Fields Find Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Frederick Robert SMITH
Age at Death27
Date Of Death31 August 1899 : Reg 2466/1899
Place Of BirthGreenough, Western Australia.
OccupationMiner
Kalgoorlie Miner, Mon 4 Sep 1899 Page 5 WEST AUSTRALIA.
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Fields Find GM, Fields Find, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Explosion of a case of 50 sticks of gelignite. Four men were killed: William PAYNE, Daniel HOGAN, Frederick SMITH and Edward KING.
Hogan was the only one whose partial body was recovered. The other bodies are buried under thousands of tons of earth.
Place Of Burial
Goldmine on the Fields Find to Paynes Find road, Western Australia.
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Single
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
George Henry SMITH (1819-1873)
Mother
Mary 'May' Victoria Smith KELLY (1840-1929)
Other Information
Smith, Frederick. "More Lonely Graves of Western Australia". (2000) Coate, Yvonne & Kevin. Hesperian Press. Page 360
Story: The Fields Find Tragedy
