by Moya | Jan 10, 2020 | Blogs
In conjunction with the Collie Coal Miners Union who erected the Collie Coal Miners Memorial we have now added to the WAVMM all of the miners on the memorial. www.wavmm.com The following 55 men now each have a profile page and as much information on each person and...
by Moya | Jan 3, 2020 | Miner Profile
Samuel James Ennor — A Miner’s Story by David McMillan (volunteer researcher). In July 1909, Samuel Ennor died of a cerebral hemorrhage that occurred while working at the Federal Gold Mine, at the northern end of the Golden Mile. He could not have expected that his...
by Moya | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have recently been in correspondence with Elaine Hopper and Michael Crennan who have kindly allowed me to share the story about their relative, Michael Crennan. We originally came into contact through the Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial web site, as...
by Moya | Oct 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Allan Murray AYLES, age 35yrs, an assayer, was killed on 23rd March 1916 at the Wiluna State Battery. He became caught in the belting of a Berdan Pan and was crushed by the machinery. He was from Wellington New Zealand. he was the son of Allan AYLES and Mother Mary E...
by Moya | Oct 11, 2019 | Blogs
While recently doing my daily post on the WAVMM ‘The Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial’ I found that it was the anniversary of a disaster which caused the death of three men at the Englishman GM in Kookynie. There are the names of the men:- BOURKE...
by Moya | Oct 1, 2019 | Miner Profile
Young men “turned to stone”. George Boyland George Boyland was born in Garden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, on the 8th March 1872. The son of a miner, he and his brother and sister moved with their parents from Victoria to Queensland, and then around 1894 to Western...
by Moya | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
William Nicholas, was the manager of the Main Load GM in Burbanks. He had a long flowing white bear and was know for his eccentric behavior. This earned him the nickname of ‘The Professor’. He married Alice FOWLER and they had two daughters, Alice May and...
by Moya | Sep 18, 2019 | Blogs
MAN SWEPT ROUND SHAFTING AT THE ST GEORGE MINE. CONDITION CRITICAL On the 5 July 1908, Amadeo (Andrew) Thomas Sarte, 59 years of age, and employed in general work on the surface, met with a dreadful accident at the St. George mine on Thursday afternoon last. It...
by Moya | May 11, 2019 | Miner Profile
Streets named after miners who have been killed in workplace accidents in Kalgoorlie:- In the mid 1990’s the new subdivision of Somerville-O’Connor started a trend to name new streets after miners who had been killed in mining accidents:- BATES DRIVE:...
by Moya | Feb 5, 2019 | Blogs
Turning Men Into Stone A social and medical history of silicosis in Western Australia 1890-1970 by Dr Criena Fitzgerald 1960, WA physician Dr Bob Elphick remarked to his colleagues that the mining industry was turning men into stone. This evocative image aptly...
