Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Frederick Charles Jackson REID
Age at Death39
Date Of Death24 February 1908 : Reg 5/1908 East Murchison
Place Of BirthNotting Hill, Westminster, London, England
OccupationMiner
Spouse's NameAnnie MARSDEN - Alice Louisa MAZEY
ChildrenCharles Augustus Reid born 6 October 1890 and Walter Frederick Reid born 26 August 1892.(both born to Annie - Henry Arthur Mazey born 23rd Dec 1887
Truth, Saturday 4 July 1908
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Samuel,_Western_Australia
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Plaque Lawlers Cemetery - outbackgraves.org
Mentioned on the headstone of his son at Sir Samuel Cemetery.
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Bellevue GM, Sir Samuel, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
On the 21st February, Reid suffered a fractured skull from being drawn into machinery by the conveyor belt. Died in hospital without regaining consciousness.
The deceased left England at 3 years of age, spent 12 years in New Zealand and 15 years in Victoria before moving to Western Australia. He had been working at the Bellevue Gold Mine Battery for seven years when he and Mr. Blaney, the Battery Manager, were examining a belt that had been lying idle for about nine months. Mr. Blaney was holding the belt at the pulley end and he told Reid to hold the other end. The belt was saturated with oil that had been dripping on it all the time the belt had been lying idle. The belt caught on the pulley at the end Reid was holding, dragging him in head first. The acting manager sent an urgent wire to Lawlers for a doctor. Reid was taken home about 10 o'clock at night, and next day, his wife took him to the Lawlers Hospital, a distance of about 32 miles. There, he was found to be suffering from a fracture to the base of the skull, a broken collar bone and considerable abrasions and injuries, but he died on February 24, never having regained consciousness from the time of the accident. No inquest was held into the death, which caused considerable angst to his widow . Sadly., on 18th December that same year, and just 10 months after the mine accident that claimed his father's life, while engaged in repairs to the belt in the engine room, Reid's son, Charles Augustus, ascended the roof and fell through the corroded sheet iron and onto the driving wheel. He was an apprentice fitter at the same mine as his father had worked. The lad died as a result of the fall. He was aged 18 years. The deceased is buried in Plot 28, Section C, Roman Catholic section of Lawlers Cemetery.
Place Of Burial
Lawlers Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Married
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Frederick REID
Mother
Hannah Louise (Annie) FULLER
Place of marriage
To Annie 30th Aug 1890 in Victoria - Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria. 1890 to Alice 8th Nov 1900 - Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Other Information
No inquest was held into this accident to which Reid's widow, Annie Reid, protested vigorously in her letter to the "Truth" newspaper (see link).
Ten months later their 18-year-old son, Charles Augustus REID, a fitter's apprentice, was killed at the Bellevue Mine and buried at Sir Samuel Cemetery (18/12/1908 - WA BDM 2/1909)
STORY: https://www.wavmm.com/2018/03/01/a-father-and-son-family-story/
