Lt. Philip Edward Michael VOWELS (KIA) 11th May 1918 aged 27 years, Born in 1890 in Horsham, VIC (23994), 11th Battalion(Infantry) Military Cross and bar to Military Cross. He was the son of William Henry VOWELS and Bridget Maria (Whelan), who came over to Cioolgardie, Western Australia, in the late 1890s. He is acknowledged in […]
Spargo’s Reward Gold Mine – Roll of Honour
Place: Coolgardie, Western Australia, 6429 Orientation: 39 km SW of Kalgoorlie Location: RSL Sub-Branch, Cnr Bayley Street and Ford Street, Coolgardie, Western Australia Position: 30 57 29S 121 10 13 The polished wooden board remembers employees of Spargo’s Reward Gold Mine who served in World War II. The mine was about 50 km south of […]
Peter Dennis KAVANAGH – a ledgend in his time
Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty-one. How he crushed the gold-stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also a […]
Arthur Postle – The Crimson Flash
ARTHUR POSTLE – WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE “THE CRIMSON FLASH” Born in 1881 at Springside near Pittsworth in Queensland, Arthur Postle was revered around the globe in the years before World War I as the fastest man alive. He turned professional in 1902 and on 5 December 1906 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, he set a world […]
A Man was Killed in the Mine Today – verse
I entered the cage for the ‘Number Nine’ A trucker paused at the brace to say, As he left the depths of the gloomy mine, A man was killed in the mine today! Then the winder sang as we rushed below, And the plats flashed upwards merrily, And yet to toil. Yet it came to […]
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