on East Mount Mitchell Estate, owned by Messrs. J…

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Fire Destroys Homestead

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 2

BALLARAT, Wednesday. -- Erected 30 years ago at a cost of about £20,000 the homestead on East Mount Mitchell Estate, owned by Messrs. J…

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