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 […]

The Great Unwashed Preserver of the Peace:

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Constable JOLLY – Coolgardie, Western Australia 1909 Nick-named ‘The Great Unwashed Preserver of the Peace’ Constable Jolly blamed the scarcity of water for his economical use of it, which in turn, caused some dissatisfaction among his fellow police officers who finally planned to lure him to Silverthorne’s dam and push him in. This drastic step […]

Soldiers of WW1 from the Yilgarn (Southern Cross) district of Western Australia.

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  This slim book was kindly given to me by Sandra Playle and features portraits of service men and women of the Yilgarn District (Southern Cross District of the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia) . In particular there are many excellent photographs of WW1 soldiers and details of which this is one, it is: 771 […]