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William Thomas Maddern – Goldfields Hero

22/10/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

A Goldfield’s Soldier of the Great War –    Lance Corporal William Thomas Maddern, MM  William Thomas MADDERN was born at Woods Point, Victoria in 1889, the son of William Henry and Isabella (nee Shade) Maddern.  At the outbreak of WW1 he was newly married to Evelyn Ann (Crouch) Maddern, they had a young daughter […]

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The Rose Garden Memorial – KRH

28/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Cyril Joseph Della Bosca

Kalgoorlie regional Hospital, St Albans Road, Kalgoorlie Western Australia,  ‘Lat: -30.741389  Long: 121.471111’ (Photographs by Sandy Duncan) Many Readers may be unaware that we have a WW2 memorial at the Rose Garden at the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital at the St Albans Road Entrance. The memorial is in the form of an individual plaque for a […]

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