by Moya | Apr 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
On of the best contributors to the WAVMM has been Elizabeth OLIVER, the Grandaughter of Joseph Thomas Coxon OLIVER. His complete profile can be viewed @ JTC Oliver. It may give you some idea of what you could do for your own family member who has been killed in a...
by Moya | Mar 23, 2017 | Blogs
From Karen Gartland:- This is a pic of my brother’s gravestone who died at Emu Mine Disaster on 13/06/1989 he is survived by his daughter Kelly and buried in Queenstown TAS where she lives with of her grandsons. On June 13, 1989, six men lost their lives in a...
by Moya | Mar 6, 2017 | Blogs
Southern Cross Times (WA : 1900 – 1920), Saturday 8 May 1909, page 3 In Memoriam:- ROBINSON.—In loving memory of Richard Robinson, who was killed in the Leviathan Mine, Kennyville, on May 11th. 1906. Aged 29 years. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we...
by Moya | Jan 21, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
ANOTHER MINING TRAGEDY TWO MORE MEN KILLED – HEAVY FALL OF EARTH 17th August 1926 – Another heavy fall of earth in the stope on the 1200 ft. level, section 8, Boulder boundary lode, yesterday afternoon claimed two more lives, making four since Thursday....
by Moya | Jan 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the paper (sorry TROVE its not your fault). I was going through a pile of archived newspaper cuttings, collected many years ago, before TROVE existed, and of course I read and checked all the ‘Mine...
by Moya | Aug 22, 2016 | Blogs
THE MINERS DREAM The Southern Cross Times 9th May 1914 The old identities expressed deep and sincere regret yesterday when word came into town that old Tommy King had been killed at Parker’s Range, for Tommy was one of the pioneers of 1887 and 1888. For over 28...
by Moya | Jun 25, 2016 | Blogs
MAN SWEPT ROUND SHAFTING AT THE ST GEORGE MINE. CONDITION CRITICAL 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 appears that the unfortunate man...
by Moya | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs
This photograph depicts the Jugoslav International Tug O’War Team in 1926:- In 1926, these men were in their prime, strong, fit and apparently healthy, having just been proclaimed as the goldfields champions of the ‘Tug of War’ competition. Almost all men who...
