Dan Shea Headstone : 12-November-2011 Photographs supplied by Derek Graham Memorial headstone in memory of prospector Dan Shea who discovered gold with Paddy Hannan in Kalgoorlie. Dan Shea was born in County Cork, Ireland, and emigrated in 1868 to prospect on the goldfields of Australia and New Zealand. He teamed up with Paddy Hannan and Tom Flanagan […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Phillip Edward VOWELS – Goldfields Hero
08/04/2015 By 5 Comments
Lt. Philip Edward Michael VOWELS (KIA) 11th May 1918 aged 27yrs, 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 1890’s. He is acknowledged in the Coolgardie […]
Spargo’s Reward Gold Mine – Roll of Honour
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Place: Coolgardie, Western Australia, 6429 Orientation: 39 km SW of Kalgoorlie Location: RSL Sub-Branch, Cnr Bayley Street and Ford Street, Coolgardie Western Australia Position: 30 57 29S 121 10 13 The polished wooden board remembers employees of Spargo’s Reward Gold Mine who served in World War II. The mine was about 50 km south of […]
Peter Dennis KAVANAGH – Police Officer
07/04/2015 By 1 Comment
Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty one. How he crushed the gold stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also […]
Arthur Postle – The Crimson Flash
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ARTHUR POSTLE “THE CRIMSON FLASH” WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE Born in 1881 at Springside near Pittsworth in Queensland – Arthur Postle was revered around the globe in the years before World War I as the fastest man alive. He turned professional in 1902 and on 5 December 1906 in Kalgoorlie Western Australia he set a world record beating […]
