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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1949

1,423 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 72

New Funeral Service Held Behind Locked Doors Mix-up Of 2 Coffins

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

A NEW funeral service was held today for the late Mr. Robert Lamb, who was cremated yesterday instead of buried as the result of an amazing…

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New Funeral Service Held Behind Locked Doors Mix-up Of 2 Coffins

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

A NEW funeral service was held today for the late Mr. Robert Lamb, who was cremated yesterday instead of buried as the result of an amazing…

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New Funeral Service Held Behind Locked Doors Mix-up Of 2 Coffins

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

A NEW funeral service was held today for the late Mr. Robert Lamb, who was cremated yesterday instead of buried as the result of an amazing…

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New Funeral Service Held Behind Locked Doors Mix-up Of 2 Coffins

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

A NEW funeral service was held today for the fate Mr. Robert Lamb, who was cremated yesterday instead of buried as the result of an amazing…

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New Funeral Service Held Behind Locked Doors Mix-up Of 2 Coffins

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

A NEW funeral service was held today for the Sate Mr. Robert Lamb, who was cremated yesterday instead of buried as the result of an amazing…

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Second Funeral Service

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 8

The sons of a man who was cremated by mistake on Thursday attended a second funeral service for…

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Death of Gift Camel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 February 1949 · page 3

The camel which last week had offers of 150 good homes died yesterday…

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Earlier Attempts to Shift Camel Mystery Death of Gift Camel

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1949 · page 44

THE camel for which showman Lance Skuthorpe requested an understanding owner died yesterday a few minutes after it reached its new home. The RSPCA will…

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Death Fall Of Russian

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

NAPLES, Monday. — A Russian diplomat, Dr. Nicolai Poleitchikov, fell to his death over a cliff…

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Death Fall Of Russian

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

NAPLES, Monday. — A Russian diplomat, Dr. Nicolai Poleitchikov, fell to his death over a cliff…

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Death Fall Of Russian

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

NAPLES, Monday. — A Russian diplomat, Dr. Nicolai Poleitchikov, fell to his death over a cliff…

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Death Fall Of Russian

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

NAPLES, Monday. — A Russian diplomat, Dr. Nicolai Poleitchikov, fell to his death over a cliff…

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Death Fall Of Russian

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

NAPLES, Monday. — A Russian diplomat, Dr. Nicolai Poleitchikov, fell to his death over a cliff…

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Death of a Giant

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 3

Steeplejacks at Auburn recently demolished this 20-years-old brickyard chimney with a charge of gelignite…

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Funeral Dirge for Dead “Bull” System

Tribune · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 7

The “bull” system got a special “tally clerks’ farewell” at a ceremony staged at the Kent Street pick-up last week to celebrate the official beginning of the rotary system. IN mock mourning at the passing of…

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Mystery Death of Man

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 5

Police inquiries so far indicate that a 28-years-old farm-hand, in whose body arsenic was found,…

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Mystery Death of Man

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 5

Police inquiries so far indicate that a 28-years-old farm-hand, in whose body arsenic was found,…

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Death of Ford Director

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The death is reported at Geelong of Mr. Thomas Francis Lamb, director of the Ford Motor…

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Mystery Death of Man

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 5

Police inquiries so far indicate that a 28-years-old farm-hand, in whose body arsenic was found,…

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Mystery Death of Man

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 5

Police inquiries so far indicate that a 28-years-old farm-hand, in whose body arsenic was found,…

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