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Obituaries & funerals, 1949

1,423 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 72

Death of Old Pair

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.-- Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Reid, a Darby and Joan couple of the socialite suburb of…

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Death of Old Pair

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Reid, a Darby and Joan couple of the socialite suburb of…

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Taxi-man Interfered with Funeral: Fined

The Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 3

Ernest Richardson, 25, Waverley taxi-driver, in the Traffic Court today, was fined £4 for interfering with the free passage of a funeral. Describing the charge as…

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Macdonald, Hamilton & Co. Death of Partner

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 1

We regret to announce the death of Mr. John Williham Pitt, partner in the well known shipping firm of Maedonald, Hamilton & Co. Mr…

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Mystery Death of Child

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 5

The Government Medical Officer will hold a postmortem examination today on the body of a child…

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Death of Dr. Mollison

The Sun · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. :-- Dr. C. H. Mollison, pathologist at the city morgue for 55- years died today, aged…

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Taxi Man Cut Into Funeral

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 12

A taxi driver who drove his vehicle through a funeral cortege was "indecent and discourteous,"…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 9

POLICE and doctors are puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 9

POLICE and doctors are puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 4

POLICE and doctors are puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 4

POLICE and doctors are x puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 9

POLICE and doctors are puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 9

POLICE and doctors are puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Death of Young Granville Digger

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 8

Official and members of Granville R.S.L. and representatives of Ashfield sub-branch formed a Guard of Honour at Holy Trinity…

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Death of Girl Puzzles Police

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 9

POLICE and doctors are f puzzled by the death of a five-years-old girl in Manly Hospital yesterday morning…

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Visit To U.S. For Funeral

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 2

Dorothy McGain, of Sydney, who is now in America for the reburial on Sunday of her dance, Lt. James…

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Interfered With Funeral; Taxi Man Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 7

A taxi-driver was fined £4, with 10/ costs and £4 witnesses' expenses, in the Traffic Court yesterday on a charge of…

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CAPT. A. DONALDSON Death of Noted Mariner

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 1

Former Commodore of the Burns Philp fleet, Captain Alexander Donaldson, died suddenly in Sydney last week at the age…

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Obituary Mr. L. F. Ludlow

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 2

Lionel Frank Ludlow (65), died at his daughter's residence, "Glen Park," Windsor Road, Baulkham Hills, last week…

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Woman, 80, defies death threat of thieves for hour

The Sun · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 3

Threatened with death by two young thieves, an 80-year-old woman shopkeeper held out for nearly a hour at Penrith early today before she revealed where her money was hidden…

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