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Thomas CLEWS
Age at Death34
Date Of Death26 October 1936 : Reg 256/1936 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie)
Place Of BirthLewisham, England
OccupationMiner
Spouse's NameKathleen Maud SELBY
ChildrenFour - Dorothy Maud - Madeleine Christina - Robert Allan - Thomas Vincent.
In Memory of Thomas Clews
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Coolgardie Miner, Thursday 5 November 1936
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum, Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Thomas Clews marked with cross - Photo Ancestry.com
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Blacketts GM, Kunanulling, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Fall of earth.
Place Of Burial
Karrakatta Cemetery, Karakatta, Western Australia
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Married
District
Kunanalling
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Thomas Springall CLEWS
Mother
Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY
Place of marriage
23 May 1929. Perth, Western Australia
Other Information
He had already been on a day shift when his brother requested that he should take the evening shift as well so that the brother could take his girlfriend to a dance. Thomas’s wife was against his doing this second shift as he appeared to be too tired. Unfortunately, she was so annoyed at his agreeing to do the second shift that she didn’t kiss him goodbye when he left to take up the shift. She regretted this forever after.
The coroner’s report stated that his death would probably not have happened if the stope had been properly timbered. Mrs Clews was awarded a compensation of a thousand pounds when in effect she could have got substantially more by court action and was left with four young children to support.
His brothers gave their sister-in-law twenty-five pounds for his gun, tools, furniture, and house.
Mrs. Clews packed up what she could and moved to Perth where she spent most of the compensation money on buying a house for the family to live in. The eldest son left school at fifteen to help support the family.
