Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Guiseppe “Joe” SCOLARI
Age at Death55
Date Of Death17 December 1958 : Reg 227/1958 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie)
Place Of BirthGorno, Lombardia, Italy
OccupationPlatelayer
Spouse's NameCaterina ZANGA
ChildrenEnis SCOLARI born 1938
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Kalgoorlie Cemetery - photo Danelle Warnock
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - photo Danelle Warnock
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Sons of Gwalia GM, Leonora, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
The mine No 2 well was being re-timbered when a length of sawn timber slipped from the rope sling, fell some 30ft and struck Scolari's safety helmet and fractured his skull.
- DMP Annual Report 1958
Place Of Burial
Leonora Cemetery, Western Australia
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Admin. Updated by David McMillan (volunteer)
MSW
Married
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Pietro SCOLARI
Mother
Jovanna EPIS
Place of marriage
1937 Kalgoorlie WA
Other Information
This was the last Sons of Gwalia fatality before the mine closed in 1963.
See page 216 in Lyman L. and Fitzgerald, C. (eds) (2012) "110 in the Waterbag. A history of life, work and leisure in Leonora, Gwalia and the Northern Goldfields". Western Australian Museum.
