Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Daily News Perth 4 March 1930, page 6 50 YEARS WITH THE PAN Last Saw Perth in1891 Blind, with his health failing and with little of this world's goods left, one of Western Australia's oldest prospectors boarded the train at Wiluna … [Continue reading]
Not all of our intrepid pioneers were men, some very courageous and formidable women also made history in the Australian Outback. This is the story of one such lady: THE KIMBERLEY GOLD RUSH by C E. Flinders Colourful Characters Amongst the … [Continue reading]
Shooting Through: Campo 106 escaped POWs after the Italian armistice by Katrina Kittel The stories of WW2 prisoner of war (POW) escapers from a cluster of rice farms in Italy known then as Campo 106 include Indigenous and non-Indigenous … [Continue reading]
The Kalgoorlie Electric Tramway Co was started in 1908. The following is an example of the employment record of three of 517 men (no women are listed) employed by the K.E.T. These original documents were copied by me with the kind permission of Trans … [Continue reading]
AUGUSTUS THORN by Lyn Beard The death of Augustus Thorn does not appear to have been registered and the burial did not show up on any of the usual resources for graves. The only record of his death in 1932 seems to be this small article in The … [Continue reading]
