Addition Panel - Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial Kalgoorlie Boulder WA
Arthur William GROSS
Age at Death63
Date Of Death28 April 1952 : Reg 7/1952 Boulder
Place Of BirthMcLaren Vale, South Australia
OccupationLabourer
Spouse's NameFlorence Winifred CAMPBELL
ChildrenAdelaide Daphne born 1912 (first Marriage)
West Australian, Tuesday 29 April 1952
Kalgoorlie Cemetery - photo Danelle Warnock
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - photo Danelle Warnock
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum, Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Croesus Proprietary treatment plant, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Collapsed while working due to inhaling fumes.
Place Of Burial
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Married
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Friedrich Hermann Gross (Grohs)
Mother
Caroline POWELL
Place of marriage
1st marr 30 Aug 1911 - Congregational Church, Victor Harbor, South Australia, 2nd marr Dorothy Margaret SMITH 28 Jul 1926 • Congregational Church, North Adelaide, South Australia,
Other Information
The Croesus Gold Mine is now part of the western edge of the Superpit. The Croesus Proprietary was a London-based company that developed the mine from the late 1890's. The gold was found at depth in the calcschist, for a long time a rock thought to carry no gold on the Golden Mile. Gold was described as fine and frosting the matrix.
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