William Whitfield Mills – Surveyor-Explorer-Prospector

William W MILLS Surveyor – Explorer – Prospector MILLS William Whitfield – d 15 Aug 1916, 72yrs, at Widgiemooltha, WA, Occ: Pension and former surveyor, Father: Josias MILLS, Mother: Elizabeth Land WHITFIELD, Born: Plymouth, Devon, England in 1844, Cause: Senile decay, Death certified by Charles Mortimore WOOLDRIDGE, Postmaster, Widgemooltha, Reg: 20/1916 Coolgardie, Buried at Widgemooltha […]

Red Hill Cemetery (Kambalda)

Kambalda (Red Hill)  Pioneer Cemetery Beresford Rd, Kambalda L 31.204984 – L 121.650983 5 burials – 1 suicide 1 woman EUPELI George — d 13th June 1904, at the Butterfly Mine, Red Hill, Occ: Miner, 43 Years, Cause: Cardiac Failure, Valvular Disease, a post mortem examination was conducted (not very common on the Goldfields at […]

Tuckanarra Cemetery – now you’re but a memory blurred

Tuckanarra Cemetery -AKA Cork Tree Flat Coordinates: -27.10872, 118.09445 41kms north of Cue Karbar Station 13 Burials – 7 children – 4 women Deserted now, no more your stirred by those in quest of gold. Now you’re but a memory blurred of what you were of old. Yet, though the camp in silence sleeps, Except for songs […]

Alfred Ives – prospector and staunch friend

Sunday Times – Perth – 1 July 1910, page 1 New England ‘Mt Vernon” A Promising Gold Belt told by Alfred Ives Prospector Alfred Ives tripped up the office stairs last Wednesday to offer voluminous details about the development of the New England district, a promising gold-belt located about 40 miles S.S.E. of Wiluna, having […]

Ora Banda Cemetery – of dust and dreams

Ora Banda Cemetery (1913-1925) GPS Coordinates: -30.39500, 121.12400 18 Burials 6 Children, 1 Woman, 5 Mine accidents, 1 Suicide. Lonely they rest, and rest must until The final call to awaken at God’s will Now the Eucalypts on the field that bears their name, they hide beneath the ‘wounds of the golden game’. AHERN Joan – d 2 […]