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Phillip Edward VOWELS – Goldfields Hero

08/04/2015 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, Places, Rolls of Honor Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia, WW1

Horace LAMBLEY – A Forgotten Victim of War

27/03/2015 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Horace LAMBLEY

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 […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places, Rolls of Honor, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense

15/03/2014 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Goss Funeral Directors outside of Queens Church

Issac William Goss – Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910.  The family was well known for their undertaker’s business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. […]

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Filed Under: Church, Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Goss, Undertakers, Western Australia

The Bardoc Murder –

27/11/2013 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The grave of the victim of the unsolved Bardoc murder is on the bank of the creek leading down from Lindsay’s Soak, which is crossed by the road from the Dark Horse (mine) to the Bellvue (mine) about three miles east of Grants Patch. The fenced grave is on the North bank of the creek, […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Bardoc, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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