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The Importance of being Frank –

14/03/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Bernard Joseph Frank was born in Nelson Lyell, New Zealand, in 1867. He was a miner and was the son of Jacob FRANK (Carpenter) and Mary HASLAM. He first came to Victoria and then on to the WA Goldfields in 1893, and headed to Broad Arrow to seek his fortune. This was where his first […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia, WW1

Blood on the Mulga Plains: The Last Day of John Sutherland

28/02/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Sutherland, better known as the ‘Duke of Sutherland’, died on the 26th of February 1895 in his own camp at Nannine, in the Meekatharra district. His age was not known. He was a miner who was shot dead by an old friend, Henry Augustus Muller, who then killed himself. Both men were old identities […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Meekatharra, Nannine, Western Australia

A Brother’s Return in Mourning: Tragedy on the Coolgardie Goldfields

28/02/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Albert Ernest Bezzant was born in 1873 in Buninyong, Victoria. He was the youngest son of Richard Bezzant (1830-1912) and Sarah, nee Scott (1827-1905). Albert died at the age of 22 years on 12 February 1895 in Coolgardie, Western Australia. On his death registration, he is listed as a Miner and the cause of his […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Contract at Old Warden Shaft

28/02/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times: 22 December 1907 Old “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet had just been let, and the two mates had […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Cue, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

Their Dogs Drank First: The Last Journey to Bulong

28/02/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette  – 9 September 1921, page 3 Missing Aboriginal Couple Near Christmas, two natives called Long Johnny and Thin Judy (tribal names not known) left Hasson’s, Mt. Hale station, for the purpose of attending a corroboree at Bulong on the Belele country, but never reached there. Later, a […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Aboriginal, Australian History, Bulong, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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