George GAYFORD, Prospector – grave tales

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This is a photograph of George Gayford, a prospector, taken about 1935 in Wilina. He died the same year as this photo was taken. He is buried in the Wiluna Cemetery.  I have always thought this image captures the hard life of the prospector in the early days. How tough must he have been to […]

Bridget Delia Oates – grave tales

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The following photograph is of the headstone and grave of Bridget Delia Oates, who was the beloved wife of Richard Knight Oates, born in County Clare, Ireland, on 28 January 1873. She died at Kalgoorlie on the 17th September 1909, aged 37 years. This photograph was taken just after the headstone, ledger, and grave fencing […]

YUNNDAGA – ghost town

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YUNNDAGA AKA WOOLGAR Latitude 29° 45′ S Longitude 121° 03′ E Yunndaga is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 718 km east north east of Perth and 7 km south of Menzies. Gold was discovered in the area in the mid-1890s, and in 1898, a business and residence subdivision was laid out at what was then […]

Horace LAMBLEY – A Forgotten Victim of War

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HORACE LAMBLEY: –  It is not known why Horace Lambley came to Kalgoorlie and was buried here in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, alone, and a long way from his family.  His life after the war was a sad one and is a testament to possible mental problems arising from his service, as was the case for […]

Sapper Alfred John WITHERS – Goldfields Hero

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SAPPER ALFRED JOHN WITHERS 6851 –  2nd Tunnelling Company  Born 27th December 1888 at Nhill, Victoria, to John Alfred Withers and Esther Olive Florence (nee Floyd), Alf Withers enlisted on 6th June 1916 at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.  A miner by trade, he gave his place of residence as 242 Trafalgar Street, Trafalgar, WA, and named […]